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I was very tpuch p leased wi ^ h ^ akefu-UTs pamphlet . 1 sf « t a fcerraagt with it to a friend some miles distant , who unfortunately was robbed of it because it was tiixl in a s-ilk , handkerchief . I mu&t beg you therefore to send me another , and LlandafTs also .
Mr . and Mrs . Boston and two children , KIlis and myself have always Jived together since we have been on the Island . We have engaged in many schemes to make a living . Among the rest , brewing and farming ,
and what every officer civil and military does here , buying goods on board a ship and selling them on shore . We built a '' vessel at considerable expence to trade between this place and Norfolk Island , and a very beneficial trade it was . But the Governor of Norfolk
Island for the time being ( Captain T- ¦¦ ¦ . * ¦) , being a great trader himself , found that it interfered with his
profits , and raised the strongest clamours against the enormous price we sold at . We sold liquor at 25 s . per gallon , and he at that very time sold it at five pounds ; At last he would not suffer us to land it at all ,
notwithstanding we had Governor Hunter ' s permit . We suppose the crew on this rose and seized the spirits , for we never more heard of captain or ship . It would have made our fortune soon . I am ashamed to say how much we lost . W " e were not disheartened . We set
to and built another at a great expence , loaded her with a cargo that would make good returns , and sent her to Norfolk again . We had previously made a good quantity * of salt to cure the cheap pork of Norfolk Island , and to put it into the stores here where it is so much wanted . This has been
gone now five months . The gales have been dreadful , and we have every reason to fear that she is lost likewise : so that we have nearly the world to begin again . As there is little chance of my being able to draw any thing out of the
company ' s stock to enable me to get home , I must take another method . * * * ^ § nd that the cerated g lass of antimony with ipecacuanha , will cure the yp ^ jjst inveterat ^ jSax ^ s of this country ia , a day or twp . So little attention is p # id to tl > e sick , that 1 am obliged to doctor some , though I know that I do it with a rope abaut iny neck . I
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won Id not change my residence for a week without these merffc&ies , so very subject I arn to this disorder . I know that I should long have been dead , but
for them . 1 give seven or ten grains of cerated antimony and alternately small doses of ipecacuanha . Oh had 1 known of this remedy at Spithead , what lengthened misery and wear and tear of constitution I should have
escaped . Possibly Gerald and Skirving might now have been alive ! Pray tell this to Dr . Hamilton and fitake . I wish Mr . Holcroft would send me the remaining volumes of Hugh Trevor . 1 was delighted with the three first . 1 think the first volume as good as any I ever read . The infancy of Hugh is inimitable . It is odd that I never
sawbut one person in this country who could perceive the tendency of the work , though it is so very conspicuous . I have not seen a Review since 17 jK >» nor an Annual Register since 1 ? 93 , and onl y four numbers of that excellent work the London fMonthly ] Magazine . I cannot speak enough in praise of the C I = . Tell
Mr . F— to be careful . I am going to fit up a room for the wtfrthy editor , well knowing he will come out here . IF £ deserve to be sent to Botany Bay , fie ought to be sent to the Georgium Sidus . The following is the price of articles at present . Rum 20 s . a quart ; tea 5 s .
an ounce ; bread 4 d . a pound ; butter 4 s . ; mutton 2 s . ; pork Is . 3 d . ; wKeat JOs . a bushel : wine 10 s . a bottle :
slices from 2 Qs . to 25 s . a pair . That you see it is absolutely necessary td do something for a livelihood . I fotiot to tell you that we have nearly built a windmill , which we are in great hopes will turn to good account .
Recommend me to lho £ e worthy friends , the very mention of whom in your letter I could hot help being ; affected with , viz . Hamilton , Gurr > ey Lindsey , Dyer , Vaughan , Frend , Tooke , Disney , Blake , and all who are pleased to interest themselves about
me . Farewell , dear Sir , with my besl respects to Mrs . Rutt , I am , Your much obliged and affectionate T . F . PALMER . X T . ft *" , Esg . [ Received April 3 , Mtyp . } .
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Letters J Vom Thomas Muir , Esq . end the Rev . T . P . Palmer . 267
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1817, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2464/page/11/
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