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EXTRACT PROM THE REPORT OF IRE COMMIS• 'WEIR OP INQUIET INTO THE STATE QP THE COLONY OF NEW MUTH %ft LES. [Printed by Order of the Heave of Commons.] (ftotlaued frost our Paper of Wednesday loaf.) •••••••• Nato/ of Orr Lamm of Cowokre Its tAsf Service Of . . • ,40/1104 • .rearti - At Xst early period the Rev. Mr. Marsden antl Mr. Hannibal &Partitive, the', acting Alagistrates for the town um! districts of Paratnatia. fiad heen so strongly•imi.ressed with the mischievous conse quences of collecting together in one place so many couvieto, and idacing theurourier no better control than the constables of the districts, that they etas ed to give effect to the Governor's proclamation, in. these over which they prisided as magistrates. 'These effects had been represented, Had Made the subject of complaint to your Lordship by Mr. Bayley. a aettler in New South Wales, who en. joyed the confidence and friendship of the Rev. Mr. Marsden. Your Lordship having been pleased to refer the inattl-rsitated to this complaint to' Go vernor Illeaq?arne, • circular letter was addressed by his secretary to the magistrates, - requesting their iiiformation and report upon the effects of the Sun (lay musters; a considerable majority of the ma glair:AV* reported that these musters had produced a favourable effect upon the convicts; bat Mr. wis of opinion, that this effect was COW , finest to places where the convicts bad an opportu nity of attending divine service, and that their meetings on Sundays in the - presence and at the houses of 'the dietria constables only led to pro tracted absence front the houses of their masters, and to debauchery and licentiousness Mr. Hannibal M'Arthur considered, that although these mischievous consequences were less sensibly felt in Pliers %here the convicts could attend di vine worship. yet that their association and Meet ing with dissolute characters at the muster had led them to form improper connexions there, and that the Sunday muster had not been productive of any visible benefi'. The opintou of the chief constable of this Wind saellnitriet is ',goody unfavourable to it as a mew. sore OXice; grounded upon the opportunities that it 'Words to the convicts for combining together and forming plans of criminal, enterprise; it a ob vious, moreover, that whenever the muster is care ies.iy executed by the district constable, or where he fails to make his report of the absentee*. or ill conducted convicts to the magistrates on the follow nig tidy, it is much more likely to be attended with mischief than with advantage ; and that whatever may be the vigilance of the constable, it affords a pretext to the convict for absence from his master's estate, that May, and often has beeh used to the prejudice of both. The good effects that this weekly muster has pro duced,have been found to consist in the more cleanly appearance of the convicts, and in the opportunitiri that it affords to them of making known any ficiencv of their allowance of clothing, or any other complaint that they may have to make, for it is through the district constables that these complaints are directed to be made; and it also affords to the same officer an opportunity of becoming better ac quainted with the persons as well as the conddct of the convicts in his district, and of better determin. ing the references that are frequently !nude to hie by the magistrates, upon local and disputed points of wages and labour. From the information that I received upon this subject, I am of opinion that the Sunday musters of the convicts, if strictly attended to by the'Me gistrates of New South Wales, may be-productive of great advantage, but that the character of the district constables in the colony is not such as to justify a belief that the regulations intrusted to them eau •be either faithfully or accurately -per formed. • The repeated proofs that Mr. ,Maraden end Mr. Hannibal M'Artltur had received or the mischievous consequences or bolding the Sunday musters in the town and districts over which they . presided, had in duced theM to refire their attention to it ; and iris not to be supposed that any good conorquencel , would ever arise from collecting so many convict ' servants in the town of Peramoitat on Sundays, even with the advantage that they there possessed of eb tending divine service. The temptation to doesipation and indulgence that this town is well known to afford to them, formed at once a decisive objection to holding any assemblage of them here at any time, and uuder any circum-, stances. Strong as these objections might have sp.' reared to a full and literal compliance with thb proclamationof Governor Macquarrie, by Mr.Mons den and Mr. M'Arthur, there existed no reason tbat prevented those gentlemen from commuaizating