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No. 85.

Downing-street, 12th December, 1849. I have received your Despatch, No. 95, of the 14th July last, in ■which you forward a letter from Mr. Brown, the Editor of the Southern Cross newspaper, containing some complaints 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 shews the cause of the error under which you had been led to assume that Mr. Brown, in publishing the letter in his newspaper, had purposely suppressed a portion of it, and it is therefore due to him that he should be relieved from the charge made against him of having done so. You will acquaint Mr. Brown that, with this object, the present correspondence shall be included in the next series of papers which will be laid before Parliament relating to the affairs of New Zealand. You will, however, at the same time point out to him that, while I regret that he should have been exposed to an accusation which has since proved to be without foundation, namely that of having suppressed a portion of the letter in question, the injury is one which he has entirely brought upon himself by the very improper proceeding of publishing, without the consent 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 authorised 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 the honor, &c., (Signed) Grlt. (Copy.) No. 63. Miscellaneous. Government House, Auckland, July 10th, 1850. My Lord, — I have the honor to enclose a letter which has been addressed to your Lordship by Mr. Wm. Brown, of Auckland. As full information regarding the subject to which this letter relates, was contained in the enclosures to my Despatch, No. 95, of the l4th July, 1849, and in an extract therein transmitted from a letter which Mr. Brown had addressed to the Bishop of New Zealand, upon the 27tn June, 1849, it does not appear necessary for me to trouble your Lordship further upon the subject. I have the honor, &c., (Signedj G. Grit. (Copy-) Auckland, June 29th, 1850. My Lord, — On the 12th July last I had the honor of addressing a letter to your Lordship, complaining of an unfounded accusation made against me by His Excellency, Governor Grey, of having omitted an important sentence in a letter of His Excellency to the Lord Bishop of New Zealand, in publishing the same in the Southern Cross newspaper. To that letter I have received (through Hi* Excellency) your Lordship's answer, acquainting me that the correspondence on the subject would, as requested, be included in the next series of papers laid before Parliament, relating to the affairs of New Zealand. In communicating t® me this favourable result, His Excellency further acquaints me that while your Lordship regretted I " should have been exposed to an accusation which has proved to be without foundation, the injury is one which I had entirelv brought upon myself by the very improper proceeding of publishing, without the consent of the writer or the person to whom it was addressed, a letter of which I had obtained