of my resignation, in aletter of 8th July last which I requested for Davis to formbed toties lots which I cannot afford after
Save therefore subjected to asevere pecuniary Lordship.
devotion
an buttring With reference to the 2nd point my
of twenty years in laboriously " present Circumstances or position, Illey -pensive exertions for the National wat to state that it will be seen in my correlpon (as shown in the accompanying Gremauling dence with Goo= Davis insune July
4, what is of still greater consequence to that the tendered resignation of my office me, my conduct in China is rendered- was in obedience to what I conscientiously
questionable. belcined to be an i
argent sense of publiedetty
&
last
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to scrutinize, so can do the originating conduct, _ & to report whether which hasbeen
Suspeitfully entrent Mr Gladstone that the resignation was constrained because to permit a
to permit a Committee of three gentle Goo Davis refused
me dix months furlough
- men to examine the whole of my (which it was in his power to grant although
offered to resign allsalary & yet preserve proceedings in China, sigheavy
motives for my securities to the Queen ; & that my far as human beings resignation was conditional & deppenduct
Jam deserving of the injury - my conduct being disapproved in England.
inflicted on me forccdedoouring to amend The
acceptance of a resignation this what were denied National errors, compulsorily wrung from
me without any magnitude, you which if I had remained enquiry or investigation maybe deemed untermount to a declarations that my conduct, considered myself unworthy,
of the motives in which it Originated, did not.
érrons of
silent & inactive Schould indeed have
cayself unworthy ofccuplaquet justify the stiff which I fett compelled to take. of any kind in Aacsowite.