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Country, that few persons will be induced to go
from hence for the purpose of employing their
Capital in Colonial Agriculture. The markets are
steadily improving here, and I trust the wool sales
of the approaching Season will be favorably influenced
by this change for the better. It appears to me, however,
that Prosperity will not again generally display herself
in New South Wales, until this Country
shall see her Interest in Colonising
that Territory up to the means of
subsistance. I am striving to establish these views
in the Minds of Statesmen, and a few days since
received from Sir Robert Peel a very curt note on
the subject. But you can have no idea of the difficulty
of inducing Government to travel out of the old high
road, and that difficulty is much enhanced by the
little assistance I can obtain from any one
here, and the entire supineness of the Colonists
to Measures beyond such as come within too
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P.S.
I had no sooner folded my Letter than Mr. Matheson who has
recently come home from India on leave came to see me, and
talk of Camden, and the hospitalities he has received there.
He looks well – desires to [be] remembered to you, and talks of
joining Davidson and his Family, who are now in Paris
where they are to remain until June –

Colonel Despard is young De Wintons Colonel

Adieu
EM.