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<^ poftunhy , with all the sympathy tb ^ y aesdrve ^ and to . those fnen 4 s endeared by distance , w ^ &te pleased to interest themselves aikxut tne .
I aai , dear Sir , TfdUf much obliged and affectionate T . F . PALMER . Tke Hfefc . Dr . Disney . fReceiyed May 4 , 1790 . ] ^
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- _ . _ .. , •» Try : short al || wa&f& in 17 ^ tfca * poo * Serving if ^ t ^ pl ^ s tjk % caijsptqf nis . deai ^ , fo" * wli 3 nmi , uje o % $ & $ , and otherwise cfejwlef ^ a pagr ft ^ jng . The quick an 4 exU < ime vicissitudes of the cliqfiate are rather possi&ly l < *© much for a broken " down pl <| pnan | ike me . To the young and the roJbast thev
are nothing , who lie owt in ihe woa ^ 6 without harm . My felloyvrSviffer e ^ s laugh at nie , but I have no scruple | fi saying it is the finest country I ev e * saw . An honest and active governor , who could administer an equaj government , might soon make it the region , of plenty . In spite of ^ 11 possible rapacity and robbery , I am clear that it will thrive against every obstacle .
There may come a tune when the settler shall reap what he has sown ; at present , from necessity , he is obliged to sell to an avaricious huckster This wheat at 3 s . per bushel , who turns h into the stores at JOs . the price jprhich government gives for it . fie buys liquor at 3 s . per gallon , and charges ft at J& 3 . j £ 4 . and . perchance five poiu * 4 s
per gallon . Tobacco he buys 41 \§ 4 * and sells it to the poor farmer and labourer at 7 s- and 10 s . a pound . Tt * e same of every thing else . If he raises Indian corn , or wheat , it is of little use to him . He niusfsell . it for what h $ c ^ n get to these h ucksters . JFf e can not » like them , turn it into the storgsr . Thijs 16 a matter of interest . We hav * :
laid o « t wfcat wouW » eB M ^ e ftwri ||^ a . on a farm , and we never could " typo * interest tp turn only fojrly bosbels in , from the time we have been iu l ^ Uf island . If , like other settlers , hmn necessity wg have been driven to deal with these hucksters , nothing so easy then as to turn in to the amount m the debt , be the stores shut or *> f > ett , but not one farthing on oar a * vu account .
By these means Ae colony is ruined . All die necessaries ^ i re d oubrle the price they were when we landedjEvery lacaier and settle * ia on ^ f a ^* naut at rack fent % q jihe officers . ( £ & vcrnment is at an itnnftena ^ ^? cp € ^ c # for no other paxpo ^ e tbau t ^ uM ^ ftlMF into the pocket of ih ^ se a $ ^ ris . A jy | of them keep buckst ^ w skop ^ wbeffi
you laay buy from a d 4 Gajna | o * 4 > ti #$ ? h ^^ of spirits , —iVom 3 stogo U > ^ p ^ f ^ i of tbr « jad . I cannot afai £$ to j ^ with , — ! hope that it has been Mppdbr oui ~ - ~ t : be guvejraor * s k « owled ^| , )> at tiic greatest and most extortionate shop
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Letter IV . Sydney 1 N . S . fFales , Aug . 14 , 1 797-Mt Dear Sir , I BHG leave to return you my ivp ^ riTi thanks for your mos t friendly and consoling letfer . It would be the s ^ erest dro p in my cup to be forgotten by such men . The esteem and approbation of the worthy ace next to that of
one * s own-mind . I received two or three little pamphlets , with all the Morning Chronicles to Apr il , accompanying your letter . W ^ have read ove r and over all our little stock of books , therefore any celebrated pamphlets that our frienefs h ^ ive don e with , it would be charity to
9 ej * d . Your noble gift of the JEncyclopaeaia has been of infinite use and entertainment to us . * It has instructed us in arts necessary to a livelihood : an interested and powerful monopoly of trading officers , who have the art to jpersuade an old man to just what they please , have thrown every impediment possihle to OUT getting an honest one .
Jout , in spite of ail , we have weathered oar point . In a great . measure owing to tbe help of your Kncydop&edia we n built and navigated a little vessel . We meant it for fishing , but as we could not have the smallest encouragement for what was so evidently for the puhjic good , we have made it a mercantile vessel , and trade from hence to Norfolk Island , a thousand miles distant . To he sure we axe obliged to
sail without licence or certificate ( which the governor , poor man , positively refuses ) , and are liable to be hanged as pirates by any bod y that chuses Lo gire himself that trouble . x lf paper should coutmoe of value , I hope we shall not return to Europe poorer than we came .
¥ As many (* olame » of the Scotch ftoc&lqQfmflff 90 $ were thett 4 f » ubli » h *^^ vem * pfti $ gu * te £ U ± Mr ** Jh $$ K 8 t 9 by the jotnt , conuibutioos of a few friends , Jbeforc hha
departure from £ n ^ land 4
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1817, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2464/page/8/
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