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Government House Sydney
26 August 1806
My Dear Sir
You will now have the satisfaction of knowing of my arrival at this place in good health and without accident. After a passage of fifty one days I anchored in Sydney Cove on the 6th Instant, the Porpoise in company with us. I found our friend King & his family well but he was in a few days after laid up in the first sometimes confined to his Bed, at Parramatta where the Family went after my Commission was read, & I took the reigns into my own hands on the 14th Instant. His being succeeded by me has given him great comfort as by my regard for him he has felt no trouble or uneasyness in arranging his affairs to enable him to quit the Colony with every satisfaction to himself. You will have heard of great losses which the Settlers have had at the Hawkesbury by the inundation in March last. The unfortunate Settlers are almost ruined and starved which, together with all public Stores &
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