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(Confidential)

Hongkong 13th December 1869

My Lord,

On the 19th October last I addressed a letter to His Excellency Sir Richard MacDonnell begging him to take my services into consideration should any opportunity for my substantive promotion offer.

I now find that any such prospect in this place is so uncertain that I am impelled to write to your Lordship in the hope of obtaining another Colony.

I have learnt that Mr Remie lately appointed Auditor General of Ceylon will most probably be unable to assume that post as the state of his health forbids residence in a tropical Climate.

The Right Honorable Earl Granville, K.G. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies

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(Confidential) Hongkong 13th December 1869 My Lord, On the 19th October last I addressed a letter to His Excellency Sir Richard MacDonnell begging him to take my services into consideration should any opportunity for my substantive promotion offer. I now find that any such prospect in this place is so uncertain that I am impelled to write to your Lordship in the hope of obtaining another Colony. I have learnt that Mr Remie lately appointed Auditor General of Ceylon will most probably be unable to assume that post as the state of his health forbids residence in a tropical Climate. The Right Honorable Earl Granville, K.G. Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies
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Hongkong 13th

My Lord,

13th December 1869

534

On the 19th October

lash I addressed

a letter to

His Excellency Sir Richard Mac Donnell begging him to take

my services into consideration should

Opportunity for my substantive promotion offer.

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how find that any such profset

in this place is so uncertain that I am impelled to write to your Lordship in the hope of obtaining another Colony.

advancement ins

I have Carnt that Mr

Remie lately appointed Auditor feneral of Ceylon will most probably be unable to assume that post

as the state

residence

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of his health forbids in a tropical Climate.

The Right Honorable

Earl Granville, K. G.

It

Her Majesty, Reincipal Secretary of

State for the Colonies

X.

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