CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12] — Page 126

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have had the natural comfort of working in the open fields and under temperate skies, and would have been

sustained from year to year by reflection that his

life

the

was

not being

lowly and uselessly wasted away

but that his sentence at the wrist

would come to

to an

health and spirits

undermined._

That

Your

and before

were

utterly

his

Petitioner's health has

suffered most severely even to the imminent peril of his life, from repeated attacks of dysentery brought by the oppressive heat, and by his prolonged confinement; debarredh he has been, not only from

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as

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!

sufficient natural excreen, but firm the relief of healthy labor; wither of

which does climate admit

European Conviet._

That a fellow Recomen

of

to the

of your

Petitioner in the same ward, uns

similar sentence, was

1

under

seized with the

same complaint at the same time last summer, and sank under nis

sufferings, and under the effect of

decrair.

That

your

utter

Petitioner most hunti

and carnerting implores your Excellens,

to take into account all he has suffered

and to consider it as a

sufficient

atonement of the crime he has

of the

committed, and to extend to him Her

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