To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. June 25th, 1845.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 38, 28 June 1845, Page 2

To the Editor of the New Zealand Spectator. June 25th, 1845.

Sir, — It strikes me that a good subject for the pencil of an H. B. would be aheap of slaughtered maories with a living chief in front, remonstrating with Captain Fitzroy for killing his countrymen, at whom his Excellency might be represented as pointing a musket, and at the same time, saying, "The Queen, my mistress, takes a lively interest in your welfare." Something might also be made of the recent issue of Debentnres, contrary, as I am told it is, to the express meaning of Lord Stanley's instructions. This mass of dirty paper currency must prove seriously injurious to the colony, and the name of assignats given to it by the London press, reminds one of John Law, the author of the South Sea bubble scheme, who was also the author of the assignats which have been considered as one of the prior causes of the French revolution. It would be very complimentary to compare the Governor to John Law, who was, nobody can deny, a very clever man, but, as they both issued paper, that became of no value, and both operated -in the southern seas, there is enough of resemblance to juhtify a lithographic parody. Other positions of his Excellency, affording admirable employment for an illustrator of Don Quixote might be pointed put. Indeed, they may be found, in the langnage of the commentators, passim through all bis works, and if the theatre on which Captain Fitzroy Lad been ordered to perform by the Queen his mistress, were larger and more important, nobody can doubt that- he would make the fortune of any able artist in the caricature department. I am, your's, &c, Whirlygig.