all lagards to procure if possible some situation from which I could by increased labour, and even at increased personal risk get a larger income to enable me to pay all I owed, the exchange to Hong King
8 of mind was offered to me : - Its improved healthiness, the cheap =
of living, and its peciomary athieutiges.
nets
me.
Influenced by
:s and the more
In this state
a.
were mentioned as strons inducements to
them
& by the desire to free myself from debt. I accepted it, readily because so distant a move would not permit
removal of my books and furniture de, would "therefore compel a sale, and so enable. me to face myself from pecussiory respon. sibility and even as
as I expected, to leave.
!
G.
handsome scorpters.
When the fact of sny appointment was
made tolerably exstain to me,
errtain to me, I looked
live
more closely into the extent
of mase. found :bilities, and as is too often the case, them
greater than I had anticipated. However even so,
if my property has sold well. I cannot be £200 in debt _ if it. has sold only tolerably. I may be debred to the extent of £ 300 of £350. but if badly I may possibly
owe £400 or £450.
be in
And of
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this amount I cannot recall
to mind that a
Anch
single debt has been con- tracted either from improper elly_indul_ genre, or unnecessary extests were greater
extravaga When I found that's my debts were in omorant than I had anticipated, in order to prevent the anxieties . of my creditors (if each feelings existed) Ivol. centarit, proposed to Mr Lamb, a most respectable solicitor in Andover, profes – sional and parliamentary agent for Mr. Cubitt, the member for that town that I should transfer
over to him my furniture books, plate, and the monty being
to me
I requested
to dispose of for their benefit. him in the event of the debts exceeding the assets, to draw up a legal document binding
me to pay all just demands me with 5 preent interest until . all were finally and fully
settled. This
upon
he did, and the state
8.
the matter at
ange of
present is that it is within the range possibility that I may
toin now be free
from all debt - if not that I may
more certainly
one
year.
be so.
two years,
in three years.
but most certainly
I did. leave my parist
but it was late in the
on he
Sunday,
Evening.
to enable