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between it and the Maltese My regiment had been quartived for ce
long time.
in the infantry barracks nearest the Palace and the Excellency had therefore the very
best oppor: : unity of observing the good relations that existed between it and the inhabitants
This letter
In sending you. Jearently hope that after the many refusals I have. received Ars Rozal Highness will be gracconsly pleased to grant my present applix
I have &
=cation.
ch taking the liberty of submitting the foregoing application to you perhaps it for me
with
be converent may to explain in connection former lamentabl
Correspondence
dence why I was impelled to refer to Su George Bowen
as I did.
of
In
my
letters to the Secretary State for the Colonies and in
Narrative I show that I& coned clearly trace, home to Sir George Bowen the surreptitious
my
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slanders which must have been resorted to in order to destroy the confidance which authorities had reposed From
a position in which I was honoured with His Royal Highness's favour and regard I suddenly found myself in
asperity
and
one where coldness
were the only
the only rewards for my years of service. This mysterious alteration was
induced without the shadow
of
A
suspicion of misconduel beng charged agamot me, may it was developed after the registerd approval of my
In the tarrative superiors.
and previous letters I have shown the high opinion His Rozal Highness
as well
the Secretary of State for War arlertamed of me ; for they Kept
at
my
post in Clima was at every moment immerent and entrusted
while war
with all the arrangements for
meeting it should it unhappily have broken out.