CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12] — Page 166

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would be both legally and morally bruding I resume that official engagements between publie junctimonies

are not less sheud

than those of a private nature,

and viewing the matter in this

Stis hwcelleney's

light I rely upon Kindneu in wconumending, both

as relates to the future and the part

restoration of the emolument

2300 per annum the

F

sum hitherto

pared to the person holding my appointment.

His breelleney will readily appreciate the peculiar hardship of my case, when I inform him that induced by the higher pay of my present

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appointment. Irelinquishedd position at home under the Home

the remuneration

Office

was

of

which

hardly inferion to the reduced

sum of my present one, cxpecially when it is remembered that with my home appointment ! abandoned a position very superion

to Honghong as respects the

Comforts and

It appears

cconomy of living

to me indeed that

£200 per annum with high rents, dear provisions, subject to the charges of Superannuation

deduction and Income Pay with searecly afford

the

means

of

subsistence, it will not certainly

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