My Lord:
A 12085 59 Ballytruckle. Waterford 26 Nov 1859.
I humbly beg leave to submit the following case to your Lordship's humane consideration, my son Capt. J. H. Browne lived in Hong Kong, in China. He carried on business in Swatow River until May last, as Ship Chandler, and I understand by his letter to me in June 1857 that he had 3 boats building and that he was getting another, I have got an account lately the 8th September 1857, in the Barque, called the ... from Shanghae, that his christian name was drowned...