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f. om the commission of the peace stood ,uiscentralicteka,
my co-Directors feared my remainin
tein:ltari fiction.
would be an injury to the Society, and erAfere Itinting,tho-4
propriety of my retiring or setting myself •..ight.ih,thijoubliii>
mind. This letter I enclosed next mornlitetbfrthp:Lord
cellor in the following:— - • I
H. C. MORETON DYER, ESQ., TO THE OE:
Devonshire-place House, Sun. ,-JAkrle 13.1 0:44,
My Lord—l enclose you a letter which 1/4.; vedlasgr ii
I take the liberty of doing so to showy
sential it is to me to set myself right in MbE ti,mhb,
and therefore to urge upon your Lordship a consideration aiAV
my last communication to you. I cat not believe that, though
your Lordship has felt it a duty to remove me from the magis-
tracy, you would wish that removal to be the cause of lasting
misery to me. My Lord, three lines from your Lordship's
pen will insure me from charges of dishonour and other false re-
ports which are crushing me. Throwing myself upon your
Lordship's feelings,
I remain your Lordship's most faithful servant,
H. C. MORETON DYER.
P.S. According to the public reports of the Magistrates'
meetings, I now clearly stand charged with having been re•
moved for bribery. May I beg the return of the enclosed?
FROM THE LORD CHANCELLOR TO H. C. 'MORETON DYER,
ESQ.

The Lord Chancellor presents his compliments to Mr.
Dyer, and returns the letter from the Secretary to the
London and Westminster Life Assurance Society. The
Lord Chancellor much regrets Mr. Dyer's removal from
the commission of the peace should have produced effects
painful to him beyond what the grounds of such removal would
justify. Ih the letter communicating to Mr. Dyer the removal
of his name from the commission, the Lord Chancellor stated
the true reasons for the proceeding, and does not feel jus-
tified in entering more fully into the subject. That letter
did not express any opinion as to Mr. Dyer's motives, but
.rested his removal from the commission upon the admitted
iract of his having held such communication with a prisoner
under sentence, as Mr. Dyer himself admitted to have taken
place. Any inference, therefore, which may have been drawn
from the fact of his removal beyond what arises from Mr. Dyer's
statement in his own letter, would, in the opinion of the Lord
Chancellor, be improperly drawn, and would be the subject of
regret to him. I
Bruton-street, June 22, 1841.
FROM Si. C. MORETON DYER, ESQ., TO JOHN EDMOND, ESQ.
Devonshire-place House, June 27, 1841.
Sir—Finding that the impressions on the public mind as
to the immediate cause of my late removal from the commis-
sion of the peace for Middlesex and Westminster, and the facts
.connected with it, are not only highly erroneous, but very pre-
judicial to my character, I feel I am,
. in justice to myself and
my friends, bound to give some explanation of the matter. In
so doing the first step which suggests itself to rule is thus to
request yon will do me the favour of stating what really took
Place between us on the one and only occasion upon which we
rionversed on the subject of Mr. Medhurst's release,
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient and faithful servant,
John Edmond, Esq. H. C. MORETON DYER.
FROM JOHN EDMOND, ESQ. TO H. C. MORETON DYER, ESQ.
Argyll Chambers, Argyll-place, June 28, 1841.
Sir—ln reply to your letter of yesterday, I beg to say that
on a former occasion, during the time that an investigation
' took place, I then considered it my duty to refuse to commu-
nicate the particulars of the conversation you referred to, so
now I must also decline to alter my determination.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
To. H. C. Moreton Dyer, Esq. JOHN EDMOND.
FROM H. C. SLORETON DYER, ESQ., TO JOHN EDMOND, ESQ.
Devonshire-place House, June, 1841.
Sir—l deeply regret that the circumstances of the case
should make you feel it your duty to determine to be silent
upon it. Having, however, the highest opinion of your ho-
nour, I confess 1 no right to find fault with that de-
termination, or to dispute your justice or discretion in form-
ing it ; but I am sure you will pardon me for pressing most
seriously upon you the urgent necessity of at least inform-
ing me, for the satisfaction of my friends and the public if
anything passed between us on the occasion alluded to in my
last letter, which was dishonourable or discreditable to me
as a Magistrate or a man of honour, or from which you drew
an inference that I was to derive any pecuniary or other
advantage from Mr. Medhurst's release.
I have the honour to be, Sir, &e.
John Edmond, Esq. H. C. MORETON DYER.
FROM JOHN EDMOND, ESQ., TO 11. C. MORETON DYER, ESQ.
Argyll Chambers, Argyll-place, July 5, 1841.
Sir—l should have earlier answered your letter, but being
out of town prevented my doing so. I have no objection to
state, that on the occasion alluded to in your letter, nothing
occurred injurious to your honour or character, nor did I infer
that you were to derive any advantage or emolument from the
transaction ; my impression was, that your motives were those
of humanity. I must now beg positively to decline any further
communication on this subject.
1 have the honour to be, Sir, &c.,
H. C. Moreton Dyer, Esq. JON EDMOND.

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