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And, when your lordship inform me that you understood my former letter, of the 17th May, (lost), the proposed correction of that assumes Iovour cau, in any way, meet the meaning "that: I wished to inspect the correspondence between the Clerical Department and Sir John Bowring;" I would remind your Lordship that I have never as yet made any such request in any line; and, respectfully acting upon you, to satisfy grievance by a perusal of the Original, that your Lordship is further deceived in supposing that my letter contained any application to obtain, for the present, the opportunity" to which the few words, cited by your Lordship, refer, I would further represent that I am perfectly at a loss to comprehend, how it is possible that the clerical error, suggested by your Lordship, could have recurred, or how the matter of complaint, already submitted and with a view to which such proposal is made.

But, my Lord, there is a part startling of your lordship's letter, so in its assumption, and so contrary to any thing, of which I have been informed, that I am constrained to call upon your Lordship, for an immediate explanation. I have, as yet, had no communication whatever, except that contained in your Lordship's letter now under reply, of my dismissal from public employment; it was only through the newspapers that I heard that even my suspension, the surfacetón, was confirmed. The statement had...

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+00: And, when your lordship inform me that you understood my former letter, of the 17th May, (lost), the proposed correction of that assumes Iovour cau, in any way, meet the meaning "that: I wished to inspect the correspondence between the Clerical Department and Sir John Bowring;" I would remind your Lordship that I have never as yet made any such request in any line; and, respectfully acting upon you, to satisfy grievance by a perusal of the Original, that your Lordship is further deceived in supposing that my letter contained any application to obtain, for the present, the opportunity" to which the few words, cited by your Lordship, refer, I would further represent that I am perfectly at a loss to comprehend, how it is possible that the clerical error, suggested by your Lordship, could have recurred, or how the matter of complaint, already submitted and with a view to which such proposal is made. But, my Lord, there is a part startling of your lordship's letter, so in its assumption, and so contrary to any thing, of which I have been informed, that I am constrained to call upon your Lordship, for an immediate explanation. I have, as yet, had no communication whatever, except that contained in your Lordship's letter now under reply, of my dismissal from public employment; it was only through the newspapers that I heard that even my suspension, the surfacetón, was confirmed. The statement had... 51 Page information remains as is due to lack of further context.
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