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himself rich on their vitals, is virtually now the Governor of the Colony.
All my books and public and private papers have taken from me, and I have nothing but my memory to guide me.
Whether this will ever reach their Lordships is a doubt, or I either; for it is highly probable my dispatches will be landed, and destroyed after they have applied them to their purpose, and if private murder can be effected there are persons her who will perpetrate the deed for a bottle of spirituous liquor, but my whole security is in the affection of the settlers and landholders, who, to the amount of nine hundred, sent me a dutiful address, on the first day of this year.
The opportunity I write by is the ship Brothers, Russel Master, in her is sent home a Lieutenant Minchin of the New South Wales Corps, and his servant Marlborrough