Your Lordships will kindly inform me
whether
any reply to
my application
for the Appointment of Chief Magistrate
of Hong Kong
has
crossed
me on
my
passage Home, and if so, what has
been the decision.
I have the honor to be,
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's Most Obedient Humble Servant,
A. L. English
Harbor Master, Marine Magistrate,
Emigration Officer.
and
that his leave
which I suppose it will be
sanctioned
he wishes, that the Govt be directed to pay him his salary
say
that no alter...
This application puzzles Chief Magistracy.
And this on
theat print
Butler
Newcastle has other arrangements in
view. 17 Aug.
Assuming this Cast to hold
care. I am not sure what the Duke
means by the interno HD.
319
and
that wish was to have promoted one
The Public Officer of Hon'ble Sir J. Bowring, Inveighed so strong a sentiment against Mr. Mitchell from Sir G. Bonham Bent I should probably have been selected Twin had I not been so strongly engaged by Sir J. Bowring,
& interceded by Sir Western (I think) to send out a Barrister from England I am looking out for
one & have
2003 Applicants at home, very eligible. –
Unsever
as preferred by Dr. Macgowan