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The frightful load of debt
which the colony is piling up under
the misguidance of the men who
have fastened the Exhibn expenditure
on a county from which they strive
to exclude importations of merchandise
makes it unplasant to think
of the affair, and I have felt no
inclination to look at it.

However I shall be glad
to go with you to it if you
come over. I hope the spring
weather will improve the health
of Sir Wm & Mrs Macarthur.

Give them and Mrs Onslow
and the young folks my kindest
regards please. We have here
now a regular epidemic of measles
but it will be over before November
I suppose and if you bring
over any little companion there
will be no risk of infection.

There will be only a few miles
of coaching to do when you come
so the journey wont be neither
fatiguing nor of long duration.