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specific circumstance, of which I understood him to complain – I have never had any communication with him upon the subject; and when he was I met him he was in Sydney a few days since , I met him, by accident, (an association which probably gave [indecipherable] to the reports) at the tea table of Mr Justice Stephen, in company with the rest of his numerous Mr Stephen’s family, and at no other time.

Having, I hope, satisfied Your Excellency of the unfounded nature of the report, I must beg that Your Excellency will inform me who it was that might by communicated to your Excellency mentioned it to my prejudice, to prejudice me in the opinion of Your Excellency -