“Your Excellency has also not been pleased to comply with my repeated subsequent requests for an audience.
“Your Excellency therefore has placed an official who was favourably known to the Government (these are Your Excellency’s own words!), one who for seventeen years served the State in these colonies, one who not only had done no wrong, but who had even with unprecedented self-denial aimed at doing right and was ready to stake everything for honour and duty . . . such an one Your Excellency has placed below criminals. For to criminals one gives at least a hearing.
“That Your Excellency has been misled with regard to me, is a thing I can understand. But I do not understand why Your Excellency should have refused to take the opportunity of escaping from such misguidance.
“To-morrow Your Excellency departs from here, and I may not let you leave without once more having said that I have done my duty, entirely my duty, with discretion, with restraint, with humaneness, with gentleness and with courage.
“The reasons on which the disapprobation expressed in Your Excellency’s Cabinet-massive of 23rd March is based are entirely fictitious and mendacious.
“This I can prove, and I should already have done so if Your Excellency had been pleased to grant me half an hour’s audience. If Your Excellency had been able to spare one half hour to do justice!
“This has not been the case. A respectable family has thereby been reduced to poverty. . . .
“About this, however, I do not complain.
“But Your Excellency has sanctioned: the system of abuse of authority, of theft and murder, under which the poor Javanese are crushed, and it is this of which I complain.
“This cries to heaven!
“There is blood on the money saved from your Indian salary thus received, Excellency!
