Brian Condon: Letters and Documents in 19th Century Australian Catholic History
[Source: Adelaide Archdiocesan Archives copy]
Colonial Secretary's Office
4th. December 1822
Revd. Sir,
I am commanded to acquaint you in reply to your letter of the third instant that the Governor feels sorry that you find yourself unable to perfect the Roman Catholic Chapel in this town on the grand scale on which you have commenced it. His Excellency experiences no small gratification however at the interest which seems to have been excited respecting its completion in the hearts of one of the Judges and twenty-six Magistrates of the Territory as Manifested by their written recommendation of assistance, a Copy of which you have done me the Honor to enclose. After an anxiety so generally felt, the propriety of opening a fresh Subscription for the Consummation of that religious, political and elegant undertaking naturally suggests itself and in any list that may be opened, I am directed by the Governor to enter the name of His Government for a sum equal to the sum total of all such additional donations
I have the honor to be, Rev. Sir
Your most obedient servant
F. Goulburn
Colonial Secretary