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Soho Square
Aug. 29. 1804
My dear Sir
As the opportunity by which I now write is not a Kings ship, I shall not say much on the Points we usualy correspond upon, all worth mentioning is that I had a great loss in Lord Hobarts going out of Office for I had just prevailed upon his Lordship & Mr Sullivan his Secretary to understand the History of your Colony & was in hopes of going on Better than I ever have done when his Lordship resigned.
I have a new task to undertake to bring Lord Camden & Mr Cooke into the same happy disposition. I do not however despair of doing it before the ship whatever she may be, that is to replace the Porpoise is fitted out, & I shall struggle hard to get a Garden on board her & some Shephards Dogs.
What is become of Heming I do not know he came to me on his arrival & found me sick in my bed, where I lay near 3 months when I got up Heming was not to be found I concluded therefore that he has got some Birth either honest or dishonest, which he likes better than an appointment in your Colony, which from the recommendation you give me I should have struggled hard to obtain for him.
Barellier came to me as soon as he arrivd having learnd that his unintelligible journals had been sent to me & requested to borrow them that he might correct them & transcribe them fair, I put them into his hands on condition of receiving them back, he soon after went to Milford where his Father is building a large ship for Government & I have not since heard of him. The Stones he brought from the mountains are in my hands, but nothing in them seems to promise either scientific or profitable discovery. The many things you have been so good as to send to me by the Glatton & the Greenwich came safe & so I trust have those by the Calcutta, I have got Mr Browns Plants & Mr Westhalls Drawings, the rest will come up in a day or two.
The Root you send me & propose as a substitute for Hops does not taste bitter or very little so, it has a bad taste which would spoil the Beer, your Hops will