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Maintenance at £20 per ann) has been Constructed at no other expence to the Crown (as no Artificer has been paid in Money) than the labour of the Convicts -
Having already been honord with your Graces opinion, respecting my conduct in suppressing the Mutiny among the Soldiers on Norfolk Island in 1794, & of the orders then given by Lieutenant Gover Grose, by your Graces letter to Governor Hunter - I shall forbear troubling your Lordship with the conclusion of that event, which terminated in a satisfactory manner to myself, the reinstatement of order among the Soldiers, & the - tranquillity of the Inhabitants: and accepting that temporary interruption, the utmost regularity & good order has prevaild from the time the Island was settled - in 1788, until my departure in 1796 - which will be further secured by the establishment of a criminal Court, the Patent for which was not receivd until April 1796 - previous to which all complaints were settled & determined on by myself as a Magistrate -
To trouble your Grace with any further particulars of my conduct - would be too great a trespass on your time, particularly when I reflect that your Grace & Predecessors in Office have been constantly informd from time to time by myself & the governors of the Territory, not only of such events as have occurrd in the progressive steps of the charge I was honord with, but also of my conduct & that of those under me.
Permit me to assure your Lordship, that a Severe & long illness alone, inducd me to solicit Governor Hunter's perission to returnn to England for the re-establishment of my health, which is so far recruited as to renew my hopes of being long usefull in any situation that his Majesty's Service may require. And I trust not to be thought presuming in stating in the most respectful manner, that the only Savings