place us on a footing to provide for our own defence, by extending colonisation, with a due regard to discipline; which would answer infinitely better than the redcoats, until their tactics are altered, and made suitable to this country and its native inhabitants. Numerically speaking, we are creeping on a little way, but a large majority would be found unacquainted with the use of arms; and who would think of confronting such men against the warlike natives of these islands, who have proved themselves a pretty fair match for our disciplined troops? The very men who raised the hubbub about the scarcity of land, and your long absence from this settlement, have actually been and offered, and are now giving 8/- per bushel for good and indifferent wheat, immediately after harvest, to the natives; and 2/6 per bushel for maize, thereby throwing further difficulties in the way of acquiring land, in order that they may satisfy their own private aggrandisement at the expense of the public welfare. Really such men deserve to be publicly whipped; and in addition, tied to a hurdle,