CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9] — Page 67

the good fortune to be thus noticed.

I made no application for them but I

have no

doubt that, had. I not been

forbidden to join my Regiment before Canten I might have been a Luutenant Colonel of 1843, instead of 1831 as well s raised like several of my Junior to the dignity of a Companion of the Bath.

I trust then I may be allowed to assume, that if it was for the good of Her Majesty's Service generally I was detained in Hong Hong by Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary; it was a direct hardship

ad

I feel it to have been a mortification.

that I was excluded from promotion

and honors, which I was not permitted

the opportunity of winning

in common

with

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with my fortenate

comrades to whom

!

Whince was their maiden field

I take the liberty of enclosing

Extract of Despatch from Sir Henry

Pottinger

to His Grace the Duke of. Wellington, in which as Her Majesty's

Plenipotentiary and Governor of Hong Hong, Sir Henry bore testimony to my usefulness to this Golong in its most troublous times.

And here Sir I would ear-

nestly call Lord Hardinge's attention to testimonials and the details of my services already

my

Guards,

on record at the House

inspection of them by His

að an

Lordship is of the utmost importance le

I think it right also to note

me at the

present moment.

!

that