would be both legally and morally bruding I resume that official engagements between publie junctimonies
are not less sheud
than those of a private nature,
and viewing the matter in this
Stis hwcelleney's
light I rely upon Kindneu in wconumending, both
as relates to the future and the part
“
restoration of the emolument
2300 per annum the
F
sum hitherto
pared to the person holding my appointment.
His breelleney will readily appreciate the peculiar hardship of my case, when I inform him that induced by the higher pay of my present
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appointment. Irelinquishedd position at home under the Home
the remuneration
Office
was
of
which
hardly inferion to the reduced
sum of my present one, cxpecially when it is remembered that with my home appointment ! abandoned a position very superion
to Honghong as respects the
Comforts and
It appears
cconomy of living
to me indeed that
£200 per annum with high rents, dear provisions, subject to the charges of Superannuation
deduction and Income Pay with searecly afford
the
means
of
subsistence, it will not certainly