CO129-047 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1854 [8-12] — Page 12

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would compel a call and therefore

enable me to free mapelf from pecuniary responsibility and even to have a handsome surplus.

When the fact my apointment

: looked more

istent &f my tos ofên the

was n

made certain, closely into the

liabilities, and as is

the care

found them greate

than I had anticipated. However even is, if my property has sold well, I cannot be £ 200 in dekt. __

if it has sold only tolerably, I may be indebted £300 or £350 but if badly, I may porribly

rwe at present $400 a $150. And of this amount

W cannot recall to mind that a

A

eingle debt has been contraetis either from improper self indulgenze

on uuncecisary extravagance. When I found

were greater

that

мин

debts

in amount than I had anticipated,

in order to prevent the auxieties of

my

Creditors (if such feelings existe) I voluntarily proposed to Mr Limb, a muat respectable Soliciton in Andover, profecional aud parliamentary agent for 10 Cubitt, the member for that town,

should transfer

over to him

that I

my

furniture, books, plate, and the

moncy owing to me, to dispose of

their benefit.

fr

Irequested him, in the creat

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