State Library of NSW
[MS 114]
Mr Rowland Hassel By favour of Brother Crook & recd the 25th of Nov 1803.
[MS 115]
London Sep. 12. 1803 My Dear Brother Hearing that 2 ships are soon to sail for N Holland I embrace the opportunity of writing. I am sorry to find that you have lost your place, but trust your representation of it is just & that your character will not suffer by it. I have confidence in you that you would do nothing you believe to be wrong, for it is of great consequence in your situation, as a religious man in the midst of [indecipherable] that you [have] yourself a truly honest man & very accurate & conscientious in all your dealings. I shall be very glad to hear that you have recovered your place & hope you may, as by your letter to Coventry which I have seen, it appears that the Governor's Lady seemed think your cause good. You perhaps have heard that I have removed from Coventry & I doubt not will be grieved as well as all our dear old friends there. But I conceive that the situation I am called to here, as Secretary to the Missionary Society & Editor of the Magasine, will [afford] me far more extensive opportunities of usefulness. Indeed I could no longer endure Coventry, for the [abominable], [wasted] vicious & cruel behaviour of the people in 2 late Elections made me greatly dislike my situation, & non religious people had no small share of blame in that affair. I hope the Lord will [indecipherable] for West Orchard, a student from Hoxton was with them & is to go
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