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New South Wales
Sir
The present unfortunate state of this colony will I trust excuse me for thus troubling you; I deem it my Duty to give you what information I can in order that the great end of public Justice may be obtained - Everyone is now anxiously expecting returns from England, which may put an end to our distress by restoring His Excellency Governor Bligh to the exercise of his lawful authority - But an event has lately taken place here which has excited the most fanciful apprehensions in the loyal inhabitants; the Governor who has undergone a long and painful confinement, was a few days back forced from his house; and taken through the streets of Sydney in the most galling manner; his affectionate Daughter following after him in the agony of her greif unknowing what might be the fate of her father for it was justly apprehended that his life might fall a sacrifice which in the hands of men so deeply involved in guilt - I surmis they wished to extort his signature from him to a certain paper in order to which they had recourse to such inhuman treatment; and closely confined the Governor in the Barracks where he was surrounded by soldiers, shut up with his Daughter Mrs Putland, in a miserable appartment, and no person allowed to speak to him, or attend upon him, but the soldiers - Our apprehensions are in some degree removed since he has been returned at his house; where he is allowed to remain a few days; at the expiration of which, he is to be forced out of the colony - Such a measure may for a time serve his enemies by delaying Justice but must in the end will the Dreadful account against them - - - - -
It is hardly possible to conceive a man more innocent or more [indecipherabl] than Gov Bligh