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the retractations I did make to

bring about the withdrawal of

that case,

last, acting

I was, from first to

under the instructions

and with the approval of His Excellency the Governor, that in allowing

the case to be withdrawn

I was sacrificing my

interests which demanded a

public inquity

to the interests

of His Excellency the Governor,

and that, having made this

sacrifice,

inquiry of

I look to the confidential

the Executive Council

to vindicate my

conduct.

In order, therefore, that

I may not unjustly be left under an imputation of which I desire

to clear myself, I beg

ence more

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to appeal to the Executive Council

for an immediate and detailed

beg to submit that

inquiry.

I beg

this might be done without reference

to Mr. Johnson's having declined to prosecute me before

that

Council, because, if the statements

have above made can be called

into question, this Excellency the Governor is free to frame this

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charge against me that I deliberalny and offerially stated, as I de

making

state in this latter, that in certain statements to Mr. Johnson

and in making

certain retractations

to Mr. Hayllar I was acting

throughout