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-nee of your irregular and unwarrantable mode of action and respecting which yoy have now become so sensitive"- This I retort with justice on you and the Deputation,. For what detained me at aa heavy expence in Sydney for several months but the difficulty of bringing the Deputation to act in concert, owing to the unhappy Quarrel betwixt them, risen to such a heigh as to cause the one to e at Parramatta when the other was at Sydney. A Quarrel began by G. Bennet Esqr on their embarkation from England, continued through the Voyage, which rended them unhappy in the Islands, and Ridiculed in this colony. - We pitied the late Revd D. Tyerman, who had he lived would have endeavoured to establish a better feeling betwixt the Committee and the Missionaries, this does at present exist throughout the work. - Who have this Lake so inaccessible at that time, that eve G. Bennet Esqr when we visited Newcastle for the purpose of receiving this spot could not be persuaded to face the difficulty of the journey but left it to me to accomplish aat considerable expense, at a considerable expence, at an unfavourable season of the year: Who [indecipherable] that the property of the Society should be expended in land revertable to the crown with all improvements, if given up by the Society to the now great waste of the Society's funds, the Deputation assuring the then Attorney General that there was no necessity for a saving clause the mission being intended to be permanent - and indeed had not that been promised I would not have allowed myself to be deprived of my flourishing Station in the South Seas for a mere temporary experiment - here then acts the deeds of G. Bennet Esq and the Revd D, Tyerman whose names are recorded in the deed of trust as "The Deputation sent out by the Society to visit and establish the Missionaries in the South Seas and the East" - So were the acts of L.E.Threkeld the Missionary, that the property is all now but, totally lost to the Society!!! - I wave further remarks on this head regretting that no missionary is safe either in