To the Right Honorable,
S. Labouchere M.P.,
Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies,
Marine Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hong Kong.
4th June 1856.
I beg leave, with profound respect, to avail myself of that privilege established by the Colonial Regulation, of addressing the highest authority in the State for the redress of a grievance which I am bound to believe has only become one at all, through the imperfect representation of the Case which involves it on the part of Her Majesty's Government here. An imperfect representation, arising, no doubt, out of the immense pressure of important Correspondence incidental to this rapidly increasing Colony.