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from the service of the Brown. Mr. Barter finding himself in this distant Dependency without any resources pecuniary applied for an allowance to enable him to return to this Country, and, he trusts, clear his character. On these facts I am to remark that if a Clergyman, receiving Appointment in a distant Colony were to misbehave himself there, and be consequently dismissed if known to this Department, he could have no just claim to an allowance for a passage home.
But if, as in the present case, a Clergyman is sent out, and is afterwards removed, not for anything done in the Colony, but for misbehaviour in this Country before his appointment, and which might have been known if correct information had been effected, which would have prevented his being appointed at all, it would be hard either