the British public. I need but refer to the petitions presented to Parliament, long before these shores Complaining of pruited by order of the House of Commons in February, March and April 1868. Petitions from Newcastle; Sunderland Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham and Marylebone:
1. Letters from myself to decretory On "scandals brought to light by the proceedings" I am still a suppliant ; on my side, I assert this is the eleventh year of any privation of office and its emoluments ; Yet on this moment, no final decision has been intimated upon the matter of my complaints, as seen in the London Gazette of April 18:59.
195 Letters from myself of the 1830 from Under Secretary are unjust and illegal, and its subsequent confirmation thereof (one founded on error, every opportunity to defend myself having been denied) me, and the necessary information being thereby lost to this Government.
And it will be on all the above grounds, that I shall ask your Grace to hold me entitled to adequate and suitable compensation by re-employment or otherwise; my place having, since my return to England, been filled up by the late Ministry, during your predecessors' tenure of your departments.
Your Grace will indeed find that there were a recent correspondence between your Department and myself, but (with the exception of a letter of the 13th April) of a semi-official character, if your Department will also find that, from the Private Secretary M. Grace, however, there was correspondence from Wolff of the 7th April 1857 and from Under Secretary Sirr. L. Bulwer Lytton Bart Myft. of Carnarvon of the 14th April, 17th, 18th, 30th May, & 10th June 1859.
The correspondence has been without result, except, indeed, that of adding very much to my painful uncertainty as to the views of Her Majesty's Government in my regard.
My object, in commencing that correspondence (interrupted by the sudden separation of the then Ministry from office), and it is the object of the present communication to obtain informed enquiry, and redress; — and I hope to be able to produce a conviction in the minds of Her Majesty's Government and of the public; that my original claim...
At the same time that I make this application to your Grace, I think it right that I should lay all the material information as to my suspension which I possess before you without any reservation. In so doing I shall not state anything that is not proved by documentary evidence long since of record in the Colonial Office. And I therefore respectfully ask that if any portion of it shall appear to be not so supported, your Grace will do me the justice to direct my attention to the supposed deficiency.
In the month of October 1855, upon the cordial recommendations of the then Secretary of State, the late Sir William Molesworth, Her Majesty was pleased to appoint me Her Attorney General for Hong Kong; and on the 21 November 1855 I left London, by the Overland route, for my destination.
2. Arriving at Hong Kong, on the 30th January 1856, I at once entered upon the arduous duties of my office.
3. Amongst those duties, perhaps the most arduous was...