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Sydney New South Wlaes
March 12th 1798.
Dear Sir
It was not my intention to have fatigued you with any Letter by this Conveyance, having been probably more full than Satisfactory in My last, which went from hence in the Ship Britannica (Dinnel) Via Canton, & was dated 30th March last 97 altho that Ship did not leave us untill August - but as other circumstances occurd between those dates of which I wish'd to give you some Account, you woud receive them in Separate letters at the same time.
Your influence Sir Joseph in such Matters as relate to this Colony, I am convinc'd will ever be Considerable from your local knowledge. Your advice will Consequentlly be resorted to in various Matters which may Concern it. Having Myself been at the first planting it, I feel an Anxious wish for its prosperity & the happiness of its Inhabitants, but feeling myself at same time responsible to His Majestys Ministers for such of its Concerns as are immediatly under my direction; I have seen it Necessary from time to time to be very Candid & explicit in my representations to the Duke of Portland, that His Grace may thereby be the better enabled to furnish me with the requisite Instructions: from these Considerations I have had recent occasion to mention to His Grace, how very much I regretted, that any Necessity shoud have occur'd to occasion the sending to this Colony so large a proportion of the Irish Coonvicts; they are in general so very turbulent
Sir Joseph Banks (K.B.)