the good fortune to be thus noticed.
I made no application for them but I have no doubt that, had I not been forbidden to join my Regiment before Canton I might have been a Lieutenant Colonel of 1843, instead of 1831 as well as raised like several of my Junior to the dignity of a Companion of the Bath.
I trust then I may be allowed to assume, that if it was for the good of Her Majesty's Service generally I was detained in Hong Kong by Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary; it was a direct hardship and I feel it to have been a mortification that I was excluded from promotion and honors, which I was not permitted the opportunity of winning in common with my fortunate comrades to whom Whence was their maiden field.
I take the liberty of enclosing Extract of Despatch from Sir Henry Pottinger to His Grace the Duke of Wellington, in which as Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Henry bore testimony to my usefulness to this Colony in its most troublous times.
And here Sir, I would earnestly call Lord Hardinge's attention to testimonials and the details of my services already on record at the Horse Guards, inspection of them by His Lordship is of the utmost importance I think it right also to note at the present moment.