FL14374233

[MS 1345]

Agreeable to your Excellency's desire I take
this opportunity of making a few remarks relative
to the state & condition of Port Macquarie in
a moral point of view trusting your Excellency
will make every allowance for my inexpe-
rience & want of more local information
the time of my residence there being short
and consequently affording but little opportu-
nity of making these observations which
might tend more effectually to the welfare of that rising
settlement.

On my arrival I received every atten-
tion from the Commandant Capt Rolland
who during my stay afforded me every
assistance in his power to forword my object
and who I feel assured will rejoice to
ameliorate the condition of mankind &
forward the views of His Majestie's Government -

The school consisting of about
40 or 50 Children is in good order and [owes?]
[indecipherable] much to the [indecipherable] of the late