987.
MG
RECL
Bost
decision
was Communicated
do
to V. Reptonstall / Archbishop's Agent in this Country) in a Letter from this Department
dated 18 Oct last. Lord Grey apprehends that the objections of the Treasury to the issue of Passage Allowance in the case to which I have referred may apply with equal force to the Case of
his Lordship Dr. Davis, and he can
therefore only point to
this decision in answer
to your request
on his
behalf. I have …
The Right Honorable Earl Grey.
My Lord,
27, Bucklersbury, City, 19th May, 1845.
On the behalf of a Widow named Mary Hume, I have to request that your Lordship will be kind enough
to direct that this letter, with the accompanying paper writings numbered from 1 to 5 inclusive be laid before some Gentleman in the Office of your Lordship's Department of State, through whom by favor of your Lordship the matter to which they relate may meet with so much of polite consideration as may be deemed fit.
The following is a short Statement of the circumstances under which I have been requested to trouble your Lordship, begging leave most respectfully to refer your Lordship to the accompanying papers for a more precise detail of facts requisite.
In the year 1841 a man named David Hume left England in H.M. Ship "Belleisle" to proceed to Hongkong in the capacity of Book-keeper and Baker to the Mess of the 98th Regiment then ordered to Hongkong, which Regiment he continued to serve until the end of 1842 and eventually established himself as an English Baker in that Island.
David Hume left behind him in England a wife to whom he had been married some years, circumstances on his leaving England compelled her to return into the service of my family in which she had for many years prior to her marriage lived as a Domestic and with which she continues to reside.
David Hume died at Hongkong in 1845 intestate.