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10 Oct 1807
ease or comfort but to do justice and silence the oppressed poor Settlers who must be the support of the Country and are honester Men than those who wish to keep them under.
The same characters you had suspicions of in Governor Kings time are now existing; but Government House is a like to all - and what it should be, but no particular intimacies - that has been the main hitherto.
The arduosness of my situation is very great. My Public Dispatches are to arrange & which I shall send by the Duke of Portland, you will then be sure of hearing from me again, in the midst of all this My beloved Daughter's Husband is in a dying State. They have been a inestimable Treasure to me but we must lose him being in the last stage of a consumption.
Remember my Dear Sir I never failed in any thing, I undertook be aprised still of my high sense of Honor & Dignity in the present Instance I think Providence would never have allowed me to have passed so much