Letter to Earl Bathurst, by the Honourable H. Grey Bennet, M.P.

22.5 x 14.0cms, 104pp, quarter cloth over green papered boards, gilt lettering to spine, binding firm with light general wear & minor marking to cloth & spine, internally clean overall though with moderate foxing throughout, heavier to preliminaries & outer leaves; contemporary annotation to ffe indicating "Edinburgh Review XXXVIII NO 75 Feb. 1823"; armorial bookplate of James Edge Partington to front pastedown. An important political document from the Macquarie period which attacked Macquarie's leadership and led to the appointment of Commissioner Bigge to investigate the state of the colony in NSW. In turn, this was the beginning of the end of Macquarie's governorship.