under the
his Income, thus placing him,
done at a Cost of not less than £5 per week in wess decision of the Stome Government, could only have been cacamstances in which he was plaude, pending the
in the Colony
found that his remaining hope of such application being successful, your Memoriatit the Observations of Sir John Bowring discouraging any
eues
of
Supposing that credit
discharge the several duties imposed cepon him, as well as and of the impossibility of his continuing unaided to proof of the extume diffientties attending his position and of Doctor Jack, (your Mundialists Medical aoriser), of Mr Kingsmill ( the present acting Altomry General Foctor Bridges / the present acting Colonial Secretary). Letters appended hereto; more particularly to those of Your Memorialist begs leave to refer to the
a position of Debt and diffinitly;
under his circumstances was desirable or could be provved,
ext
which you
- pleased to appoint him either hastily or inconsiderately.
proof of his not having resigned the Post to which;
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disposal on the part of the Community, a testimony - your passage to England, intirely unsolicited was placed at his Bersons appended histo, and to state the fist that a free position, he begs leave to refer you to the lotters from several generally felt in the Colony for your Munoriatiests untenable froof of the sympathy!
resignation had been accepted, and in
the duties of the Offices he had held for sometings after his unwilling to unbanass the Government, he continued to dischage Your Memorialist begs respectfully to state that
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Memorialist respectfully declimits. not only to his having endeavoured to perform his several duties satisfactorily, but to his having been considered by the community generally as placed in a position to which he should not have
Your Memorialist would respectfully beg leavs
been reduceds.
to impress upon you that in resigning his appointments and leaving Hong Kong, he was compelled to such a
they
-amm
which
step, not by the weighty duties - onerous as he had to perfoun, but by the fact of his having to discharge
: such
upon a salary not adequate for Official Expenses. consequently leaving Your Memorialist nothing. wherewith to provide for his own. Supporting
and
Your Memorialist, in conclusion, camestly prays Your
on the foregoing
your attention to the cucinstances unlocked
Memorial, and hopefully trust's that expon taking into
to your
and
| may
favourable consideration, the unexpected diffientties of your
Memorialists position . the fact of his having hearth fully conscientiously to discharge the several duties imposed expon so long as he possibly could - The circumstance of his having been sent to so distant a Colony as Hong Kong at a necessarily heavy expense for outfit - the unavoidable disauangement of his family Affairs during his absence from this Country- the fact of his health having suffered from labour ande
anxiety of mind while in the Colony and during the long Voyage home. Occcipiping seven months -
be You will he pleased to duiet such compensation as you may
consider due and fitting to be made to your
Memorialist, wither in
money