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Colony was so well supplied. Whatever might be done he 

 feared he could not congratulate the promoters of the 

 measure upon any chance of success. 



His Honour the Chief Justice advocated the propriety 

 of something being done for the Indians. It was not to be 

 expe6led that the present generation would either reap 

 the benefit or be a fair illustration of the result in a 

 question of this kind ; it was necessary to look a little into 

 futurity. 



Colonel DOUGAN was of opinion that the Finances of 

 the Colony were not in a sufficiently flourishing state to 

 be able to make anything like an efficient experiment in 

 the matter before the Court. 



Pirara, 29th August, 1842. 



My dear YoUNG, — Our boats arrived on the 22nd inst., 

 and I received with them your kind letter from Ampa. I 

 have given CORNELISEN a severe reproof, as you will ob- 

 serve from my official letter to you. Your express, which 

 left Ampa only 6 days after my boat, arrived at the same 

 time, and brought me your letter of the i6th July and the 

 extract of a note from the British Minister, &c. 



I am glad that the Military detachment is to be with- 

 drawn, as it has done more harm than good, Recolle6l 

 what I told you in your gallery when you first communi- 

 cated to me the resolution of H. M. Government to send 

 troops to Pirara. I gave them eight months before they 

 were withdrawn, and I have proved a true prophet. Their 

 stay in Pirara will have cost Government something 

 about j^8,ooo, and the note of the Ministers proves that 

 matters were arranged provisionally before the troops left 

 Georgetown. 



