State Library of NSW
181 Sydney 27 Janry 1808 Sir We the under signed beg leave to offer you our most greatifull thanks for your manly and honourable interposi tion to rescue us from an order of things that threatened the destruction of all which men can hold dear - We heil you Sir as the Protector of our property liberty lives & reputation. In this moment of joyful [indecipherable] exultation we must not however be unmindfull of our future security & with a view to the arrival in this Colony of any officer superior to yourself in Rank before his Majesties most gracious pleasure shall be known respecting the supercession of Gov Bligh - we take the liberty respectfully to represent that we think that you ought / before you resign the command / to stipulate that that officer shall confirm the measures you most wisely adopted -
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