in
with Your withes; and that hope, I venture to entrent the good offices of Your Excellency to recommend me to the Earl Grey, Her Majesty's Principal Secretory of State for the Colonies, for this appointment._
Feeling that I have
no personal claim either upon this Lordship or Your Excellency!
I trust I may
· lesion
not be deemed egotistical or presumptions in
stating
that I have been in Civil
employ
on
this Island
I may
1841
various
the onerous
in
since the it
outies entrusted to me
the earlier days of the
Colony
Colony Captain Charles Elliot, Sir Henry Pottinger, and Yourself, and I have the proud satisfaction of supposing that their discharge met with thin approval,
are well known to
as well as that
If Your Excellency and
amo the
more insused
to draw this latter
conclusion, from the particularly gratifying distination of being twice selected by Your Welleney
Colonial honetary
to act
during the absence of
Mn Bruse o
Ms
Medical
Certifiente. When to this I add that shave
faithfully