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pleasant affair I have recently brought under your Lordship's consideration, and, notwithstanding very great provocation, I have, far as rested with myself, declined to pumil the recent discussion in

the Legislative Council to any personal phase.

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I rely upon your Lordship's decisions on the questions, Iam about to leave in your hands, to

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protect freedom of debats in the bouncil and the exercise of the

right of its members to criticise

openly

family

and

the

measures and

policy of the Exnutive Government of the levlony. I moreover trust that Juran

Lordship will lay down such Explicit rules, for the guidance of procudings in debate,

as will

prevent in future members of the bouncil from having to choose between the alternative positions of having to remain silent on subjects on which they feel it to be their duty to speak, or of being forced

into

wrangling

tion with the chair.

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on so called

points