CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6] — Page 74

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else to

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to

- gavl too. The Consul

Your Excellency made me sign

only satisfaction

A

paper against my

will. This clerk

is there as

my

witness, with us.

ritussing

everything.

the

and withinit

i hip

punishing

without

any mary the

Captain

+

recived from the Crioul is to clear

furn

for his barbarous deed. Being left ashore without

any money Your Ex. cellency from Newcastle to Manila working for nothing merely as a slave and getting to Manila I have foreign

to do the best I could in a

place, furthermore being sick and

the Convel decline to send me to the

Cospital. In February

when I was a

little better Your Eselllency I came up to the office there. I met a new Consul Mr Earnshaw. I explained him the case, as well as the office clerk, and furthermore begging him to pay

boarding house for me until he

a

could

could send me

away

Fo

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some British possession. I told him that I was sick left whore in distress through the

other Consoul's partiality, I most rev- pectfully bind myself

towards hine.

for colection. The told me to dear "out of the office quick as possible

I can, or use he will have me hand.

ed

ever

Lo

-th

policeman . I am in a most pitiful state Your Excellency

starving and homeless no protection

could I receive from the Consul, af- ter he having done all this harm. the highest and nearest

As

you

as to make the

authority I most respectfully bind my self towards Your Excellency praying you be good enough "British Coresul pay my passage from here to Honghong

or to

me in

o put a house until I get a ship to sign

I most respectfully pray &four Excellency to forward my

humble.

petition to the highest authority of

England

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