to film the observations that their experience had slog grated respecting it ; and certainly mine that war ranted them, without such communication, to ex brcise thei• own discretienin relaxing the operation of a public order which they had beep sojoined enforce, and which the governor liad coneidevd to be useful. A ceiisure upon these Magistrates for their nes • f° 2 6l in 'tinfoil:Mg the proclamation was : publicly given. by Goveroor Macqoarrie. in an order that ;Filmied .ip the Sythery (Anew on the 7th of Fe bruary, 11110,ond some further regulations were made for giving greeter facility to•the Musters In the diffeient districts.' I fdund that this regulation -was, in many of then., hi verrioconapkte bon and that this citcuatatance ergs moth to be attributed,to the general state cifielactettey of the 'peke in New South Wales, thou nine unfavoura ble efieets of the tneainire. At Paramatta, and in the districts or the Negates ' bury, the Sunday musters have been much tp,.. sleeted; but in the districts of Evan, Cooke, end Bringelly, and at Liverpool, they were olvierved with some regularity, and, as the Magistrates in formed me, with considerable advantage. The convicts asrigned to settlers are not allowed to teasel from one district to another without a pass, signed by • magistrate, sad their names, as well as those of the settlers to whom they are assigned, are direct ed to he registered in a book kept by the chief con sbibleof each district; and the changes that occur in their destination ought likewise to be noted there. A pees, signed by the wester of a convict, is re quisite to enable him S. Varyl to any part of his own district ou his master's business; bat it is not now required. when he is sent to Sydney market. nor in any case is the pass directed in be shown to the chief constable of Sydney, or Ilse principal super intendent there, but is addressed to all whom it may concern. These regulations are as nec e yat the present period as they were at that of their first promulga tion in the colony ; but they do not seem to be in as active operation as they were then, or is they are now in van Dientan's Lund ; nor is the detailed exactness that they require either so well understood or performed as it is to that settlement. The principal ceases of this defect appears to me to have proceeded from'the want of a general superintendence of the police of New South Wales by one netson, to whom the Magistrates of the dif ferent districts should address their returns of the distribution and changes of the convicts, and 'to whom all p oven to convicts should he directed and shown. It Ai also to he 'attributed to the great incresse of the convict population, beyond the de mands of settlers who were in a condition to main tain, employ, and control them. Much also is justly attrilnited to the relaxed state of labour and discipline that prevails amongst the convicts in the employ of Government, and the general preference that is given' to it by them over the Service of-the settlers . . ' The jurisdiction of most of the Magistrates in New South Wales, until the 3d February, 1841, was limited by the terms of their commission& to particular districts; and pertly by appointment, and partly by - tacit acknowledgment and aenitbity, fdttr of them had scquited • kihd of special control, iodt•pendent of, but not inconsistent with the terms of their commissions. Thal of Mr. Wentworth's was an exception, for he was specially Charged withille police of Sydney ; bet the Rest: Mr. Ma►adan rievekshl a similar *is." diction at - Paramatta, winch, On his retirement from the magistracy, devolved upon Mr. Hannibal M'Arthur; Mr. Co: was considered the principal magistrate in the ll.iwkesbury districts and at Windsor; and Mr. Moore at Liverpool. The duties of these megialtstei have latterly 'so much increased, that their attendance at Paramatta, Windsor, and Liverpool, which was in the year 1819 only twice in the week, is now required on three or four days, and that of the police magistrate pf Sydney is on every day, and sometimes pro. filleted to a late hour. 'The bench of magistrates at Sydney consisted of Mr. Minchin, the superintend ent of police, who succeeded Mr. D. Wentworth in the month of March. MO, Captain Piper, Mr. Brookes, and Mr. J. L6icl; "Mr. Judge Advocate Wylde sometimes gave his attendance at Sydney, and upon these occasions acted as chairman; sod Mr. T. F. Campbell, the Governor's Secretary, has upon very few occasions assisted. Lieutenaut•Cio. vernor Erskine also received a commission as ma. giat✓tite of the territory, upoft his arrival in the colony with the 46th regiment, 'but has never acted either at Sydney, Where he resided, nor at any other place. Mr. J. Qoulbarn, the colonial secretary, Mr. Riley, and .Mr: SolNitie, were added to the number • of the