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an arrest of the Governor from his extreme ill conduct in the Colony, & that in consequence of what was then alledgd against him he deposited his Military character in England by selling his Commission & Returned to New South Wales in a Civil one.
From this detail fact, it may fairly be deduced that his conduct while Resident in the Colony does not merit Reward, had not his Talents & his Employment there been more of a conformable to his mercantile Education than to his Military nature Profession he could not, as he actualy is said to have done, have increasd his Property without the use of Capital of any kind, from the simple pay of a Lieut in the Army to the amount of £30,000 at least but the only ostensible traffic he had or indeed that only one he could have had, was first in the exchange of the necessaries, the Stock granted by Government and the little property acquird by new Settlers & emancipated convicts, for Spirituous Liquors rated at a Price all but incredible to reasonable men. To often it is feard will help inebriate victims who from former habits were ready under these unfortunate circumstances the first effects of Liquor to give without hesitation any Price that could be askd, for the indulgence of their Favorite Vice of intoxication & afterwards in monopolising the cargoes of vessels arriving at Sydney & selling them to great advantage before the ships were unloaded, in this Trade several Partners in general took a joint concern.