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Parramatta July 4, 1819

My dear Madam,
We received all your letters by the S??y & Hibernia
but the baggage ?ion has not yet come to hand, & is not on board
these ships that I can leaern. It may come by some other conveyances. I will
pay particular attention your son Charles's request, & will follow his
directions in sending them home when obtained. I received his letter.
I am now preparing to embark for New Zealand with the Clergymen & etc.
Should I meet with anything in my voyage that I think will be accep
table to Mr C. Stokes, I will bring it with me & then answer his letter.
By that ship I have sent home my son Charles for his education & wish
to place him in the same seminary with Mr Hassall, in Wales, he
will be a companion for him & guardian, till he gains more know
ledge of the world. I have directed him to wait upon you when he ar
rives in London, & have requested my friend Mrs Goode to provide
for him ? while he remains in town. I need not say,
how Mrs M feels at parting with him to England & one to New
Zealand at the same time. The promise is "as thy day thy strength
shall be", they are both ? though not joyous at the present time
We must commit all into his hand who doeth all things well -
I bless God that the Enemy hath not triumphed ove rme; I am also
to this day, & as firm at my post through mercy as ever. Hard
has been the struggle & painful the contest, but the issue will be
for the good of the church of Christ. Fightings without & fears within
have literally attended me. I have lived like a ?
in the Ocean - wave after wave have rolled over me, but not
swallowed me up. I shall be very glad when a change of Govern
ment is made. Things may be better - they will not be better
under the present system, ? I to expect any cordial recon
ciliation to take place between one & the existing Authority. Had
I been vanquished, the Enemy would then have been more
inclined to a reconciliation; as this is not the case, the enmity
will only lie like hot embers under an heap of ashes, ready to
be blown up into a flame by the first gust of temptation. I