Franks to Adderley (Parliamentary Under-Secretary)

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 3d inst.

With regard to the payments therein authorized, I beg to
acquaint you that I have received from the Crown Agents the sum of
£309.10, being £122 for my passage home, and £187.10 for three
month's salary.

I beg to state that I have not received any Salary for the month
of January, during half of which I was still Employed in preparing my
Account Current, and that I believe I have other claims to
compensation which I may desire to put forward at some more
favourable time.

But the purpose of this letter is to enquire—with reference to
the concluding paragraph of your Despatch—on what ground you are
directed to inform me that the Duke of Buckingham & Chandos cannot
hold out to me any prospect of further employment? And to
request—if this announcement is made to me in consequence of my
Report from Governor Seymour—that I may be furnished with a copy or
permitted to inspect such Report at the Colonial Office.