CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12] — Page 163

expressions of

commendation

which they have more

me

placed

than

on record.. I am equally certain that I can rely upon your Excellency's

friendly testimony, and that in forwarding my application to Earl Grey you will give it all the support you may

conceive

or within the of duty to afford it:- and I repeat my hope that

founds

just

the manifest economy of

arrangement may

induce

his Lordship to acquiesce

herein..

I must however impress

earnestly upon your Excellency

that anxious.

I am to seek

more bracing climate, the immediate sale of my Majority

is

as

essential

conditions of

my resignation

as

any

other.

I

Am

not without embarrassments

from which the Sale of my

Commission would have for more than perfectly released

me; nor

was it until I

applied to sell it, that I

became aware that to hold

it would

remain unsaleable with a Civil appointment._

I am informed that it is possible that, even after

my

retirement from the Civil Service,

obstacles

may still exist to

its immediate sale; but there

are

none,

I apprehend, which might not be speedily removed at the instance of the Secretary of State, should his Lordship conceive the reduction of expenditure, consequent upon...

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