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comply with whatever reputation you may have it in your power to make for the advantage of the settlement which no doubt wil thrive under under a steady and fresh government administration with due spirit conveying [indecipherable] & cheerfulness. Going out Captain of a Man of War is no object to me it is a confined sphere without receiving the benefit of Your labour. I could have wished to have had my son in law made a Captain, but that is not to embarrass You My Dear Sir who as Mrs Bligh says we have always regarded as our kind and good Friend. I cannot express how much I feel Your attention in giving up so much of Your time to her in explaining circumstances for which she and my little girls are so thankful - they seem reconciled as much as I can expect to my leaving them, and I really believe Mrs Bligh would not live a week on board of Ship. My Rank going on is of great consequence. I am at a loss My Dearest Sir to proceed to get superceded, for I should not have it appear that I wrote to that intent, because then it will stand against me thereafter, not withstanding