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personal application to his Lordship
will be good enough to day so as to favour
me with your opinion of my prospects generally. I have
a wish to go to Hong Kong, but as the climate is said to be bad, I
pitched upon Singapore. However, on account of its distance, it might
be life inconvenient to say the least of it, as some others have found.
I was by hay seriously ill, but I trust you will pardon this liberty
I remain your faithfully obliged & humble servant, William McMechan
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