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was out, I did not see him -

The News papers will give you the state of
politics - it is gloomy enough - In India things
do not progress & this crisis Canada - The
Boundary question & the Ministerial crisis -
perhaps the Whigs ought to have gone out after
the vote in the Lords for if the radicals do
not abandon them & they beat the Tories on
the Irish question in the Commons, they can
only prolong a rickety existence while by they
must have gained by leaving Peel to form
& carry on the goverment with opposition
to Ireland for his Motto - I think he would
have shrunk from this task, especially

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James Macarthur Esq.
Camden
New South Wales

[Dated PD Mr 27 1859]
26 March 1839