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April 7 1806
Dear Sir
By a vessell which left London 10th Septr on a Voyage of Private Speculation it was mentioned in some of the papers that Capt Bligh is coming out to Relieve me, and as I understand the new Porpoise & Lady Nelson transport are coming & may be expected in two months. I have bye my arrangements I preparing the Buffalo for a voyage home and if nothing intervenes to alter my present dispositions I hope to quit this about October. I shall Sir return to England as I left it in pecuniary matters, which is very far from being a sufficiency for the current living in England, but I thank God my hands and my heart will not be less clean, and as my conscience tells me that my Conduct during my administration has been directed to advancing the Individual & collective welfare of the Colony during the time it I have been here, I shall have that Charge & account for it with that confident certitude which I trust will [indecipherable] save me a blush for any public or private conduct in discharging a Trust, I ever performed and or economy & excuse Trials as I have met with & with every Govr. of N.S. Wales mainly by his [indecipherable] with experiencing if he does his Duty to his God his King & Country.
Cayley's letter will inform you of his trip to V.D. Land. The ship he was to have returned to England in goes to India as before her the Lady Barlow is detained in England - the Sydney had aboard 550 tons of Oyl & 30,000 Seal skins in which time there has been much success in acquiring the latter upwards of 160,000 skins having been taken on the Islets [indecipherable] in 18 months.
I have forwarded in a Box to the Secretary of State with their dispatches some letters for Col Paterson & Col Collins.
I had got thus far with this letter & intending to send it by the Tellichery [Tellicherry] by way of India
April 9 1807