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past - and with the Ministers permission I am now now distributing a Portion of Government Stock to Individuals for which they are to[pay wheat. But if ever the free admission of Spirits, is again tolerated, my unpopular exertions to suppres them will fail, and once more this Colony will be devoted to that feculate [?] & oppressive monopopoly [monopoly] it has so lately been rescued from.
I have Sir entered on this subject with you as the kind attention you have been pleased to honour me with, has appeared to me a duty I owe my friends to undeceive them suspecting the vile assertions that have been propagated respecting me & by none more so than by Capt Colnett, who I am told has proferred a written complaint against me to the Admiralty. Had I on his repeated importunities committed myself by the most flagrant abuse of the high authority delegated to the Governor of this Colony; by giving a free Pardon to a Female Convict for life who had never landed from the Glatton, I might in