magistrates at Sydney previous to my depot.. tart. Mr. Hannibal. M'Arthur, Mr. Harris, and Mr. R. Wentworth, after his resignation of the super. intendence of the police at Sydney, composed the *eh itParamatta, and Mr. Justice Field gave them his issistancion Saturday.: Mr. Crix, Mr. Mitehain, , Captain Brabyn, and Lieutenant Bell, forayed that at Windpor ; and Sir John Jamieson; and the Rev. Mr. Fulton, acted as Magistrates for the'clistrict of Evan, including that of Castlereagh. Mr. Moore, assisted occasionally by Mr. Brookes and Mr. Broughton, and di one period by" Mi. Redfern, Art Liverpool ; and Mr. Lowe and Mr. Howe, in the districts of 'Bringelly and Cooke, on the. river Nepean. peutenalot Lawson, as corn. =indent of the Bathurst station, exercised a ma gi‘feAal jurisdiction over the district that lies be tween that settlement and the Nepean river, which has latterly 'been extended, together with that of the other Magistrates of the colouy, to the whole settled disticts of New South Wiles. Considering the great anion.' increase that took place, to the convict population of New South . Wales, from the year 1815 to the year 1819, it is to he regretted that Governor Macquarie did not think fit to make .any more considerable addition to the numbers of the load magistracy, than those of Mr..Brookes' and Mr. Lowe, 'turn' the com mencement of the latter year'; and that the exer dise of his anthority• itt selecting the magistrates upon some occasions, as well as dismissing one of them on soother, has both diminished the respects bait' of the magisterial office in the colooy, and has deprived it or the assistance of a very valuable and efficientmember. • The appointments to whit% • I allude, are theme of Andrew Thomson sod &Tots :Lord; the first of these having • token place on the leth of January, 1840,.4nd kbe smokyd on or about the 3d August of that year. Both of these person', had been convicts, but had arrived in the colony yhen thiy were young. From the account of the4xec7utrir of A. Thant• ion..4t appears ,that he wart 10441 of .oastland, •.1.1. and that his relations there were itinerant traders to goods. He Ives transported to New South Wales at the age of 16, sod on his fiat arrival in the co lony, served us a labourer in the stone-maions gang at Paramstfm. On the expiration of lii, sentence ha wrist in Windsor to reside as a snider, and he there engaged in thornless as a retail shopkeeper, and built some small vessels, io whicb.he traded to Sydney. lie also became superintendent el some of the convict labourers in the employ of Go vet. 1111 l ent at IVindsor. lis all these occupations he war successful ; his trade extended ; he became possessed of farms, and made an establishment for the manufacture of salt, on K small island at the mouth of the river flawk.Ahury, where he also continued to build small vessels; and it was bele, and on the banks of the river, that, according to the accounts of several weans whom I feetrit. est- Windsor, Andrew Thomson carried on the illicit distillation of spirits. To his other employment., he 'aided those .of countable and public-house-keeprr, and through liberal credit sold forbearance, he acqiiired a great deal of influence amongst the class of sinall,r settlers in the neighhoueing districts of the H•wkerbury. To a 'considerable share of natural shrewdness lie added great activity of mind and body. and though quite uneducated when he arrived its the colony, he succeeded afterwards in acquiring the urdiusry knowledge of a retail shopkeeper. Nis comlucs in these sevesal capacities is amen dered to have been correct : but the habits sit. his domestic life were immoral. His hum.nity in affordiog relief to the settlers, whose - holds and houses had been inuodated upon two occasions by sodden rises of she river Hawkeshury, has been much noticed and eulogised by G.vernor Mac (loathe, in an epitaph that he caused to be solaced upon his tomb-stone in the churchyard at Windsor. .in 111 this act, i n w hi ch it has been said that there were mixed motives of humanity, in endeavouring to give l'elief to the unfortunate settlers, and of sell.inferest in supplyilg them with his own Knock, A. Thomson derivr.d some assistance from the boats and convicts•iti the employ of Gove.nruetit, that were then under his superintendence art Windsor, His activity upon this occasion is undeniable; but his claims to the praise of great humauity, are more questionable. I hive been induced to make these observatisns upon the character and conduct of A. Thomson, not horn any wish to detract from his merit as an individual, but because it is stated by Governor Macquarie, in the epitaph before alluded to, that Ga it was is consequence of his chewier and cue duct that he appointed him to be a magistrate of the colony, 'and that by the same