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for the sake of perspicuity I commence
this address with a statement of my
past services and present position.
I have been now 42
years in the service of the Crown the whole of which long period I have passed uninterruptedly on Foreign Service in India
and China.
My Military Services are well known at the Horse Guards and for ready information on this head I may be allowed to refer to my Memorial of June 1846, addressed to the then Military Secretary to His Grace the Commander in Chief.
I was engaged with the enemy in the Nepaul War of 1814 and 1815 the Mahratta War of 1817 and 1818 and in the Investment and capture of Bhurtpore, in 1826 where I was slightly wounded and had the honor of being particularly mentioned in Sir Thomas Reynell's Despatch to the Commander in Lord Combermere.
Chief
On the breaking out of the Chinese War, I was nominated without solicitation of mine by Sir Jasper Nicolls to the Head of the Staff of the Chinese Expedition as Deputy Adjutant General an appointment which was intimated to me in March 1840 by Colonel John Caard who was then Military Secretary to Sir Jasper and is still alive to speak to this fact.
Unfortunately the Officers named to fill the Offices of Deputy and Quarter...