He describes the caution with which he approached his task of reform, his appreciation of the opposition to which it would give rise, his introduction of a new system among current public officers, and the reform of the magisterial proceedings. Soon after his arrival, a clash with a stipendiary magistrate and one of the Council over the possibly wrongful conviction and over-harsh sentence imposed upon a man for larceny had had to be referred to the Colonial Office. He asks Buxton to look into the case, a report having been sent to England by Major MacPhail, who was then administering the islands, and Kenny the magistrate having sent his own account to his patron the Duke of Richmond. He therefore refers Buxton to the official correspondence at the Colonial Office, listed as 'The Queen v. Caffy Stanley', and asks him to obtain the removal of Kenny from the island, and his replacement by John Osborn of St. Kitts. Cleghorn continues with a detailed description of the case, accusing Kenny and the plantation owners' magistrate, Huggins, of imposing the utmost sentence for a trifling offence in order to appease the injured feelings of the former, whom Caffy Stanley had annoyed, and describing the victim as an industrious and therefore prosperous man of good character. He mentions that he and the Council were at loggerheads because he had appointed a mixed-race magistrate, the Council having passed a motion of censure against him and he having submitted the matter to [Lord] Charles Fitzroy. He refers to his appeal earlier for a clergyman for the chief parish of the island; his arrival was imminent. A number of labourers were emigrating to Trinidad because the plantation owners could not afford to pay them for their labour; he attributes this to bad management and asserts that he left no stone unturned in investigating these matters. In a postscript, he mentions that Cunningham might wish Osborn to become his secretary; in such a case, any upright stipendiary magistrate would suit him. Endorsed with a note that news of Cleghorn's death arrived before this letter could be answered.