With the most respectful deference I beg to assure Your Lordship,
that nothing is more repugnant and painful to my feelings than to be repeating so often my earnest soli-citationssolicitations for re-employment under the trying and unfortunate position, in which I am, and have been
placed for the last two years, arising from my having resigned my late
appointment, on the most honorable grounds of public and private
integrity. The detailed official representation of which I have often
taken the great liberty of callingcalling to your Lordship's
attention — shewing clearly the peculiar hardship of my case — Otherwise,
I should now have been spared the poignant necessity of appearing
both importunate and intrusive on your Lordship's humane notice.
I have had the honor to receive your Lordship's reply of the
15th Inst, wherein I am directed to refer any application for
employment to the "Hudson's Bay Company" — Permit me, My Lord, in the
most respectful manner to observe that I have not the least claim
to the consideration of the above, and as a perfect stranger,
I should not consider myself justified in presuming to do so.
From my having read in the public journals, of a Governor having
been appointed by H.M's Government to govern Vancouver's Island I ventured
(labouring at the time under this impression) to tender my humble
service in consideration of my 3 years servitude, and the
heavy serious expenses in which I am placed by my resignation. Under
these painful circumstances, I presume to hope  that your Lordship will not
consider my claim a premature, or an unreasonable one on the Home
Government. I earnestly hope as a late servant that I may yet be
considered deserving of further employment in any of H.M's Colonial
Possessions, or wherever Your Lordship may be pleased to consider my
hard case meriting this favourable consideration — Respectfully trusting,
that I may be allowed to apologize for thus presuming to intrude myself
both on Your Lordship's notice, and important time.