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Sydney 27 Janry 1808
Sir
  We the under signed beg leave to offer
you our most greatifull thanks for
your manly and honourable interposi
tion to rescue us from an order of things
that threatened the destruction of all
which men can hold dear - We
heil you Sir as the Protector of
our property liberty lives & reputation.
  In this moment of joyful [indecipherable]
exultation we must not however be
unmindfull of our future security &
with a view to the arrival in this Colony
of any officer superior to yourself in
Rank before his Majesties most gracious pleasure shall be known respecting
the supercession of Gov Bligh - we take
the liberty respectfully to represent
that we think that you ought / before
you resign the command / to stipulate
that that officer shall confirm the
measures you most wisely adopted -

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