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day in this delightful retreat from noise
and official trouble. I joined with
Arthur King some short time ago by handing
him my mite towards the Memorial Window
in your Church which it is now so long
since I visited, but which I have not
in any way forgotten. Pray remember
me to Mrs Macarthur, Mrs Onslow and
Captain Onslow whom I must congratulate
with your whole household on the event
which I saw chronicled in one of the papers.
I so seldom see, and more seldom read
the Sydney papers, that it is almost
by chance that I observe what occurs
with you, unless it forms the subject
of a telegram which prompts one to
watch the subsequent full accounts.

After our fever of loyalty, our so-
called (Queen's) Attorney General in plunging
us into a low type of disease which I
know not how to name. One of his
warmest supporters talks of the crack of
a rifle under the Parliament windows:-
another says that if the Assembly wish to
pension the devil himself with £50000 a year
the Council have no right to say No : ---
and what else is to be said before the elections