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 the Doctor's own words, and had been a bad character for years—that Mr. Caldwell's alleged intimacy with him was equally notorious—that Mr. Caldwell had made strong efforts to obtain the pirate's pardon, but had been foiled by the production before the Executive Council of certain papers found on a pirate named Beaver, during an inquiry into the items of Mr. May's memo. taken from the papers previously seized in the hong of Mah-Chow Wong the pirate—that, but for Mr. May's memoranda having been produced, the Governor would have pardoned Mah-Chow Wong long before the production of Beaver's papers—Mr. Caldwell was accordingly directed to examine the papers themselves, and compare them with the newspaper report—that Mr. Mongan was merely to assist him—that Mr. Caldwell reported that the papers did not implicate even Mah-Chow Wong, much less himself—that Mr. May's memoranda being then produced in Council, and Mr. Mongan being unable to say more than that his own examination of the papers had been very "cursory," a new inquiry was ordered to be made by his official superior, Mr. Wade—that Mr. Wade's report was either never made, or never produced—that he (Dr. Bridges) had been asked what was to be done with Mah-Chow Wong's papers—that he had ordered them to be burned; and that, as to Mr. May's memoranda, he never knew what had become of them from the time Mr. May put them into his hands. He admitted that, notwithstanding the finding of the Caldwell Committee, his notorious connection with the pirate, and all the reports of the various departments—especially from the Chief Magistrate, of a date subsequent to the Caldwell Commission inquiry, and which were read in Court to him—Mr. Caldwell had not been called to account by Government, because he had done nothing worthy of being called to account for.

The evidence of the second witness (Mr. Mongan, the Assistant Chinese Secretary), proved that Mr. Caldwell examined part of the papers without their having first gone through his hands—that when the papers were received, one of the packages containing them had been opened—that it was his conviction that the papers had been tampered with, and some abstracted, before they came under his charge—that his impression was, that the motive for so tampering with them was the removal of the evidences of guilt against Mah-Chow Wong, whose release it was Mr. Caldwell's object to effect—that he had applied to the Governor as to what was to be done with the papers—that the Governor referred him to Dr.