navigable for a vessel of 60 Tons – Fawkners vessel
is now lying here in 5 fathoms – I wish you would ascertain
from Moriarty if a remittance was made to him for me
from the Cornwall Bank – they promised to do it. If
it was not tell him how I am circumstanced at the present
moment - & tell him I shall shortly return – After I have
finished this journey I shall look out anxiously for an
opportunity to return & should do so by Fawkners Vessel
only that I am anxious to complete my present journey
The proprietors ought to be excommunicated if they
don’t give me second choice.

J H Wedge

Dear Batman

On arriving here this morning I was surprised
at coming upon the encampment of the persons connected with
Mr Fawkner. They are within the limits described in our
Deeds, & they intend to persist in holding possession – I have
explained that they are within our limits & have pointed out the
consequences that will ensue by interfering with each other – It
obvious, I think that if the residents get to loggerheads, the
Government will interfere & dispossess both parties – I have told
them that as we have purchased the land, & in part paid for
it, that we should not give it up – Aitken & a Mr Thompson
who came in the Endeavour I have informed, mean also to
squat within the limits – Under these circumstances I think
it would be well for the proprietors to meet & discuss the proper
steps to be taken – I believe you are an advocate for using force
or instigating the Natives to molest them – The would former I
think would be bad policy, because it would afford the
Government a pretext for interfering, & of not confirming our
arrangement with the Natives – some of the proprietors have
the same view of the subject with myself – think the matter
well over & confer with them at Hobart Toun & Launceston –
Instigating the Natives might lead to the commencement of
a cancer of bloodshed which no one could afterwards controul.
And if they afterwards took offence either at ourselves or
Servants we might feel the power which they had been
taught to wield against others – The present view that I have
taken is that it will be better for your Brother on the arrival
of the Vessel to come up here & form an establishment a little
above this place & also for 2 or 3 men to station themselves above
the salt water of the River which you followed up – and I think hostility
should at present be avoided – Perhaps a regular legal notice