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