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of a Clergyman being [resident?] there and
he promised you should not return and
promised Mr Keane that he should
not go, and unless Mr Middleton does
go to Port Macquarie I cannot think how
things will be settled I do not remember
what I said in my letter certainly
not "that he was to be [indecipherable] upon
changes which he had not time to
meet". What Mr Scott said to me was
that "he and the Governor had been
consulting and he thought it probable
that we should [go?] to New Castle for a time that is if
Mr Middleton will remove to P.M. but it
has not yet been intimated to him" and
then he observed that [indecipherable]
circumstances [indecipherable] have occurred with respect
to [indecipherable]. How you can [indecipherable] that you are
continued at Bathurst by way of [indecipherable]

I do not know, as Mr Scott requested you [to?]
take that station before he went to [indecipherable]
Southward. and another thing when his
brother left the School he took with him
the principle Servants and the
place was left destitute and the
[indecipherable] could find no person but Mr
Keane who could take charge of it [directly?] which
prevented Mr K from proceeding to
Bathurst - Mr Scott's arrival [indecipherable]
was perhaps displeased when he was [indecipherable]
and every [Arch D?] would have been the
same) that you were spending your time
at Parramatta and like a School Boy went
away when you expected him back, but now
that our Friends have undecieved him
he sees the circumstances [as?] they
really were. I do not think he has [indecipherable]
unpleasant feeling toward you