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me

the statement that my memory was at fault in, permitting

to say that what I appear to have told Mr. Johnson and others was so told to them by the positive instructions of the Governor.

10.

Finally I beg to

submit to Your Lordship that throughout this correspondence I have scrupulously refrained from divulging any confidential communication which His Excellency the Governor made to me whilst I was his Private Secretary, except those statements

which

which His Excellency subsequently

instructed me to repeat to others and which were necessary for

my defence, and that I even then refrained from mentioning

absolutely

many other facts and abstained from referring to other persons, it not being necessary for my defence, although I would have considerably strengthened my position by doing so. Painful

as it is to me to have to

say

so much, on this unpleasant subject, I felt it my duty to

reputation,

to

my

in the Service and

my own

position

to

my family to say

what I

which

have said in these papers