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We have an undoubting confidence that your Excellency, by a just, firm and wise government will promote the happiness of all who deserve it, and we trust that no false impressions to the prejudice of any of the Subjects over whom you are to rule, will bear weight, in your Excellency's mind, but we entreat you to, and doubt not but you will govern us with an impartial hand, and do honor to the high and important trust our most gracious King has been pleased to depute to your charge; and we feel animated by a pleasing hope that under your Excellency's auspices, agriculture will flourish, commerce increase, and we as british Subjects enjoy our countries constitutional rights; and let us assure your Excellency that we are well aware it is the indispensable duty of us all to hold a reverential regard to the laws under which we have been brought up, and to chearfully acquiesce in such measures as your Excellency may adopt for the good of the Colony, and the true interest and happiness of all descriptions of it's inhabitants.
We with every due submission to your Excellency beg to State our ignorance of the former addresses which appeared in the Sydney Gazette, one to the late Governor King, and the other to your Excellency, at the foot of which appears the name of John McArthur Esqr, "for the free inhabitants", nor do we hesitate, in saying that it never was our intention to address the former, and that we consider such addresses being signed for us by a person undeputed and unauthorized, as an infringment on our rights and privileges, as well as being contrary to justice and equity, and as it is not our general voice, we proclaim it to be in our opinions, highly unconstitutional, as well as he the said John McArthur's taking a liberty, that we never have allowed, nor can nor will Sanction. And we beg to observe, that had we deputed anyone, John McArthur would not have been chosen by us, we considering him an unfit person to step forward, upon such an occasion as we may chiefly attribute the rise, in the price of mutton to his withholding