"the receipt of your letter bearing
"Thigh
a
testimony to the merits
"Mr. Mercer, and remain,
f
your very faithful servant,
(Sipuck) Edward Cardwell.
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Terpated Separate from the
Secretary of State to Mr. Mercer, Downing Street, 26th betober, 1865.-
Sir
Sir Hercules Robinson in "This Despatch of the 13th December last, "N. 186. forwarded to me your "application for the Government of Stoughing, which he was about to
22.
"vacate for that of Ceylon
"I have now to inform
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"you that I have not felt myself "able to meet your wishes, and that "Her Majesty
has signified her
[
"approval of my
recommendation
"that the Government should be entructed to Sir Prichard Bracdownell,
"the Lieutenant Governor of "Noon Scotin
"I can
assure you
"however that I am not unmintral
"of the conscientions diligence with have so long performed
"which
you "the outies of Colonial Secretary, "Stomphony, and which haven
"equally distinguished your
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