To any impartial person acquainted with the history of New Zealand, and with Mr. McLean's acts and proceedings during the time he has been administering native affairs, he cannot be accused by his fellow colonists of withholding any information which it was necessary to impart, in reference to his purchases. Negotiations by Mr. McLean were invariably conducted in the most frank, open, and public manner, often at large meetings of both Maoris and Europeans; and no one was ever prevented from obtaining as full a knowledge of his proceedings, if they wished to do so, as he himself possessed. It is true that he is not a likely person to have wasted much of his time in either writing, or speaking of