appointed Chief Magistrale of Hunghing, and when the
Cameroniaus avere.
in
engaged
operations against Centur
Sir Ster
under Ford (then sir Gough, I solicited ten days leave of absence from any
Civil duties here, in order
that I might join my Regiment in service.
This favour however soos denied me by Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary,
showi
the enclosure berewith.
transmitted -
After the Chinese Bar- when hovers out, pranctions
were mort properly awarded.
to many
I had not the
Carot the good
fortune to be thius noticed =
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I made no application for them,
but I have doubt that, had I not been forbidden to join ing Regiment before Canton Imight
Licut Colonel of
have been
ex
1843, instead
of
1851, as well as
as
taised, like several. of my juniors,
dignity of a Companion of
to the
the Birth -
I trust then that I may
be allowed to
it was
for
the good
that of
Her.. of War
Majesty's service generally that detained in Henghing by
Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, it
direct hardship as I feet-
Z
it to have been a mortification,
that I was excluded,
6 from promotion
and honors, which I was not in
permitted the opportunity of