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between it and the Maltese My regiment had been quartived for ce

long time.

in the infantry barracks nearest the Palace and the Excellency had therefore the very

best oppor: : unity of observing the good relations that existed between it and the inhabitants

This letter

In sending you. Jearently hope that after the many refusals I have. received Ars Rozal Highness will be gracconsly pleased to grant my present applix

I have &

=cation.

ch taking the liberty of submitting the foregoing application to you perhaps it for me

with

be converent may to explain in connection former lamentabl

Correspondence

dence why I was impelled to refer to Su George Bowen

as I did.

of

In

my

letters to the Secretary State for the Colonies and in

Narrative I show that I& coned clearly trace, home to Sir George Bowen the surreptitious

my

MOUNT MASCAL,

BEXLEY,

KENT.

Me

312

wk,

slanders which must have been resorted to in order to destroy the confidance which authorities had reposed From

a position in which I was honoured with His Royal Highness's favour and regard I suddenly found myself in

asperity

and

one where coldness

were the only

the only rewards for my years of service. This mysterious alteration was

induced without the shadow

of

A

suspicion of misconduel beng charged agamot me, may it was developed after the registerd approval of my

In the tarrative superiors.

and previous letters I have shown the high opinion His Rozal Highness

as well

the Secretary of State for War arlertamed of me ; for they Kept

at

my

post in Clima was at every moment immerent and entrusted

while war

with all the arrangements for

meeting it should it unhappily have broken out.

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