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free Settlers (No 24). I farther inclose two grateful Addresses to me from the Settlers the one on account of the encouragement I gave to the cultivation of Grain (No 25) and the other on the suppression of an intended Insurrection the beginning of last year requesting the ring leaders to be disposed of so as to prevent further Troubles (No 26). This Cheif [Chief] of this conspiracy, Dwyer who was banished to Norfolk Island and was to have been kept at the Derwent has been sent for by the present rulers - an extraordinary circumstance, for which no reason can be assigned, unless they propose by their indulgence to him, to induce him hereafter to unite with his old Party in an opposition to Government should they feel his assistance necessary.
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25, 26
118 - I shall now conclude with observing to you ____ that I am ignorant of what their real intentions are with respect to myself. I am still kept a Prisoner to this House under various pretences, as I have already stated, by the Centinels [Sentinels], one of whom when I walk in
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