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aspires to the Government, and has even a Military orderly to attend him, and light Horsemen when he rides into the Country are made on example of, all will be well.
115 - When in my dispatch of the 31st of October last, I spoke of the New South Wales Corps, little did I think, that the principal reason I urged in support of my position, its becoming a dangerous Militia, would have so soon been exemplified.
116 - Having received no information from Major Johnston as to his intentions respecting me in consequence of the return of His Majesty's Ship Porpoise from Port Dalrymple on the 20th of last month (Paragraph 88); I wrote a letter to him on the 18th Instant stating I had been in daily expectation of receiving some notice from him respecting Lieutenant Governor Paterson on whom he had before written to me, his future plans depended, after some day he answered, that he had deferred coming to any determination until the arrival of Lt Colnl. [Colonel] Foveaux who was daily expected, as a Ship called the Cumberland from England which arrived here on the 22nd had brought an Account that he was
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