No. 4

Adverting to my Despatch No 44, of the 23rd August last, and to
Your Grace's Despatch No 101, of the 2nd June 1862, in which were
transmitted for report certain letters from Mr E.E. Langford,
formerly resident at Esquimalt, Vancouver's Island, containing
statements affecting various Officers of my Government, and the
administration of Justice within the Colony, I have now the honor to
forward herewith a report from Mr Cameron, the Chief Justice, upon
Mr Langfords complaint in respect of certain proceedings in the
Supreme Court, accompanied by copy of minutes of evidence, and of the
Judges notes of the trial in which Mr Langford was concerned.
I have also the honor to enclose the reports I have received from Mr
Begbie, the Judge of British Columbia, and from Mr Good, the Chief
Clerk in the Office of the Colonial Secretary of British Columbia, in
reply to the particular charges preferred by Mr Langford against
them.

2. Your Grace desires me in forwarding these Documents to accompany
them with my own observations. It seems to me, however, that the
Documents in question when read with Mr Langford's correspondence,
and considered in connection, therewith, and with the report
furnished by Mr Cary, forwarded in my Despatch of this date, No 3,
so clearly disclose the character and evident object of Mr Langford,
that it is unnecessary for me to occupy Your Grace's time by adding
the result of my general experience of Mr Langford during the period
that he was a resident of Vancouver's Island: but I deem it right,
nevertheless, to observe that when I appointed Mr Langford a Justice
of the Peace I had no choice of Candidates. He was the first settler
who could consistently be appointed to that office, and the
circumstance upon which he lays so much stress of having filled the
responsible position of Chairman of Quarter Sessions, was simply the
result of his seniority: and I must also observe that had I been in
possession of all the circumstances now disclosed, I should have felt
it my duty prior to Mr Langford's departure from Vancouver's Island
to strike his name off the Commission of the Peace.