CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9] — Page 549

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Mr. Bowdler somewhat barely. Mr Bowdler however having received no numbered list of species from Mr Ford, and both Mr Brencau and Mr Bowdler having emphatically affirmed the impossibility of the large losses alleged by Mr Ford, I felt unable to admit the charge, and I should still hope to have found the Gardens in a flourishing condition.

I am happily able from personal knowledge to corroborate the real facts given by Mr Bowdler in the memorandum attacked (Appendix I) by which Your Lordship will see that Mr Ford has also in this instance been misinformed.

2.1. Such charges are founded on some misapprehension. A charge mentioned in paragraph 20, relating to a gentleman's having presented a valuable collection of plants to the Gardens which he subsequently found dead or dying, although similar plants presented to private individuals were found thriving, I cannot trust myself to dwell on the injustice which has been inflicted upon me by the publication of this Report containing charges at once humiliating and injurious without previous enquiry into their truth, and by the use which has been made of the Government Gazette, which is the official history of the Colony, for gibbetting me as the head of the large department over which I preside before the officers of the Government.

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546 Liv Mr. Bowdler somewhat barely. Mr Bowdler however having received no numbered list of species from Mr Ford, and both Mr Brencau and Mr Bowdler having emphatically affirmed the impossibility of the large losses alleged by Mr Ford, I felt unable to admit the charge, and I should still hope to have found the Gardens in a flourishing condition. I am happily able from personal knowledge to corroborate the real facts given by Mr Bowdler in the memorandum attacked (Appendix I) by which Your Lordship will see that Mr Ford has also in this instance been misinformed. 2.1. Such charges are founded on some misapprehension. A charge mentioned in paragraph 20, relating to a gentleman's having presented a valuable collection of plants to the Gardens which he subsequently found dead or dying, although similar plants presented to private individuals were found thriving, I cannot trust myself to dwell on the injustice which has been inflicted upon me by the publication of this Report containing charges at once humiliating and injurious without previous enquiry into their truth, and by the use which has been made of the Government Gazette, which is the official history of the Colony, for gibbetting me as the head of the large department over which I preside before the officers of the Government.
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546

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Mr. Bowdler somewhat berally. Mr Bowdler however having received.

no numbered list of species from por Ford, and both Mr berncau

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having emphatically, affirmed,

impossibility of the mange losses alleged by M. Fords, I

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misapprehension .

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a valuable collection of plants. to the Gardens which he subse

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found

I cannot trust myself to dwell

the injustice which has been in- -flicted upon me by the publication. of this Report containing charges

at once

humiliating

and to

injurions without previous enquiry into their truth, and by the use which has been mades of the Govern. ment Gazetted which is the official

history of the Colony chicles of gibbetting

me

as the

be

before the

officers of the large department over

which

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