106288520

Sydney New South Wales
May 14th 1830.

Sir,
The event of my Court Martial being at
length made known, I conceive there will be no
impropriety in addressing you on the subject of it,
from which I have hitherto refrained from motives
of delicacy to your situation in the Colony –
You will Sir, remember that you addressed a
letter to the Governor respecting myself about the
period of my Trial, which was afterwards given
in evidence against me without any explanation
of the circumstances which gave rise to a correspon=
=dence so singular – I am advised that this
letter afforded the strongest proof adduced to
convict me of the first charge laid against me,
and I feel convinced that Your Honor will do me
the justice to supply the want which feelings
of consideration towards you alone prevented me
from supplying at the time by adducing
you as a Witness on my behalf at the Court
Martial.
I now therefore request as an
Act of Justice that Your Honor will supply me
with a copy of any correspondence which passed
between the Governor and yourself respecting
me, as it may prove highly essential to my
case to show that your letter was not a
gratuitous communication, as also that
Your
His Honor
Chief Justice Forbes