Separate

I have had the honor to receive your confidential
despatch of the 12th of January forwarding copy of one
from the Governor of British Honduras stating on the authority
of Mr Hugh Austin, that Dr Campbell had said that he had
attended Captain Holmes for delirium tremens in Jamaica.
Thus, after many months, Lieutenant Governor Austin, through
the researches of his brother, is enabled to shew that his
charge against Captain Holmes is not absolutely groundless.

You, Sir, however, did not require this roundabout
hearsay evidence. I also attended Captain Holmes in his
day's illness in Jamaica and I informed you of the worst
complexion it would bear in my despatches of the 30th
of August and the 2nd of February. Why has not, in
fairness, Mr Austin forwarded a written statement of the
case from Dr Campbell?