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be two years old when this comes to hand, & will have born some fruit this season, next they will give you a good crop I would advise you therefore to wait with patience & not search for substitutes which if of ever so promising a nature might have evil effects on the human constitution.
I will enquire for Mr. Chapman, he called once upon me & and was not at home I wrote to him next day wishing to see him but have not & conclude he is gone into the country.
Poor Flinders you know I suppose put into l'isle de France for water & was detaind as a Prisoner & treated as a Spy, our Government have no communication with the French, but I have some with their Literary Men & have written with the Permission of Government to solicit his release & have sent in my letter a copy of the very hansome one Mr Baudin left with you if this should effect Flinders liberation which I think it will we shall both rejoice.
Allen the Miner has arrived, safe, he left his chief Collections, but among the few things he had preservd for himself I saw nothing worthy of much notice.
Your Linnen made from Flax grown at Sydney lays before me a very good Linnen it is I conclude you do not mean that it made of New Zealand Flax & I fear it is not a cheap article.
I do not think you need to trouble yourself about getting posession of the fine woold sheep for Government if the Project for Breeding them succeeds they must soon become so abundant that the genius of your people who will not let a Potatoe stay under ground till it is ripe will soon spread them over the Country.
A proposal has been made to institute a Company here with a Capital of £10,000 for the purpose of encreasing the breed of sheep which are to become the Property of the Subscribers, the wool I mean & the Mutton to remain that of Mr. MacArthur the Manager & Government have been applied to to make Grants of Land for that purpose I have advised that a Grant be made of a Million of Acres in such parts as Capt. MacArthur shall chuse at a proper distance from all settlements, for the sole purpose of feeding sheep resumeable at the will of Government whenever any part of it may be appropriated to tillage or other purposes on satisfaction being made for any stock houses on the Premisses resumd & an equal quantity of Land