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CHIEF MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 16th June, 1856. SIR-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 427, of the 19th of June,-
The first three paragraphs have my most respectful atten-
tion.
With reference to the fourth, I have merely to observe that His Excellency has been misinformed in respect to "a war of mutual attack and defence being carried on between my- self and the Attorney General, or the statement is only true with this limitation, that the attack is the Attorney Gen- eral's, the defence to that attack is mine. With reference to the scandal, I lament it, as sincerely as His Excellency, but I leave the Attorney General who has provoked that scan- dal, and whose sole work and uttering it has been from first to last, to justify it to Her Majesty's Government as I shall be prepared to do, in proper time and place hereafter, while I am ready now to meet the Attorney General's im- pending attack, and all its consequences, in whatever form they may present themselves.
Sincerely lamenting a state of things which my conscience acquits me of having done anything by word or deed to inaugurate. I have the honor to be, &c.
W. H. MITCHELL
The Honorable W. J. Mercer, Colonial Secretary.
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