the
Man on the 26 May 1856 Just a letter from Colonial secretary, Hong Kong, acquainting me that a Dispatch had been received by the last Mail from the Secretary for the Colonies in which
claim for House rent was disallowed. Copy mislaid I on
my
which is a copy
which a letter, the following of was sent by me through the Secretary of State for the Colonies
Sir,
Marine Magistrate Office Victoria Hong Kong, F. June 1856
I beg leave with profound respects to avail myself of the right established by "the Colonial regulations" 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 imperfect representation of the case which involves it on the part of Her Majesty's
imperfect representation
Government here.
- L
The
arising no doubt out of the immense
pressure of more important correspondence
Respectable
A Lubouchere MP
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for the Colonies
incidental
incidental to this rapidly increasing
Settlement.
by
453
In letter 2.379 of the 20 ult within
the Colonial Secretary here, in furtherance of directions from His Excellency the Governor,
of a Dispatch I am furnish'd with an extract, received by the last mail, from the Secretary for the Colonies, in which my claim for House Rent, in respect of the residence, which was dispossessed, is disallow'd,
In Dispatch No. 123 of 23 Jan.
and
No 17 of 19th September last year.
Her Majesty's then Secretaries of State for the Colonies were pleased distinctly to recognize and confirm my claim, and it appears to me that such a collision of views between those expressed in the above Dispatches, and the one now communicated to me must have arisen from some misapprehension of the entire merits of the case as I have previously stated; and I am therefore induced to submit extracts of certain Documents on record in this office, to which I cannot think due consideration has been afforded, in the confident assurance that a perusal of them will lead to a more favourable decision of