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tive hand of God visited MrsThrelkeld and our first born at Rio de Janeiro, and removed it from this world, the which delayed us on our Voyage: What courtesy or regard to feeling was manifested in the corresponding Secretary in hiss communication to me stating that "You should have gone on in the Ship, The ilness of the babe was a flimsey pretext for staying. I believe the child was not then at all likely to live and whether it died on shore or on board was a matter of very little moment compared with the souls of men on account of which you were sent". !!! Could such correspondence engender feelings of love to such a Committee capable of respecting with a parents feelings. Again, what regard was paid to our feelings when we found in this Colony that is in reply to aa request from the missionaries on behalf of Widow Scott, the Committee ordered the Revd S. Marsden to put her to service in the Colony instead of allowing widows to return to their friends in England - to which the Revd Gentleman assured us to quiet our fears that he would not act on such a Disgraceful instruction! - Ask the survivors of the females whom you sent out to Islands under the solemn assurance of support and protection, whom you consigned to "the fatherly care of the Revd S. Marsden" and at the same time intimated to him that situations were to be provided for them at service in the colony during their stay, Ask them, what regard to feeling or delicacy or courtesy you have ever manifested , that ye should expect it in return - Enquire of any one at all acquainted with the common courtesies of life, wheteher the returning dishonoured bill of Exchange for which I was arrested, was calculated to excite in me regard to much courtesy in return to your to your uncourteous deeds, the which courtesy however I did regard in my publishing the statement but addressing it only to the Diocese and Missionaries of the society to whom it was sent.-
Your letter also attempts to charge me with "The great waste of the society's property, which has been the consig