act he restored him to that rank in society which he had lost." These circumstances are also of still further im portahee,ss the - appointment of A. Thomson to the Magistracy was one of those acts of Governor Macquarie that •has been urged most arongly against him by his enemies, and has been most questioned by his friends. In his inquiry respecting.the conduct of the lead ing individuals in the colony, Governor Miscque rie, on his arrival, applied to Lieutenant• Connie! Foveaux for information, and from him received a strong representation of the merits of A. Thomson, both as an individual. and an active and intelligent chief constable. I do not find however that this recommendation ruched the length of stating him to hued been fit for the office of magistrate ; certain it is, that the class of individuals to whom A. Thomson belonged had been considered and treated by Lieutenant-Colonel Foveaux in the same reserved and distant manner in which the civil and military officers of the colony bad always regarded thedi. A. Thomson had suffered some injury from the persons who succeeded to the government.' out tire suspension of Governor Bligh, and his 'fidelity td the legitimate authority of that officer had made him an object of their dislike and suspicion. The same circumstances furnished an additional and just ground' of recommendation of him to Governor Macquarie, who, in executing the Commando of his Sovereign to restore the legitimate authority that had been violated in the persou of his predecessor. naturally looked towards those individuals who bad remained steadfast in their loyalty and obedience. ' It must be acknowledged that. the Dumber of these persons was small, and when Governor Mac quarrie succeeded to the command in January, 1810, Mr. George Palmer and Mr. Arodall wete the only persons who resided at, or in the immedi ate neighlioyrhood of Windsor, who were eligible to the o ff i ce of magistrate, or competent to perform duties.its An offer of the magistracy was made to Lieutenant Bell, who was an. officer in the 1044 regiment, ind . who, though not directly implicated in the charge of mutiny against Governor . Bfigh, had, in obedience to the orders pl' the Chrinnanding "eitlicer, led .the detachment of "the regiment that made Governor Bligh prisimer in the Government Mine - at • Sydney. The condhet and charscter of Lieutenant Belt were in all ether respects urrim peached. He was solicited by Governor Msequar. rte to. act as magistrate for-the Windsor district. in coajnnetion with A. Thomson, and he did not positively decline it. He however felt so strong ea 'objection to net in suctv‘a capacity with a pecan), for au accidental association with whom, only a'faer "months berm* he had been- called to acc•lfht, 'mad reprimanded by his commanding officer, Colts net Johastoite, that he availed.himself of an early excuse for returning to his estate in the neighbour hoed, and aftermath was aentramEngland to give • evidence on Colonel Johnstone'r trial. "Althougtillte number of candtdates for the ma giaterial.dutin was thus lissitsd, it was rather itr. ih;t . GOvernor Macquarie did not select some °al of the officers of hi. own regiment, who id the 'Military Comtnand 'at Windsor might alio •have exectitied'the duties of the magistmel, rather than appoint at such an early period-of hid adusi &;aiµrattoq -Atottrew Thomas% who seas the Snit of i the causal of convicfs, that alter expiraltun of sea- SCUM had ever been so distinguished since the establishment of the eolon . y, ■nd whose elt ration to the bench of Magistrates proclaimed a ►ery ab rupt change in its system, by a person who could not then he suppoied to have much knowledge of its interests. The second reason alleged by Governor Mac quarie for this appointment, was the restoration of A. Thomson to that rank in society that he had lost by conviction for crime, and tranoportation to New South Wales. Now, it has been seen, that the: condition of the parrots of A. Thomson, and his rank to society before conviction, were exceedingly humble, and that his own effints and industry in tho colony had already placed him above that con• damn, when he was made chief constable of the district of Windsot, and beastute apo or of houses in the town, and of estates in the neighbour. hood ; and, if even this appointment had the effect of raisir.g him to that rank no society that be had lost (though in point of fact it had that of raising him greatly above it), some considerat:on was surely doe to the feelings of those magistrate., as well as that society, who, with the knowledge that they possessed of his recent situation, could not bat re gard the unsolicited return of this loot member to his rank and place amongst them as a degradation of their own. Andrew Thoinaon, notwithstanding. was theiceforth