case been benefited by £450 of my funds, to which it had at least no Moral claim -
Again when ... of the Army, though ... the ... permitted to sell out of nominally gazetted as Mayor of 39th Regiment, I only received the ... price of my Captains Commission, ... thus suffering ... loss of £1400, which ... afterward accrued as a ... of ... as a pure ... to ... Jure gain the exchequer in the sale of that reserved Majority. It is a Regulation of the Anne Guards that ... an ... Officer ... Can ... only ... sell the actual regimental rank he has attained, a very proper regulation. But I was debared that actual step in rank, through the exigencies of Civil Service in this Colony in the ... & my ... of the ... in face ... own earnest remonstrance ... which will sufficiently ... assear ... from the ... Letter of the Secretary to Her Majesty's Superintendent of Trade dated 22 May 1841
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I was absolutely prevented from joining my Regiment in the operations against Canton in May 1841. Consequently I lost military promotion, and chance ... my ... the Companionship of the Bath, both having been attained by several of my juniors and I lost $1,400 finally by having only a company to sell, instead of a Majority, and all because it was held necessary ... at the time to have ... Military lean at the head of the Magistracy of ... this ... a ... young Colony where the first settlers with valuable property in "heaps about them, mat Sheds ... upon ... were ... living under there hillsides exposed ... to the nightly descent of armed gangs ... of desperadoes from the opposite main. Is it too much to hope Sir, that if I have this suffered not only pecuniary but what I value infinitely more, military distinction through the exigencies ... love ... high