larger miome, of I had fixed my fees, I was content; and I thus obtained very great influence with the Parsee population, which influence I greatly jeopardised by unceasing energetic endeavours to europeanize the
domestic habits Parsees especially
9. As to the address and the service of plate, the first notions I had that such a thing had been even contemplated
was a Letter which reached me from my son in Lincoln's Inn informing me that a deputation had called on being there to inquire when it would be convenient for me to receive the address. delay occasioned by
10. After some a family Calamity, a deputation of four Asiatic Merchants brought the address and presented the plate to my address, which I understood was signed by every Parsee of Mahomedan Firm and merchant in Hong Kong. To not one of them had I or could I have rendered any service as
302 Attorney General: but I believe that each one of them had thought himself obliged to me in my private professional character
11. of the four persons who presented the address and who have permanently left Hong Kong, each was connected with a Firm, for which I had advised and carried through very heavy transactions, and for which I believe they thought money could not adequately represent their sense of obligation. Jamsetze Nusserwanjee Tata, now a resident in Finsbury Circus, who read the address to me, remembered cases in which his Firm in Hong Kong had been defrauded, but in which I had advised that in consequence of legal difficulties it was unwise to litigate, and I prevented litigation against his Firm with urgency and to his annoyance and thereby deprived myself of fees which in other circumstances would have amounted to a considerable sum. and he is now thankful for my advice. Both the other Firms of them, Rustomjee Cama & Co and Mody, Hay & Co now of Broad Street in the City represented in that Deputation felt
Themselves