admitted to the table of Governor Macquarie, and to the or the officers of the 73d regio:id, by a change of regulation, bat not of teein; in the military body, that was no less re makable that the change that had taken place in the sentiments of the civil chief. A. Thomson did not long enjoy these honours, for he died in the month of October of pie same year io which lie was made a magistrate ; and it is only jest to state. that an address from the iishahitants of the Windsor district was presented to Governor Macquarrie upon this occasion, in which they expressed their regret for the foes of Mr. A. Thomsitn, whom they described their common friend and patron." The nest in.tance of the elevation to the magit• trey of a person whohiail been a convict, was that of Mr. S. Lord. Ile, like A. Thomson, had been transported to the colony when young, and at first was assigned as a ut to Captain Rowley. of the 102 d regiment. He afterwards livid with a female convict who had some property in Sydney, and by the profits of her trade in baking, and by his own industry. he acquired sufficient meant to embark in larger ape. colations; tile* he conducted with some 'decree both to Indi a and in the South Sea fisheries. It was at the period nhen his undertakings were most successful, that Giivernor Macquarrie arrived. and found him in the possession of one of the best houses in Sydney. The circumstances of Mr. Lord's domestic life were very notorious in the co lony at the lime of ine appointment to the magis tracy, and the public unimadvereions that were made in the Sydney Gazette, upon several attempts, which on tovestigation appeared to have been made by him, to seduce two of the girls of the orphan school at Sydney, added to the general feeling of ourpriee with which . Mr. Lord's elevation to the ma. gistracrwas.viewed in the enlony, although these .animadversions did not positively charge him with the crime. Mr. Lord continued to act as magi,- tree at Sydney for some time, and no objectioo appears to have been made to an association with hem br any other person than the Rev. Mr. Marsden. - This gentleman had refused to sct with Mr. Lord ■nd -Mr. Thomson as trustees of a turnpike road, to which office they had been appointed by Go. vernor Macgtiarrie , and without any - pretious ioti• Minion us Mr. Marsden. His reasons for this Objection were founded upon the immoiality of their private lives; and the no• toriely of that fact does °wooer to me to have justi. Bed Mr. 'bier/idea's refusal to be associated with them in the management of the public roods; a duty which would necessarily bring them much to. either, end ninth might have the effect of showing to the colony. that Mr. Marsden associated with them from choice es well as from ditty. Mr. Marsden's objectiooa to the policy of sp• pointing men who had been convicts to the maws. tracy, had at an . early period become the subject of discussion with Governor Macquarrie. who appears even at that time to have so fully convinced him. self of the prbpiiety and expediency dutch appoint. seas, that he could not tolerate any difference of opinion upon it, though proceeding from a person So respectable and so well informed as Mr. Marsden. The account that he has Riven of his ibterstew with Governor Maceuarrie, in which this subject woo first discusaed, is strougly illustrative of the feelings that have subsequently influenced, • and onfortu. nately divided them, upon many others. In the expreslions of Governor Macqusirie, there only be traced that 'determination which he has .never relinquished under any cirennistanees, of ad. hering to a system recommended more by motives of humanity than of reason, and as new as it was hazaidous in practice ; and, in the language of Mr. Marsden there is Observable the same andaunt eil and inflexible spirit that he sftorwerde ed, whenever an auemptwas made to do violence to xr feelings, or to woond Ins cluarscter,. Upon't his occasion, i does not appear that those feelings were . partaken by,the ot!)'er Magistrates . f the colony, nor by those •wlto rat the,sanie bench with Mr. Lord et Sydney.. - - • Without stating that his elevatiou.to Abet rank has had a positive influence .upon,his subsequent conduct, it is .only justice to him to state, that bis former irregularities have been latterly iedreined 4 the respectability of his domestic *le.- Mr. Lord, after his appoimmeat to the -niagistva'cy,-became soctiourer in the. town of Sydney ; .but the *mµ. .neon Cu at brat. conducted by . tui palm' • Mt. 'Williams, a free period, and •latecahtee of the bank of New Sth Wales, sod. latterly by M. • Lord binvoilr.. , Tai duty - has oirtrogoirily ttvo4ight him into contort with a very lea.. Ileetriptioo of. t peptlein the thwo of Sydney.• He hos, howevey, -_*_.__ -*: " ,- ,~-~, ....la .~.-V 1 i WI ,