8
t
t
war
wa
there
impending
and
were stilte two yea
of my term to fulfill, if I had not been promotiel Like a good soldier I affectio
not to feel the slight, supposing
indeed that a
step
given me to
Bath would be given destroy the reflections that might hereafter be made.
request
as to the reason for my to remain being ignored.
For these reasons and as my Command had been characterised by events of considerable importance I took the oppore tunity to
express the hope
The Military official letter to the Secretary, Sir Edward Whitmo a
ar
that he would submit my name to His Royal Highness.
for the honour of receiving an
on the Order of
advance
the
Bath of which I had been.
Companion for
made
a
campaign
in China
the
1860
Be look no notice whatever
return
this letter but I found. of
to England year after my that it had been duly received.
A similar silence was observed
regarding another official letter I wrote & Sir Ed. Whitmor
MOUNT MASCAL,
BEXLEY,
KENT.
314
I took it to the Horse Guards
myself the day I arrived in London pome bloma and
ar
d I stated that I she do so and wait to learn whether
he wished to see
I
got no
answer.
Aut
When I was received by His Royal Highners I keenly feel the severity of his changed
demeanour
towards me
compared with the warme grasp of the hand he gave when. I was leaving for
Exercising the occasionally
Chma.
convement faculty of
"blind
#
eye
to see
Mark
pretended not
all this and on
the
usual form obtained His Royal Highness's consent
present
ne
Z
at the first levée return pom
held after my
An officer returning
chma.
pom a command
where
been ordered
to
might
he had
make such important pre- parations for
war
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