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June 8 1806
An ill considered review has gone abroad & appears at present to influence the judgement of many sober persons, it is that the Colony of N.S.W. should never be permitted to grow advance to any considerable state of considerable prosperity lest the population who should detach itself from the mother country & become an State independent State formidable to the East India Co. either by being a nest of Pyrates & Robbers or a mutineer nation capable of making war upon England & keeping the Indian seas under its check & control.
As an example of a similar revolt the case of the American colonies is held forth & the difficulty of controlling them who are so much nearer to us held up as an experiment to prove that the difficulty of controlling the Colony of Sydney must be increased by is an arithmetic its immense distance in an arithmetic proportion to the difference of distance at the least, if not in a geometrical one.
Meaning in the first place that when the American war took place the temper of the Colonies were not at all inclind to urge any unreasonable proposition upon the government of the Mother Country & the Question which brought on the Rebellion as it was called was an atrocious set of Constitutional injustices on the part of England such a one as every freeborn Englishman would at this hour resent & [indecipherable] himself to oppose it may fairly be asked as a question likely to be decided in the affirmative that if England had not after leaving granted the Rights of representation & of Legislation & her Colonists attempted to set them without their Consent they would now have been dutifull subjects, of the utmost importance to the mother country in carrying on her present meritorious war instead of being as they are Leaches who suck the blood of their poorest by dishonest & dishonourable advantages given to the Traders under their neutral flag.