But as yet furisdictions, that in England, and many of the Colony, are filled by their own Offices. I need only appeal to your own experience, and that of any resident here, to support my statement that for the last five years prices have so advanced that they have not yet quite reached fully double what they were.
Or there is no prospect in likelihood of a reduction. I am judged as a matter of first, is high are they that my Salary is not enough to cover the heavy expense of living, any members of the community can testify, and unless I had a smart addition to my means from private sources, it would have been impossible for me to have continued here in the office in which Her Majesty's Government has been pleased to place me; that such should be the frustration of a servant of the Government I do not think is the wish or intention of Her Majesty's Ministers, and therefore I am induced, though I do so with diffidence, to seek this redress, which I do earnestly trust you will consider fair and reasonable.
I need not enlarge on the expenses to which I am subject, and wants that a man in this Colony should provide for, it might easily be done: as an example of the former it will be sufficient to mention the House Rent, which, in my case, takes nearly £110 per annum out of my salary of £600. And of the latter the debility and sickness which necessitate change of air and climate, I may sorrowfully add, might have to be provided for at least, as in Europe and should be prepared to meet so common a result to a residence in the South of China, and need I ask how is it to be done on such a salary I enjoy? In fact, should sickness overtake me, I would be wholly unable to avail myself of the only means of restoration to health, namely, change. For the reasons alone stated, the insufficiency of my Salary to support me here, and the deficiency likely from my private means for that purpose;
Further in support of my present application, I consider it only fair to bring to your notice the contrast between the pay and remuneration of Clerks in Bankers' and Merchants' establishments here, and when it is considered that the whole of their expenses of living are defrayed by their employers, they on average receive in China at least double my pay; and to those on whose shoulders any responsibility rests, or who are employed about duties requiring ordinary care and apprehension, salaries are paid amounting to three and four times as much as I receive.
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