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it has given me an opposition in a few, whose ways and [indecipherable] could have brought all below them to a state of vassalage, and those above them to their own level. A friend to Government and good Society they cannot bear, but of all this perhaps you may be informed through other channels, which will be better. One circumstance however I should tell you. My Lord Castlereagh having at the last of Harrington's request appointed a Mr. Gore to be Provost Marshal, he came out in the Ship I did & superceded a Mr. Blaxcel (one of Mr. McArthur's friends who is head of that insignificant party) which was not at all liked and various plans were adopted to injure him but without effect, at last, in a most wicked manner they some of the Party got a Fellow called Underwood, who is gone home in the Sydney Cove, to prosecute Mr. Gore for passing a fifteen shilling Note improperly, and the Gaoler to prosecute him for stealing a piece of green stone not worth sixpence which he