Sni THOMAS STAMFORD RAFFLES, 29 
fidence of liin fiileliiy, "My caiisp, my honour^ my 
public reputoiion ami private ctiaracitr aie now be- 
forf* t\io Hupreme govern tinei it, and I only ask a patient 
hearing. Errors in juelirment may be fciund in the 
complicated administration with wbicli I am en< 
tru-'*te(l ; measures of polii'y depend in a consider- 
able degree oti opinion, and there may be some dif- 
ference of opinion perhaps, with regard to thone 
which have been adopted hy this government ; but 
the accii>atiotis against my moral channi'icr mmt 
be determined by facts, and on this ground 1 will 
challentje my accusers to produce any one act of 
goveniment, in which I have been actuiuerl by cor- 
rupt motivcK, or guided by vlewa of sinister advan- 
tage to niVM'If." 
In addition to the feelings of a character bh- 
deaervfdly attacked, were now arUled those of deep 
affliction in itie loi^s of hss tlearest connections. 
Soon after the delivery of the charge?i, he suffered 
a severe bereavement in the death of Mrs I{jiflle«, 
wiiicli waH followed by the iotelligencfl of the de- 
cease of Lord Minio, to whom he miLdit Ite Fattt to 
be indebted for all liia worldly prospi'rity» beasdes the 
free intercourse antl sympathy of frientbhip. He 
had, luiwevpr, on receipt (>f the char^jes, and imme- 
diately liefore theae great losses, written out replies, 
which, though they could not, after the institimon of 
the proceedino[H by General Gillespie, be taken as ex- 
culpation, site wed plainly to his judges that little 
was to be dreaded in Mr liaBies^ from a double or 
