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facts will be brought to the know's ledge of the Secretary of State upon

of justice I rely,

whose sense and who will I have

deal with this

manev

doubt

case in such I

as will vindicate my

conduct throughout those Proceedings.

Thanks only to the good

sense and firmness of the majority

of the from

guny,

arv

I have been so

ved

adverse verdict, the :quence of which world have been that long before the Public could learn the rights of the quiation, I should have been stigmatized far and wide

as-a

violator of constitutional rights

and

of the liberty of the subject, and as guilty of an abrise

abrise of my

Public

Anections, for which I had been mulated in a Penally of £.500.

As it is, I believe the I

Public who do not know how I

errmeno

down

are the Doctrines laid

by the

that I

AM

the Chief Justice, suppose

guilty of

a violation

of the Law but that under the

"let me

-particular circumstances the guny off" by a majority of one. I chint, therefore, that I

have

reason for grave

and that I

am

can

plant,

entitled to ask

for the Protection of the Government

against a repetition

on the part

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