I believe
a little
Circumstances have gone so with us, absent as I have been for several
no
years,
even prevented the accustomed visits of the Plenipotentiary
to the Frontier posts.
My predecessor occupied a wholly rented furnished house, for the rental of which there had been a
lot
of moderating
and
Colonial allowance issued by Loan, a part. In my case, I have been compelled to inhabit a palatial residence, a
great
establishment which I have had to furnish and keep up, at an expense enormously greater
than that which was entailed on my predecessors.
Now that the question
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of my pension is likely to come under consideration of Her Majesty's Government, you perceive how injuriously my interests have been affected by the delay in the re-consideration of my position;
and it was stated to me that this delay grew out of the difficulty disposing of the case of the Lieut. Governor.
Opinion has been cordially agreed in the Council that it would neither have been just now becoming in me to allow Colonel Caine to be in any way a sufferer from arrangements for my benefit. But Colonel Caine's
the
fruition has been now for several