G. Blaxcell to Secretary Campbell.

Agreeable to His Excellency’s kind promise of transmitting the memorial of the New South Wales New Zealand Company, and recommending it to the favourable consideration of His Majesty’s Government, as communicated in yours of the 18th November last, we beg leave to hand you the same with two copies for that purpose, and have to request you will be pleased to inform His Excellency the Governor that in pursuance of the important objects set forth in the memorial, we have already dispatched the brig Trial and schooner Brothers properly equipt, and that we are now equipping the brig Endeavour also to be

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employed in the same speculation, which we trust, thro’ His Excellency’s recommendation, will be encouraged and supported by His Majesty’s Government.