Report to you, in justice to myself and character, and that the Public may not be lead astray, I beg leave to state the particulars of the case, and request you w ill insert the same in your Paper:---James Murphy came to my service in July, 1823, and was assigned to take care of my stock of horned cattle. During such time he was employed, I paid the pound keeper of Castle-hill, for stock impounded through his neglect, the sum of £3 18s 8d I allowed him a ration weekly of 4lbs of salt pork and a peck of wheat, besides £10 per annum. I then employed him to go in a boat, to supply the shipping daily with milk, but found that he neglected that duty, got drunk, and made away with great part of the money; on his expressing contrition for the same, 1 forgave him. I then employed him to mind twelve milch cows, which duty he neglected, and let them stray. He lost four head, and I desired him to go after them; he went for a few hours, and then returned, stating he could not find them. I told him he must find them. He went again, and returned in about half an hour stating he could not go after them as he had no shoes. I had supplied him with a new pair of boots only six weeks before. I told him to go after them, he said he would not, and dared me to make him, and used the most provoking language towards me, when in the heat of passion, I struck him with my hand in the face, when he ran away and called out murder. I came in on Monday morning last to lodge a complaint to the Police Magistrate, and found Murphy there. Murphy has drawn in the time he has been in my service to the amount of £20 16s l0d in cash, and necessaries. He has lost two cows wholly, which he cannot account for. I have been in the habit of keeping from two to four Government servants for the last fifteen years, and can appeal to the Magistrates at Parramatta, where I principally resided, whether any complaint had ever been exhibited before them of any ill-treatment I have used towards them; and shall, on the day of trial before the Quarter Sessions, at Sydney, produce such