" that I embarked on board the Contract
"racket in July, and the reduced rate is
"only applicable to home passages during the "mouths of Auquet, September, betober,
November and December".
The principle on which I founded my objection - namely, that having left china during the hot mouths, when the
rate
of passage moncy was lower than during the cold season, I ought to be charged two-third of the lower and not tion-thirds of the higher rate _ is thus, I
Alu
happy to find, fully admitted; but it is subjoined that the reduced rate now not applicable to the mouth of dig, in which I embarked, and that therefore
the higher face...
I must
pay
If this
140
were so, I could not with
any chew of Justice make the claim:
but Irespectfully call
your
attention to
the fret, apparently overloked, and which the enclosed letter of this date from Mr Walker, the Agent of the Peninsular aud Oriental Company at this place, will prove, that although the reduced rates from Indin to bugland during the
were, as
only, those
Your
1852
year letter states, applicable
to the months from August to december from China to burglared included
England the mouth of July, in which I left. That such was the case, I had full experience, having paid passage surney at the reduced rates for my wife, three children and an European Servant, who all accompanied