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[top left] 31/8057 25 Oct 1831

To the Honorable Alexander McLeay, Esquire.

The humble Petition of James Hardy Vaux
Most respectfully sheweth,
That Your Petitioner, although conscious of
having justly merited the severe fate to which he has been
doomed by a late order for his removal to the penal -
settlement of Moreton Bay, humbly presumes to imploce
Your merciful interposition, to obtain a reversal, or
commutation of that dreadful sentence.

That Petitioner deeply laments his rashness
in having imputed injustice to the executive Government,
on the occasion of his dismissal from your office; and
equally regrets the personal disrespect he was guilty of
towards yourself; both of which errors he has most
humbly acknowledged in his petition to His Excellency
Governor Darling, of the 18th May last, transmitted
through the High Sheriff.

Your Petitioner, in now praying Your forgiveness,
feels confident that you possess too noble a mind to
cherish vindictive feelings towards so insignificant an
individual. He tremblingly appeals to your compassion
humbly beseeching that his destination may be changed
to Port Macquarie, or any other distant free settlement.
in which event, it shall be the study of his few remaining
years to approve himself deserving of such clemency
and he will unceasingly offer up his prayers to the Throne
of Grace and Mercy for Your temporal and eternal happiness.

And Your Petitioner, as in duty bound,
will ever pray..
James Hardy Vaux.
H: M: Hulk, Phanix.
Oct 19th 1831