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of my duty: The perseverence of my disposition under difficult Situations is pretty well known in the Service I have been bred in, & therefore I will venture to say that every attempt to induce me by artful means & Studied Embarrassments to quit my Station will be found ineffectual, altho God knows the miserable Saving I can possibly make from My Sallary in this Expensive Country, and that is all my advantage, can be no Object for desiring to Continue in it a Moment longer, but I cannot Submit to be driven by [Studied?] difficulty, that is not the way to incline me to Vacate my appointment irksome as it has long been from the Neglect I have experienced, yet if it is really desired, it will only be necessary to give me information & the reason why it is wished, and I will be found all Obedience, in our present Circumstances I have not a Moment of Comfort or enjoyment; We are now receiving a Considerable [indecipherable] of Convicts of the very worst description, but I hear not a Word of any Ship with Salt Provisions, & we are now reducd as low as five Months for the People we had before this Arrival; Much has been said & seems to be expected from our Stock of Live Cattle which are Certainly in a very thriving way, what they are it is not possible Govt can be unacquainted, because returns have been made but if it is expected that when our Salt meat is out, we shoud fall upon our Valuable Stock , the whole both Public & Private will be distroy'd in less than One Year, and the Colony will be thrown back so far from a Prospect of independance, that I can scarcely Calculate the time of its recovery or the Expences it will Create; in short Sir Joseph I have great & Just Cause to feel much hurt at the little Notice which has been taken of my representations, & I rely on Your goodness