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have given rise to the most loyal and valuable address which you present to me. [Pardon, Monseigneur, apres lecture des versets 28, 29, du chap. I., et versets 17, 18, 19, du chap. III., de la Genese, favorisez's'il vous plait l' exploitation de l' activite de tous ces gaillards la, par la Charrue: il n'y a pas mal de terres ici, et bien pour tout le monde. Audaces fortuna juvat.]
"I desire to govern by the people, and through the people: and by the people I mean through the intelligence of the people. [Elle est fameuse, Monseigneur l' intelligence de ceux, qui vous ont conseille l' affaire de Ballaarat! surtout in farce odieuse de haute-trahison!]
"In Ballaarat it was not a particular law, against which objection was raised, nor was there a particular complaint made. [Oh, pardon, Monseigneur: ou l' on vous a toujours mal informe; ou l' on vous a souvent cache la verite: malheureusement, cela n'a pas beaucoup change meme aujourd'hui. Vide The Times, Ballaarat, Saturday, September 29, 1855, and Saturday, November 10th—Local Court.]
.... "It was not exactly the licence fee, that caused the outbreak, though that was made the 'nom de guerre,' the 'cheval de bataille,' this was not the real cause. I consider that the masses were urged on by designing men who had ulterior views, and who hoped to profit by anarchy and confusion. [Comment se fait-il Monseigneur que vous mettez le prix de £500 sur la tete du chef de ces blagueurs du Star Hotel, a Ballaarat; et puis vous laissez courir le malin a son aise! Avez-vous, oui ou non, Monseigneur, accorde votre pardon a M'Gill? et les autres Americains donc?]
"Then we have active, designing, intriguing foreigners, who also desire to bring about disorder and confusion." [Cependant, moi, bon garcon apres tout, et d'une ancienne famille Romaine, j'ai ete VOLE sous arret au Camp de Ballaarat par VOS gens et avre impunite, Monseigneur. Vous me faites l' honneur d'avouer par votre lettre la chose, mais vous n' avez point fait de restitution. Ce n' est pas comme cela que j' entends le vieux mot Anglais, Fair-play.]
Hence, I had better address myself to the five hundred gentlemen, who belong to the brave Melbourne people after all.
Gentlemen,
Five hundred copies of this work, which costs me an immense labour, for the sake of the cause of the truth, will be left with
Messrs. MUIR, BROTHERS AND CO.,
Merchants, Flinders-lane, Melbourne—of the same firm much respected on Ballaarat, to whom I am personally known long ago, having been their neighbour on the Massacre-hill, Eureka. Ten shillings is my price for each copy: and, as Messrs. Muir render this service to me gratuitously, so I hereby authorise them to keep half-a-crown from each ten shillings, and in the spirit of St. Matthew, verses 1, 2, 3, 4, chap, vi., share said half-crowns in the following proportion: one shilling to the Benevolent Asylum; one shilling to the Melbourne Hospital, and sixpence to the Miners' Hospital, Ballaarat.
I hope thus to understand "Fair-play" better than Toorak.
I have not yet done with His Excellency's answer.
The part which the bankers, merchants, tradesmen and others in Melbourne and in Geelong [pas a Ballaarat, Monseigneur], have taken in coming forward to support me, I shall be careful to represent properly at home, where perhaps these occurrences may attract more attention than they deserve. [Pour votre bonheur, Monseigneur, Sebastopol leur donne assez d' occupation pour le moment.]}}
