ELDRED, William
27
Hall Staircase
Middle Temple
27 July 1819
My Lord,
I trust your Lordship will excuse my intrusion on your Lordship's attention, but being desirous of obtaining a law appointment in one of the colonies, I have taken the liberty of soliciting your Lordship to favour my views.
It is not consistent for me to choose either the colony or situation, but my Lord allow me to state that I should prefer either the East Indies (having some knowledge of the Bengalee language) the Cape of Good Hope or the projected settlement near there.
I beg to state that I have been in practice as an attorney and solicitor for 10 years and (should a reference be requisite) I feel confident that Mr Herbert BRACE of the Middle Temple to whom I served my clerkship and whose respectability is well-known to the present Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, Mr Thos. ABBOTT of the Terrace Inner Temple, the Revd. Dr WILLGRESS of Eltham, Kent or Mr Thos. HOUGH of Percy Street, Rathbone Place will give every satisfaction.
Permit me to add that my father has filled the office of Sub Treasurer to the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple for upwards of 30 years and is known to Sir W. SCOTT, Sir A. PIGGOTT, Mr [Serj’t] MAULEY and several other distinguished members of the profession.
I have the honour to subscribe myself
your Lordship's most obedient and very humble servant
Wm. ELDRED Jr.