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General Commanding

in pursuance

of

The

Queen's Commissions

to be

an

Lieutenant

Governor, I consider

that it would be

convenient

that that Officer should be of the rank of Major General.

Copy

My Lord,

199

Houghtong, China, 25 September 1850,

I am most unwillingly obliged from the state of my health to ask your Lordship to request His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief to cause me to be relieved from this command early in the next year.

I have been without intermission 29 years in the Tropics, and the last three hot seasons in Houghtong have so impaired my health that I feel quite convinced I could not go through a fourth.

Under these circumstances, the duty I owe to the service as well as to my family

The Lord Fitzroy Somerset, K.C.B., Military Secretary

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General Commanding in pursuance of The Queen's Commissions to be an Lieutenant Governor, I consider that it would be convenient that that Officer should be of the rank of Major General. Copy My Lord, 199 Houghtong, China, 25 September 1850, I am most unwillingly obliged from the state of my health to ask your Lordship to request His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief to cause me to be relieved from this command early in the next year. I have been without intermission 29 years in the Tropics, and the last three hot seasons in Houghtong have so impaired my health that I feel quite convinced I could not go through a fourth. Under these circumstances, the duty I owe to the service as well as to my family The Lord Fitzroy Somerset, K.C.B., Military Secretary
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General Commanding in pursuance of The Jucen's Commissions to bein av Lieutenant Governor, I consider that it co convenient that that Officer should be of the cant of Major General . Copy My Lord, 199 Houghtong, China, 25 September 1850, I am most unwillingly health obliged from the state of my to ack your Lordship to request. His bance the Commander-in-Chief to cause me to be relieved from this been without command early in the next year I have intermission 29 years in the Tropies, and the last three hot seasons in- Houghing have so impaired my health that. I feel quite convinced I could not go through a fourth. Under these circumstances, the duty I owe the servies as well Lieutenant-General to my family The Lord Fitzhiry Somerset, b. C. B., Military Secretary-
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General Commanding

in pursuance

of

The

Jucen's Commissions

to bein

av

Lieutenant

Governor, I consider

that it co

convenient

that that Officer should be of the cant of Major General .

Copy

My Lord,

199

Houghtong, China, 25 September 1850,

I am most unwillingly

health

obliged from the state of my to ack your Lordship to request. His bance the Commander-in-Chief to

cause me to be relieved

from

this

been without

command early in the next year

I have intermission 29 years

in the Tropies,

and the last three hot seasons in-

Houghing have so impaired my health that. I feel quite convinced I could not go through a fourth. Under these circumstances, the duty I owe the

servies as well

Lieutenant-General

to

my family

The Lord Fitzhiry Somerset, b. C. B., Military Secretary-

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