(No. 85.) No. 24. Copy of a Despatch from Earl Grey to Governor Grey.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume VI, Issue 435, 29 August 1851, Page 4

(No. 85.) No. 24. Copy of a Despatch from Earl Grey to Governor Grey.

Downing-ttreet, December 12, 1849 Sir, — I hate received your Despatch, No. 95, of tha 14th of July last, in which you forward a letter from Mr. Brown, the Editor of the ' Southern Crow" newspaper, containing tome complaint! against you with reference to a letter which had been published by him in his journal, having been previously addressed by you to the Bishop of New Zealand on the subject of the Missionary land claims. Your Despatch clearly shows the cause of the error under which you had been led to assume that Mr. Brown, in publishing the letter in hi« news* paper, had purposely suppressed a portion of it ; and it is therefore due to him that he should be relieved from the charge brought against him of having done so. You will acquaint Mr. Brown tint, with this cbject, the present correspondence shall be included in the next series of papers which will be laid before Parliamen^elating to the affairs of New Zealand. You will.'mfwerer, at the stme time point out to him thxt, while I regret that he should hare been exposed to tn accmation which has since proved to be trithout foundation, namely, that of having suppressed a portion of the letter in question, the injury is one which he has entirely brought upon him. ■elf by the very improper proceeding of publishing, without the content either of the writer or the person to whom it was addressed, a letter of which he obtained possession in some surreptitious manner which he still declines to explain. If the publication of the letter had been authorized by those who alone had the right to grant that authority, he would not have been exposed to the charge of which he now complains, and which" is an accidental consequence of his own unjustifiable act. I have, &c, (Signed) Gkbt. Governor Grey, &(3., &C.