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Governor Macquarie sat in his own room in Government House in Bridge-street, in a very bad temper indeed. In the first place he had just received a long dispatch from Lord Liverpool, principal Secretary of State for the Foreign Department, informing him that "the Prince Regent will have particular satisfaction in witnessing every exertion on your part in lessening the charge of the colony on the mother country, " and calling attention to the large bills of exchange which had been drawn on his Majesty's Treasury for the erection of public building in New South Wales.
A miserable parsimonious soul was Lord Liverpool. The Governor was incubating great schemes for other huge buildings, all to be inscribed with the name of 'L. Macquarie Esq.,' and it was very hard to be rapped over the knuckles in this way, and told to cut down expenditure.