Copy of letter received by Elizabeth Bligh from Banks, 24 December 1808 (Series 42.06) - No. 0002

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he took out with him unsullied & unabated & will have a clear claim on the future Patronage of Government on account of the unmerited & abominable treatment he has undergone & that altho the hopes his Relatives & his Friends indulgd themselves in of his being able by the Emoluments of his Government to make an increased provision for his Family are now dissipated that he will in future proceed in life as prosperously at least as he has hitherto done & that his Friends will increase rather than be diminished by the singular nature of the untoward circumstance which has so unexpectedly thwarted his views & disappointed his hopes of increasing his Property.