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Roman Catholics, Jews, and persons of all persuasions send their children to the public schools where they are all instructed in the principles of our established religion. I think God will bless the poor children of the exiles to this country, and from them will raise up a seed to serve him. The governor is very ready to meet my wishes relative to the schools, and the instruction of the children. I feel much obliged to him for his kindness in this respect. I believe Lord Castlereagh had impressed this object very strongly upon the governor's mind, in consequence of the kind part you took on behalf of the poor children. The blessings that must necessarily follow to this infant country, from the instruction of the rising generation cannot be estimated. They are already very great. Many hundred children were running about the street growing up in idleness and vice, when I left the colony, who are now diligently employed in memtal and moral improvement. This is a great happiness to my mind. I view the children with great delight and am thankful to God that I came to England and accomplished the object of my voyage; my two colleagues also are men of sound piety, and I trust we shall always have ones object in view, and shall see the fruit of our labours. I feel happy that I have nothing to do with politics. Had the governor appointed men of character as majistrates, and wished me to have acted as one, I should have felt it my duty not to have refused; but as his excellengy thought proper to nominate men with whom I would in no consideration act in a public capacity, I had an opportunity of freeing myself from a very unpleasant duty and gained leisure to attend to what more immediately concerned me. All things are wisely ordered for our own good; there is not a single event in our own lives for which we can assign all the reasons which finite Wisdom may have in view.

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