CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854 — Page 372

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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Hong Kong August 17.1854

It is perfectly

true that from

a series of losses and midfortunes over which COD alone could have control, and from

which-Box Come

sickness in

world sent I has been involved in fcom -

paratively) heavy embarrassmento.

trials which caused them, spread over a

period of six years, began to cease

about the.

in

In or

embarrast.

to lesson.

year 1847 - and m

my ments began also gradually

to But again in March 1851. the life of my only surviving son ( the last of five) was so far endangered that his medical at- tendant declared that there was no hope for him stive by an immediate and perma. nent removal into pure country air. This change of situration for myself

rendered a

and a

Pa

change of place for my family indispensable duty

but it also unhappity

entailed with it the necessity of a slower liquidation of my

debt.

Still even with

my-grantly redisced income. I continued gradually to discharge my varions engage.

Founder that the process of pay. was so slow, and harassed

monty.

ing off

the con

Conscious.

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debts I resolved al

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