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which I could not however, let sail, without writing to you. My Daughter and her Husband are extremely well, without whom I should have been completely forlorn. This Society is but small they shall however be as happy as we can make them & they seem very much rejoiced at our arrival. Mr. Marsden accompanies King home in the Buffalo and will soon return again.
The Porpoise I have nothing to say to but on duty she brought valuable Stores for the Buffalo & clothing for the New S. Wales Corps which is intirely ruined, from great neglect. I have been obliged to send the Surveys home which has been held on them, and he has brought again his Ship into Port full of defects. He is taken no notice of, & has his family on board. King nor myself have any orders to give him any land, but he has a letter signed Camden directed to him wh. mentions there would be 600 acres granted to him by me on my arrival, it is an odd circumstance as I left England under Lord Castlereagh. C. Short has been pleased enough to offer my Son in Law the Ship if he and Sir Joseph Banks