Blake to Secretary of State

I shall esteem it a great favour if you will kindly inform me if the
allowances granted to the Marines for Service in V. Island are likely
to be paid soon. As I have been in England a year I would submit
that the grant due to me according to the Paysheets, which you have,
might be paid from the Colonial Office to me now—as I could not have
been included in the list of sums drawn by the Governor of
V.I.—being in England at the time the money was granted by the Duke
of Newcastle.

Begging the favour of an answer, and that my views may be favourably
entertained.