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till his return, as to a further communication on the Subject.  As you will observe by his Accounts that there is no appearance of his [indecipherable] permitting him to be paid in advance.  He is now preparing to go to the Derwent by the first opportunity which I think will be the next month when he will have the advantage of going round by Norfolk Island & Port Dalrymple. You may be assured I shall give him every public & private facility for obtaining his errand.  If he does not get paper [?] soon he will be Bankrupt in that Article, however I will try to assist him with news-papers &c.

I have a great satisfaction in adressing the Remarks you are so kind to make on my publick conduct in the arduous tasks I have daily to perform, which a consciousnes of what I have had to contend with, makes me hope that I do not owe your Approbation, to that prejudice which a mind is apt to discover.  As my public dispatches have from time to time detailed my conduct I hope you have seen them.  Believe me Sir it is not so easy a task to merge the descriptions of which this Colony is mostly compared, altho I dare assert that neither Justice or Humanity to Individuals, and an unwearied attention to the 
 

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