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On the subject to me, nothing further has reached me, even up to this date and I hope therefore I may be pardoned if I once more call attention to it.
746 When I entered my Sixteenth year of Public Service, I submit that I have said much to entitle one to come forward for Consideration.
Ice Despatches from Gov Davis to Lord Stanley confidential, 12 Dec: 1844. I am careful that I shall not forward this application in vain.
Under Sir John Wams and the Financial Secretary, 23 of 26 Feb: For I. Davis to test Civil. No: 577 21 May.
I. Davis to Earl Grey: 129 of 27 Dec: "447.
And I now simply allude to them for the purpose of showing that though my name was freely quoted on all sides, it was never introduced to establish my right to this position I claimed.
I have mentioned constant for myself, and to prove that my services to the Government through carrying its difficulties were appreciated by all the disputants.
Governor Bonham to Earl Grey: Excl no 7, 25 August 1848. Governor Bonham to Earl Grey: Excl no 27 Dec: 48.
brought to the notice of the Colonial Office, Bonham to Earl Grey.
I am still authorized to make application frequently by these Gentlemen.
My present appointment I have held for five years, and during that period the Confusion (for I have been accused of being to blame in 1850 which no one Responsible) that impeded the action of the Government, prevents my looking back upon this later time with unmixed satisfaction, I may yet recall with Credit much hard work, Considerable successes, and an unremitting submission to official duty.
I have borne with patience, and have now promised myself to forget the discouragement that I have faced.
It was my good fortune to be absent from the Colony when the recent official Misunderstandings reached their highest.
Li D. Bourne's M Labouchere Me: 854 Lane 18SE.
one of my fifteen years and I wish to say Gladly, I have laboured in this Colony, with the prosperity of which I have been long connected, and which to me has been a source of great satisfaction.
But I venture to add that no one, be his physical powers what they may, can for so long a time endure unimpaired the drudgery and tearing monotony, especially in a secure position of this Island, and with a good Constitution, twice recruited by visits to England, is the cause of my being here now, and in the possession of energy unimpaired.
There are in the Mercantile Community some who have been as long, and have suffered as little as myself, but the difference between them and me is this: they have not been, like me, confined to Hong Kong; they go from the Colony to a Convalescent Port, and from one part of the Coast to another; they enjoy frequent and lengthened change of air and scene to a great extent.