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the documents that tw. Smith requested

me to send to

you,

AL

letter

of his in

(

which he charges Bishop Raimondi, a venerable and highly respected Gentleman, and the hand of the Roman Catholic Mission in this Colony.

his countenance to

with

giving "improper and untrue statements,

I have thought it only fair not to

allow such a charge to go forth

giving

the Bishop

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without

opportunity of endeavouring to vindicate himself, and I therefore cent him a cory of this statement, and some other extracts in which reference is made to him or to the Convent that is

under his ease;

and I have the hover

to lay before you a copy of a

Memorandurn dated the 5t Eustank

in which the Bishop

auswers Mu

Surith's statements about him.

5.

for from the Bisha

Countenancing improter and untrue ¿Externents, it is, unfortunately, but

too true that Mr Cecil &. Amitin department Liccused some homes to public prostitutes in the

Strut! very where the Catholic Cathedral Stands,

and that five

or sin of those houses (one of them being only three doors from the Stichop's residence, and that were continued by Mr. Smith to S

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