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 Notwithstanding these errors (as they appear to me), which are perhaps to be attributed to the influence of circumstances and pressure of the times, I think that the colony have reason to be satisfied with the result of the first session of the Legislative Council. It has shown a laudable zeal in grappling with all the difficult questions of colonial politics, and the mass of information collected upon these subjects, and the able reports furnished by the committees which have been engaged in these investigations, are monuments highly creditable to the industry and talent of the gentlemen who composed them. It is indeed of the greatest importance that there should be some mode in which the opinions of the most respectable and most experienced of the colonists should be made known, and that there should be some source from which persons in power in England may derive information above all suspicion;