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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

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page 25

These are some of the charges, are they "extravagant?" Have any of them been disproved, or even explained.

As to the "inset "—I can only reply that Mr. Mills stated in this letter of May 1870 that he had obtained the consent of the other Directors, naming them, and only wanted that of Mr. Isaac and my brother, which they declined to give; and that I can, if it be desirable, give the name of the man, still here, whom Mr Mills employed to negotiate this bribery business; and, further, that Mr. Mills at about that time owned 1-16th of the whole of

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the Harbour Company, and was therefore not at all so loyal alone to the interests of others as he states. I cannot say and do not like to think, what his plans then may have boon for the future. I only know what the result was, the clever diagrams on p. 37, show that.

If I have wronged or misjudged Mr. Mills, misrepresented and insulted him, as he says, and made false exaggerated and misleading statements, I exceedingly regret it, and will most gladly and with deep contrition retract anything I have written (p. 9) if only it can be pointed out to me where I have erred, and where I have committed the wrong.