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An Account of the Rebellion
N.S.W.
Government House Sydney
New South Wales 30th June 1808
My Dear Sir
1st My dispatches by the Duke of Portland on 31st October will have communicated my favorable accounts of the Colony, and its welfare continued to the infinite satisfaction of every good Person until the 25th January last.
2d The Country became well cultivated the Settlers and Landholders had a Market for whatever their Labours produced, and confidence in each other was bringing about every good which was expected; and to add to this, the Convicts were become reconciled, and contented in their situations as servants, feeling no oppression, or wanton punishment.
3rd When Ships arrived, the usual impositions were suppressed; the necessaries which they introduced were open to every ones purchase; and by this means the numerous People in the Country had opportunities to releive [relieve] their wants, without being as much subject to the wicked monopolizing Persons, who heretofore had been making themselves rich, on the Vitals of the Poor.
4th On the 1st day of this Year, under an impression of what I had done for them they presented
The Right Honorable
Sir Joseph Banks Bart K.B.