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...possessing your Recent[?] confidence to send you such information I can render that the greatest of public[?] utility may be obtained — Everyone is now anxiously expecting returns from England, with dispatch and to our[?] earnest expectations[?] — the testimony of Governor Macquarie[?] and the [promise?] of his lawful authority — he has used his [best?] [talents?] and has aided the most [flagrant?] opportunities on the loyal inhabitants [?] — the prisoner who has [undergone?] a long and painful confinement and a [treacherous?] book from[?] [his?] house and taken through the [street?] a prisoner on the [level?] passing[?] [here?] — his affectionate daughter [displaying?] affection in the agony of her grief, endeavouring to[?] [detain?] for the fate of her [better?] nature, [justly?] apprehended that she [would?] [incur?] a [similar?] whilst in the [hands?] of men [evidently?] [moved?] in greatest [resentment?] — [wished?] to extort her [signature?] from [him?] in a [situation?] [when?] [singled?] [away?] [to revenge?] or [such?] inhuman treatment — and [shortly?] [dispatched?] the Governor in the Barracks, when he was associated with his [Dissatisfied?] [up?] and [at?] many [the?] [official?] [Colony?] on a [reasonable?] appointment and [no?] human attention to [need?] to [honour?] [satisfactorily?] informed him, that the [conditions?] had [situations?] and [no?] [former?] [express?] [permits?] since he [has?] been [referred?] to his [having?] [where?] [been?] allowed to [remain?] in a [few?] [days?] at the [indications?] of [which?] [he?] is to [find?] and [such?] [passages?] — [Such?] [measures?] give from a[?] [what?] [instruments?] and [must?] in the [last?] [result?] the [political?] account against them[?] — [less?] [made?] [possible?] to [receive?] a [more?] [innocent?] [comment?] on [most?] [injured?] than [no?] [?]

(Page 2) [and must have required] a more than common share of patience to support them through his long sufferings, and yet with all the result not [esteem?] that has of yet [him?] he preserves [his?] [spirit?] with unshaken magnanimity — [this?] really [praising?] to a generous mind to see a man who has [spent?] a [long?] life in the service of his country and who has so long [with?] his [troops?] [conquered?] and [gained?] inextinguishable honour, in fighting the battles of his [Present?] Country[?] abroad — the [consciousness?] of his own integrity and goodness of the [reflection?] must alone support [him?] under [such?] [overwhelming?] [afflictions?] —

I have Sir from a sense of duty and the wrongs the Governor has suffered been induced to [enter?] into my [hearty?] [respect?] respect and attachment to my [sworn?] [friends?] as a Loyal[?] [good?] American; and though I have suffered greatly for that attachment [this?] can never [feel?] [annoyed?] in effect; my interests will ever be the same, [prefer?] to [face?] for my [debts?] because I would [not?] betray my [governor?] and [appealed?] [pleasure?] — [fortunes?] [by?] will be the [bolder?] when [Matt?] you, that my wife and [five?] young children have [now?] [left exposed?] in the greatest [misfortune?] than their country — the author of the [continuing?] inhuman treatment is [dead?] [now?] — [dangerous?] and [when?] [was?] the county by [the?] [fatted?] [towards?] [me?] [what?] all my [effort?] was in a [present?] [flame?] of [satisfaction?] — my [night?] [give?] [attending?] [me?] — [by?] [not?] [attach?] or [his?] [reckoning?] to be [complete?] to [then?] [to?] [took?] me, from [completely?] to [worlds?] [reject?] which [occurs?] in a move to [enter?] his [heart?] [was?] then [his?] wife — [interest?] [apart?] from my [person?] [?] — his [wife?] and [five?] young [children?] who [had?] [after?] [those?] [find?] me to [him?] — to [mistaken?] [devotion?] — [they?] [have?] [now?] [more?] [right?] [demanded?] in [the?] [person?] [then?] — [and?] [which?] is [the?] [beyond?] of my [embarrassment?] that my [friend?] is [allowed?] to [exist?] — [here?] [would?] [have?] [to?] [beg?] [would?] rather [look?] on [him?] than [give?] my [character?] to [destroy?] my [son?] — if [glory?] in [suffering?] in the [governors?] cause, [proud?] in the [walk?] of [such?] and [public?] [friendship?] I am only [moved?] when I [think?] on the sufferings on

(Page 3) [the?] evils to which my dear wife and children are exposed — the Almighty will [that?] [he?] [has?] not [yet?] protected them — I had hoped that having come out to this country under your auspices that your name Sir would have been a protection to [me?] but on the contrary of having [met?] to [remove?] the [insolence?] of my [persecutors?] — [had?] [one?] [evident?] that [Governor?] [Bligh?] [orchestrated?] on the authority he would have [driven?] [in?] [attention?] of my family [more?] [comfortable?] [than?] it had [to?] [them?] — [this?] not only my family [including?] [numerous?] and [virtuous?] families — the love of — I sincerely hope that [Dorothea?] and Lady Banks, also Miss [Banks?] [and?] [from?] and all your brother [family?] are in good health —

I am Sir with [the?] [notes?] your [Sir?] Humble Servant Geo. Suttor

To The Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks —

[Chelsea?] [Jail?] Feb. 15. 1[8]09[?]

P.S. The [settlers?] and [cultivators?] are generally warmly attached to Governor [Macquarie?] and look upon him as their [father?] and [benefactor?], and [now?] have in [consequence?] [been?] [added?] in the [confidence?] of those who have [appointed?] the government [place?] — [only?] not [grow?] more, and [others?] [principally?] and will not be able to [call those?] [emigrants?] — the [consequence?] of this will be[?] [from?] [attained?] a [famine?], the most [dreadful?] [fall?] of all evils — I sincerely [note?] Sir [Joseph?] enjoys better health — I am [very?] [much?] [moved?] to hear of his [two?] [steps?] —