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all lagards to procure if possible some situation from which I could by increased labour, and even at increased personal risk get a larger income to enable me to pay all I owed, the exchange to Hong King

8 of mind was offered to me : - Its improved healthiness, the cheap =

of living, and its peciomary athieutiges.

nets

me.

Influenced by

:s and the more

In this state

a.

were mentioned as strons inducements to

them

& by the desire to free myself from debt. I accepted it, readily because so distant a move would not permit

removal of my books and furniture de, would "therefore compel a sale, and so enable. me to face myself from pecussiory respon. sibility and even as

as I expected, to leave.

!

G.

handsome scorpters.

When the fact of sny appointment was

made tolerably exstain to me,

errtain to me, I looked

live

more closely into the extent

of mase. found :bilities, and as is too often the case, them

greater than I had anticipated. However even so,

if my property has sold well. I cannot be £200 in debt _ if it. has sold only tolerably. I may be debred to the extent of £ 300 of £350. but if badly I may possibly

owe £400 or £450.

be in

And of

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this amount I cannot recall

to mind that a

Anch

single debt has been con- tracted either from improper elly_indul_ genre, or unnecessary extests were greater

extravaga When I found that's my debts were in omorant than I had anticipated, in order to prevent the anxieties . of my creditors (if each feelings existed) Ivol. centarit, proposed to Mr Lamb, a most respectable solicitor in Andover, profes – sional and parliamentary agent for Mr. Cubitt, the member for that town that I should transfer

over to him my furniture books, plate, and the monty being

to me

I requested

to dispose of for their benefit. him in the event of the debts exceeding the assets, to draw up a legal document binding

me to pay all just demands me with 5 preent interest until . all were finally and fully

settled. This

upon

he did, and the state

8.

the matter at

ange of

present is that it is within the range possibility that I may

toin now be free

from all debt - if not that I may

more certainly

one

year.

be so.

two years,

in three years.

but most certainly

I did. leave my parist

but it was late in the

on he

Sunday,

Evening.

to enable