CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8] — Page 330

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ame; my object in what I had (ame;

Lone

a motive

the ver

reverse of Such

I cannot. refrained

used in.

My Lord from stating in this place that I have just cause. "Considering myself hardly Laving

been compelled to procure bail" for my appearance at Be

So

next Sessions to answer a charge Prave a nature as that of Conspiracy, which gera out

out of gsrw

mont, and on which

this arraignmont,

Ist and I

by indicted;

singles

The

brates

depositions taken at the Magistr Court, a copy of which mark's enclosure No is herewith, will

Non

Lordship in possession

place your Lordship

of

wa

the whole support to this Change

Inclosure No 5 bring capy letter replying to the Gluck of Councils intimation of my

for Suspension from Alfree pending: pleasure of Her Majesty's Government will show to your Lordship the Iemonstrance which I have. deemid it proper to mothe ag

anish this suspension, to which, althaupte

a

Fortnight Land

No elfly,

elapses

324

I Love Received

have received.

a cknowledgment, and it

only remains for me to throw

Mesself upon the candid consideration of aur Lordship and For Majestys. Government, and plead Kat I may without delay be reinstated in Mych Office, from which I deem that a

injustly suspended for an insufficient cause.

Consequent

wente

of

a conain &'an cs

And

insight into the habité. the Chinese oftending through,

partly

maritime life, over a period of Inelve years to the days of

of my bocfood when I first came to Chine and where I have been some portim

our

of Every year since, will I trust I have some wright with

7 Lordship, in the conclusion which tour Lordship can but arrive at "I that, for the sole purpose of

injuring Major Came, I could not

far forget my

my duty to myself Familie dépendent on my

so

and to

Jaland

my

for Susport, as to flopardige the present position, my past services and future prospects,

outh of a Chinese

or even outh

on

the word

in the

Mode

а

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