has been raised which renders necessary upon my part the following painful disclosure of my private affairs.
The fact is that at whatever risk
ainst the warning
to my life
and against of my physician that a return to a tropical climate will most likely develop afresh that critical tendency to heart. disease which had previously imperilled it, I have had no
option but to encounter
the risk at all hazards. I had the misfortune to enter into certain speculations a year ago in England which resulted in
the A
whole
savings of my Career in China and leaving
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me moreover, over helmed in debt-
To satisfy my more importunate ~
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creditors at home. I have just been
transfer
in the
obliged to sell ff. booo worth of my small. property here, as a certain Land office-registered 28th of December last, or about that date, will verify
have been obliged, to set aside pension of
£ 156. 18.10
Keep up policies of
my
and
small
per annum to
insurance upon my ins.
life at ruinous premia.
Such tir is
my
耋
position and hard
extremity, and such my explanatim of what is at first sight
an
anomaly.
If His Excellency the acting Governor shall deem it necessary to notify my return to this leolony to the Secretary of State Trequest that a copy of this letter may accompany his representation
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