lateral object of enforcing a The first is that it would be
guilty of a different
moral distasteful to me to withdraw the
certain view, on Subject, to which I with histor Your Lordship's a Kention.
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The second is that, if I were to do so, the nature of the payments Your Lordship has intimated, made by me, which is at present known to no one in Hong Kong, except the Governor, could not remain generally unknown. I would most respectfully but very reluctantly ask Your Lordship to reconsider.
1.2. It would be a matter of public notoriety that I had refunded a portion of any sum. If in spite of these considerations Your Lordship still remains of the opinion that the money should be drawn out-
Trespass on Your Lordship's time, I shall mention only two reasons in support of my request.