all this would tend to shew the necessity of having some
kind of Government there - But as you say we may write all
this & more than this & the Colonial office will not enter into it - We
must get some influential person Gentleman to take it up & then we must
force them to listen these details - I dined a few days ago in
company with Capt Robinson who you may recollect, beat
the Minister last year in getting a Committee on his affair
with Governor Darling - he has had a good deal of experience at the
Colonial Office & says you must stick to them like a leech if
you wish to be listened to - I hope I shall get Mr Buxton to
take up the matter for if he does not & your friend declines I know
not where to look - altho' a very humble & uninfluential person
myself I have thro some of my friends access to the present
Ministry but I know of no one suitable person who would take the trouble
necessarily involved in the conducting the business - should
the subject ever come before Parliament I could thro' my friends
get some considerable parliamentary aid & could also get a lift
from the Press - but I trust these appeals will not be necessary -

Your mention of Mr C Burrell reminds me that I believe one
of the Association Mr Bannister has already written to him on
the subject - I knew all about Hentys business & think
his arrangement tells in our favor. It only requires some knowledge
of the cruelties & immoralities practised in some of these new
settlements I can scarcely ask them to see the importance of
some settled Government - In some of these new stations Man has
been seen in the greatest lowest possible state of degradation, combining
all the vices of a civilized & a savage state - you will pardon
the rambling style in which I write but it just occurs to me to say
that it would be well to call Lord Glenelg's attention particularly to
as I think it
Mr Batmans report copy of which is in the Colonial Office -

I am very glad to hear you are better & I trust you will
yet be able to join me in London. I will gladly undertake