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The Officers are so connected by property & intercourse with the emancipated Convicts both of Men & Women their influence affects public Justice. The Judge Advocate is a disgrace to human Jurisprudence. The Criminal & Civil Courts should be changed & regulated by Rules aproximating to those of England. The Offices of the Crown should be honorable Men & at least we should have an Attorney General as well as a Judge besides some respectable Lawyer as a Sollicitor. Let this be done and all will be well - at present justice is not duly administered in its first stages, and my decision in the last does not relieve the subject altogether for what he has suffered in the beginning of course of the Trial.
Norfolk Island is now to be evacuated & the setters to be removed to the Derwent & Port Dalrymple. No Patent is yet arrived to administer the Laws there, & the only Judge Advocate, Bates, is reported to me as another very bad character.
If Government supports my Dignity & determinations, things will go on right, & let them be aware of this, as I am not here for my