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that you have endeavoured to lead their attention to useful employments,
and especially that you have been assiduous in the education and improvement
of as many Children as possible as upon this circumstance we greatly
depended for your eventual utility.

We hope, also, it will appear that the Missionary Sisters have discharged
their duty to the female Natives, as we placed great reliance on their fidelity
and formed considerable expectations of advantage from their intercourse with
them.

We must, however, wait for satisfactory information hereon till
we receive your dispatches and shall now proceed to Consider your present
situation.

Capt Bishop's letter is dated the 10 Sept. from Port Jackson at which period we
suppose you had been a Considerable time there as it appears the Nautilus
sailed from Otaheite the 30 March. what reception you met with, or in
what way you have been employed we are unacquainted. with, on these
accounts, as well as because of the uncertainty we are in the as to the necessity
of your relinquishing your former Stations, we find it difficult to enter
upon this subject. Altho, Brethren, there is no legal or Compulsory Connection
subsisting betwixt you & us. You being solely responsible for your own Conduct,
and the Society in no respect accountable for your transactions. yet as you
were so gratuitously and liberally supplied and at an immense expense to

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the religious public, with all the articles of your equipment,
and as they have therefore so strong a demand both on your
gratitude to them, and devotedness to the Heathen, we have no
doubt you will pay a respectfull attention to what we may
suggest in regard to your present Circumstances 

As we trust and sincerely hope Brethren that you preserve
unabated the desire to be instrumental to promote the glory
of God & the interests of his Kingdom. We express to you our
ardent wish that you may find means of accomplishing this
great duty without returning to your native Country. We have
reason to believe that your example, your conversation and
your influence in various ways may tend to promote our object
in the Colony where we presume you are now placed,  On this
subject you will doubtless pay especial regard to the experience
and advice of the Revd M Johnson and Mr Marsden, whose
Countenance and regard you will respectfully seek, very
probably you may have the opportunity of being useful in the
education of the Children of the Convicts, and among the Convicts
themselves.  Long before this reaches you, the Hillsborough
will most likely have delivered at the Colony the Convicts she
took out, and we have the great satisfaction to inform you that
thro' the blessing of God on the unwearied labours of Dr Van der Kemp 
and his associates, sent out by the Missionary Society in this
Vessel as far as the Cape, several of them appeared to receive
those divine impressions on their Souls which will render your