Note 119 — APPENDIX II. LORD GAMBIER’S SECOND DESPATCH IGNORING MY SERVICES ALTOGETHER.

It was discovered by His Majesty’s law officers that these few hints, or “Minutes of Case,” given to my solicitors, at their own solicitation, preparatory to drawing the brief, furnish a contradiction to my assertion in the House, that I gave no instructions to counsel. I was desirous of giving these learned gentlemen the full benefit of the discovery by making them public, when I published this Address to the Electors of Westminster, but was prevented by a suggestion that the Address, with the other important documents annexed, were already too long for a communication to the newspapers; and so the editor of one of those prints appears to have thought, for he omitted two very important and inoffensive paragraphs. As the same reasons no longer exist, I insert the “Minutes of Case” between the Address and the questions to the solicitors.