Volume 59: Archdeacon Scott letters, 1822-1844: No. 030
You are here
Primary tabs
Transcription
[page 30]
time to stop being made a Magistrate - that arch villain Kent of V.D.A. who is gone on & [indecipherable] more to Sydney who did not penetrate into the country 6 miles The accounts in the Sydney papers are untrue - the chief want is flour & like all new Colonies there is a scarcity or a glut - It is folly to abuse it for if they are in want why do not you supply them? The larger their consumption the better for you - I have strongly urged purchasing fine wool sheep; but have nothing to do with Mr Peel if he goes to Sydney unless he pays Room; he is deep in with Cooper & L. & has already swindled some of his passengers to the am.t of 1000£ promising they sh.d find stock here from Sydney on their arrival - He is ignorant [indecipherable] & has no system whatever & what his object in