* " It was not suspicion," thus his renunciation runs, "of the justice or gratitude of the , company ; nor a consciousness that my services could evttr become useless to thorn, hut the ingratitude of some individuals, which made it common prudence on my part to ask a retribution for six years' time and ten thousand pounds spent in establishing the company. But now I see it standing on the authority of Parliament, and supported by so many great and good men, I release all claim to that retribution ;— happy in the noble concession made to me, but happier iv the returu I cm now make for it." *f* The East Indies (to be traded with from the opposite side of the isthmus) had been unhappily inseited in the charter to Paterson's company, as being within the limits of their power to trade ; and, in order to uive themselves as wH- :\ scope as possible, " Africa" bad been also added.
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Clutha Leader, Volume VIII, Issue 428, 23 December 1881, Page 7
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