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that you have endeavoured to lead their attention to useful employments, and especially that you have been assiduous in the education and improvement of as many Children as possible as upon this circumstance we greatly depended for your eventual utility.

We hope, also, it will appear that the Missionary Sisters have discharged their duty to the female Natives, as we placed great reliance on their fidelity and formed considerable expectations of advantage from their intercourse with them.

We must, however, wait for satisfactory information hereon till we receive your dispatches and shall now proceed to Consider your present situation.

Capt Bishop's letter is dated the 10 Sept. from Port Jackson at which period we suppose you had been a Considerable time there as it appears the Nautilus sailed from Otaheite the 30 March. what reception you met with, or in what way you have been employed we are unacquainted. with, on these accounts, as well as because of the uncertainty we are in the as to the necessity of your relinquishing your former Stations, we find it difficult to enter upon this subject.  Altho, Brethren, there is no legal or Compulsory Connection subsisting betwixt you & us. You being solely responsible for your own Conduct, and the Society in no respect accountable for your transactions. yet as you were so gratuitously and liberally supplied and at an immense expense to
 


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the religious public, with all the articles of your equipment, and as they have therefore so strong a demand both on your gratitude to them, and devotedness to the Heathen, we have no doubt you will pay a respectfull attention to what we may suggest in regard to your present Circumstances 

As we trust and sincerely hope Brethren that you preserve unabated the desire to be instrumental to promote the glory of God & the interests of his Kingdom. We express to you our ardent wish that you may find means of accomplishing this great duty without returning to your native Country. We have reason to believe that your example, your conversation and your influence in various ways may tend to promote our object in the Colony where we presume you are now placed,  On this subject you will doubtless pay especial regard to the experience and advice of the Revd M Johnson and Mr Marsden, whose Countenance and regard you will respectfully seek, very probably you may have the opportunity of being useful in the education of the Children of the Convicts, and among the Convicts themselves   Long before this reaches you, the Hillsborough will most likely have delivered at the Colony the Convicts she took out, and we have the great satisfaction to inform you that thro' the blessing of God on the unwearied labours of Dr Van der Kemp and his associates, sent out by the Missionary Society in this Vessel as far as the Cape, several of them appeared to perceive those divine impressions[...] their Souls which will render your

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