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 versant with the main incidents in that history, long before he found himself in a position to commit both cases for trial in the Supreme Court.

But Mr. Davies has publicly acknowledged, that, but for the skill, patience, and zeal displayed by Mr. May, from the outset of the case to the end, complete justice would not in all probability have been done.

For Mr. Caldwell, J.P., instead of lending his services, as a detective, to the Government, did his best to defeat the prosecution. It was he who found bail for the prisoner—and his own servant, one Sze-Kai, but recently out of a debtor's prison, was recommended by him to be Mah Chow Wong's responsible bailsman, and on that recommendation, accepted—a fact found by the Commission. It was by him that Mah Chow Wong's witnesses were marshalled. It was he who procured his own attorney to appear for the culprit, instructed him, and assisted him at consultations. It was by him, in fine, sitting on the bench as justice of the peace, that attempts were made, at an early stage of the first case, to prime the chief magistrate with thoughts favourable to the prisoner; until Mr. Davies found it necessary to remind him, that the alleged Chinese affinity with that prisoner, through his (Mr. Caldwell's) former concubine, Awoon, made it highly indelicate to be there sitting on the bench at all, whilst Chinamen were amongst the spectators, and, on the same ground, caused him to be warned to stay away from that bench during the subsequent examinations.

The books and papers of the pirate had been seized in his. They contained numerous entries, of Mr. Caldwell's participation in the secret business and profits of the pirate. There were entries of moneys