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the hardonips which its exigencies entail upon its servants superseded in their rightful claims to advancement.
In scotimony of those claims I bey leave
leave to lay before your
Grace, the
following.-
Sir George Bonnum who
me to the Service, and who
ed me
appointed
knows the position which I surrendered
to join it, eleven
done me
She
Javers
years ago,
to entreat your
has, I believe,
Graces
ск
protection on my behalf in letter direct. Enclosed I have the honor to-
submit a letter from ex - Lieutenant Governor Caine, certifying my fouthful service - to which Governor Robinson would willingly
add his testimony, has
I time to claim it
my
In conclusion I
may
add,
Lord, that I have spent twenty years of my life in China, and that
my long experience of it, has been found. usefel by Her Majesty's Goverment on
several
several occasions extraneous to
sphere..
my proper
So far back as 1850 I had
the honor of receiving the acknowledgments
- Ford Grey,
of the Secretary of State,
mys
through Governor 1Bonham, for papers a
me,
presented by on the development of the
native trade of the Colony of Hong Kong which his Lordships thought worthy of laying before the Board of Trade und which the secretary of
M. Wilson,
The day
day
gave
to the mercantile
world in the Economist Newspaper - My Lord
his recent mission was pleased to
Elgin
transmit to the Foreign Ofice a paper &
Trade and Irelations with China
mine,
on ocr
a
at large, and to present it in ce published Lifeopater
as con
containing "much valuable information". the Foreign Office deeming it useful for.
the public guidance published
it in the Blue Book of the Mission
Lord, white
Itune
myf
my
services,
both official and extraneous, have been
ectinowledged.