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QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD: MOAB LAST WORDS.
23d August 1852. Sra—Mr. Freeman's original charge against the Commissioners was that they "were not ashamed to refer to a transaction which had best be buried in oblivion"—i. e. as he explained it, a College election where it was pro- posed to prefer a candidate without examination, from presumably corrupt motives.
He, now not only withdraws the imputation of motives, but confesses him- self ignorant of the most important circumstances of the case, such as the conduct of the arraigned minority and the antecedents of the candidates. I leave it to your readers to decide whether the whole gravamen of the accusation is not abandoned ; and if so, whether an apology is not due from the accuser.
[In a dispute which concerned the honour and the feelings of individuals as well as a public interest, we have been slow to shut our columns against any reasonable explanation : but the discussion is exhausted1 and we must now stop. In taking leave we must not conceal our own decided opinion, that the questioned transaction was altogether creditable to the gentleman pro- posed for election and to those who proposed him.—En.]
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