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was on his voyage hither. Report states that Lieut Coll Foveaux was in the Lady Sinclair, and had another Ship with him called the Recovery, and that they had about two hundred Troops on board.
117 - I feel great regret at the lenth [length] of this Dispatch, but the remoteness of the Colony and this momentous occasion require that nothing should be omitted which can any way develope the designs of these Persons. The extraordinary Hydra of New South Wales differing only from the mythological description of that Serpent, by affixing six of his heads on the shoulders of others he had prepared for them, induces me to add still farther some marks of his Character. Before I took command of the Colony great ill will had subsisted between the Government the Military Officers and this McArther; with the Settlers and people he was the most hated Person it is possible to conceive. The first Address, No 18 presented to me was signed by Major Johnston "for the Military" Mr Atkins "for the Civil" and McArthur "for the free Inhabitants" expressing their affection and loyalty: I received
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