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Letter: Jeffery Hart Bent to Reverend Samuel Marsden, 3 April 1817
Jeffery Hart
Bent
Author
Reverend
Samuel
Marsden
Receiver
H.M.S. Kangaroo
The ship that sent the letter
Isabella
The ship that returned the reply
text
Letter
New South Wales, Australia
3 April 1817
23 February 1818
9 March 1818
12 March 1818
Notes about where the letter was created: New South Wales
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Hocken Collections' Title: Judge Bent to Marsden
Other Address Details: Addressed to Samuel Marsden in letter but on back of letter addressed to Rev. Josiah Pratt, London
Sydney
-33.861293,151.212645
April
1817
Sir
Colonies -- History
Colony
March
Station
Hope
Hope
Offensive (Military science)
Attack
Mrs
Marsden
Jeffery
Judge
Wales
52.133488,-3.780155
Revd
Chaplain
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Letter: Jeffery Hart Bent to Reverend Samuel Marsden, 3 April 1817
Jeffery Hart Bent
University of Otago Library
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Collection Number MS-0056/054
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CMS Number 72
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Letter
Maori Subject Headings
Reverend Samuel Marsden
3 April 1817
New South Wales, Australia
H.M.S. Kangaroo
Isabella
23 February 1818
9 March 1818
British English
Colonies -- History
Hope
Offensive (Military science)
Sydney
April
1817
Colony
March
Station
Hope
Attack
Marsden
Jeffery
Wales
Chaplain
Sydney 5th April 1817
My dear Sir/
As my departure from this Colony is now fixed I avail myself of the Occasion presented by your letter of the 11 March to say that tho’ I have had no great cause to regret leaving a Country where I have met with continual trouble and vexation yet still I have derived considerable gratification as by a residence here I have had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with you, and I am truly sorry to observe that trials similar to those which have been so successfully thrown round me, seem to be preparing for you, and that a spirit of Hostility towards you, has been and is still so very apparent in a quarter whence you were
intitled
entitled
to every support, so that it is even the common talk amongst a certain party that you are to be the next victim to caprice and dislike; I have also heard that expressions of such tendency have fallen from a person whose mind the station & office he holds, should have impressed the duty of strict impartiality and the necessity of keeping himself pure from any invi=dious statements
~
I do not however fear the result
though perhaps you may have a hard task & pregnant with much mortification. That you will finally make them ashamed I am sure & I need not add that it is my sincere hope, The contrary I will not contemplate. Every Man of Honorable Principle has for some time past found it difficult to struggle with the system pursued, should any accident happen to yourself, I shall consider the Colony as abandoned to utter ruin and all attempts in future to ameliorate its condition more than probable to prove ineffectual— Who is there within the Colony of sound principles that does not regret he ever entered it? What hope can there be left that any one will venture to do his duty if he is to be subjected to contumely, to be attacked Masque and annoyed in every mode for which a plausible pretext can be found?
Your long residence here must have given you much experience. But I am confident you never felt such anxiety nor ever had so much to contend against or to feel from Prejudice Passion & Power as within these few last years— It is hard to be put upon a defence from unjust attack, & groundless calumnies. But when similar attacks are continued & with redoubled bitterness, who can continue the never ending contest.
That you may wear through it I do most heartily wish and I look forward to the time when we may meet
with brighter prospects than when we part.
I should have written to you much sooner, but the unexpected difficulties wich occurred to prevent my departure in the Ship Surry
,
and of which you are not ignorant must plead my excuse. I beg my best remembrances to Mrs Marsden and am
My Dear Sir
Your very faithful Servant
(Signed) Jeffery Hart Bent
late Judge of the Supr[eme] C[our]t
N S Wales
To the Revd S. Marsden
Principal Chaplain
&c &c &c
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MS-0056/054
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11.0
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1.4
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50.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 63.6 mm)
0
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Auto Focus Used
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Adobe Photoshop
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Windows
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The manuscript images, transcripts and metadata displayed on the Marsden Online Archive site are governed by a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 New Zealand (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 NZ) copyright agreement (available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/). Please contact the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library, Dunedin, New Zealand for more information.
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