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except them is broken-spirited, and agriculture very much neglected. Relief from England is the only comfort they look to. They Rebels appear to have had much fluctuation in their opinions how to act. It is now said to rest with Lieutenant Governor Paterson, to whom Lieutenant Colonel Foveaux has sent the Estramina Colonial Schooner.
I am under much difficulty with respect to Sending home my dispatches having no particular person to whose care I can entrust them, but the Master of the Ship Rose. The friends about me are so few, I cannot dispense with their Services
I herewith transmit the State and condition of His Majesty's Ship Porpoise, on the 30th of July and this instant. and under the fullest confidence that I shall have every relief sent to me.
I have the honor to be, Sir, your
most obedient
humble Servant
(Signed) Wm. Bligh
To
The Honorable William Wellesly Pole
Secretary to the Admiralty