A Portion of the Journal Kept By Thomas Raikes, Esq., From 1831 to 1847;
A Portion of the Journal Kept By Thomas Raikes, Esq., From 1831 to 1847;
Thomas Raikes
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At last he was nominated consul at Caen; but the next difficulty was to leave Calab, where he had contracted a considerable debt. This object, how- ever, was, after much perplexity, accomplished by Jiis giving a security on the future appointments of his new office to the Calais creditor. No sooner was he installed as consul at Caen than he committed an act so extraordinary, so in- comprehensible, that it overwhelmed his friends and well-wishers with astonishment and disgust. He wrote a formal ...letter to Lord Palmerston, the Fo- reign Secretary, stating that the place itself was a sinecure, and the duties attached to it so trifling, that he himself should recommend its being reduced. It remains still a mystery what was the object of this manoeuvre, for it can bear no other name ; whether he hoped in such a case to get a better ap- pointment, or whether he wished to throw over tJie creditors who held a lien upon his salary; but, be Digitized by VjOOQIC 1835.] T. RAIKES, ESQ. 217 it what it may, he was himself the real sufferer.
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