These things are required for friends and dependants in England; and in the race of competition, what chance of success has a colonist?
I made up my mind at once to forward her memorial as requested, but pondered on the propriety of adding to it a recommendation.

It could do no good.

At most, it would only be the certificate of an unknown man; of one who had neither of the two great qualifications, namely, county or parliamentary interest, but it might do harm.

It might, by engendering ridicule from the insolence of office, weaken a claim, otherwise well founded.

"Who the devil is this Mr.Thomas Poker, that recommends the prayer of the petition?
The fellow imagines all the world must have heard of him.