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ht read in London, will not seem enormous to a colonist, who could produce many parallel cases; it was a practice too common.] [Footnote 65: In 1702, Colonel Bayard was tried in New York, charged with having used divers indirect practices and endeavours to procure mutiny and desertion among the soldiers in the fort, &c. For sending a petition to the home government, which received a few military signatures, against the governor and the ruling faction, he was condemned to death--in the horrid terms included in the penalty of high treason. Before the sentence was executed, Lord Cornbury arrived: the chief justice _fled to England_; Lord Cornbury, however, it is said; destroyed the factions of New York, by oppressing them both: "and the contest soon began, which ended in the establishment of a free and independent nation."--_Chandler's American Trials._ Boston: vol. i. p. 294.] [Footnote 66: _Lang's History of New South Wales_, vol. i. p. 110.] [Footnote 67: Dr. Lang states, that "he was obliged to sign an agreement to quit the colony forthwith; but instead of proceeding to England, Governor Bligh landed at the Derwent."--(vol. i. p. 121). And seems rather to extenuate this breach of faith. Were no agreement of this class binding the rigours of captivity and civil strife could never be mitigated. The following is Bligh's own statement:--"I took the _Porpoise_ on the terms they proposed to me, and the moment I got the command of the _Porpoise_, I took care to keep it, and would not suffer any of these terms, or any thing which they said to have the least influence on my mind."--Johnstone's trial, p. 33.] [Footnote 68: Horse Guards. July 1811.] [Footnote 69: _New South Wales Gazette_, 1810.] [Footnote 70: Printed by J. Barnes and T. Clark, at the Government Press, Hobart Town.] [Footnote 71: _Derwent Star, March 6th_, 1810.] [Footnote 72: _Collins's Peerage_: of venerable authority.--_Quarterly Review_, 1820.] SECTION III. On the demise of Colonel Collins, the government devolved on Lieutenant Edward Lord, until the arrival of Captain Murray, of the 73rd regiment. The governor-in-chief visited Van Diemen's Land during Captain Murray's administration. This auspicious event was the subject of great exultation. Macquarie was received with all possible formality and tokens of gladness: a salute from a battery of no great power; an illumination in the small windows of the scattered cottages; and
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