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pendant, the erisign of hist auttiosq, to be
trout but ship, which lay in the bar.
to thrtie iosolts, he was made the el).
waked and public ridicule, For keveral
solyetpient to hl5 arrest, public rejosCi%B
• to be celebrated. The inhabitants and
, .tit the town were compelled,under the threat
~t iwir windows broken, to light up their
11,n1fires were made in several parts of the
, obgies of himself anti some of the civil
..;ns of the cstabhsliment were burnt by the mi.,
to ti slily tner mutinous and revolutionary
On the 27th, the day utter his arrest, a
or 21 guns was ordered, to be fired by 'CO-
rot+ 1 Joimsoo, ay anivlier token of joy at his over-
throw. in this degraded Aiwa, the Governor re.
tivitied until the 29th of November, 1809, when
6()%ernor M'Clulrry came out with orders from Go-
vernment so reinstate him in his authority, and to
fled- it e all the aas of the usurped Government null
and void, Soon after this,• he set sail for Europe,
arrived in England, on the 96th of October,

Governor Bligh, in his evidence, gave a more tie-
hailed and minute account of the transactions of
that period, and he was afterwards confirmed by the
te;tittiony of a great Many-other witness, the sum
of
,whose jestimoity went to establish these int-
portant propositioost--That. at the time Governor
Bligh entered upon the government of the Colony,
it was in a very wretched and, distressed state,. in
coosequence of the traffic irt.spirita *mono the
Military ; that, at tbsiclose of the year 1007, and
beginuing of ma, the Colony watt in a state of
prusperity and content, unknown under any former
Got ermnent ; that the only discontent then exist.
Mg, VMS eXiIIUSIVOIy confined, to the military and a
indivitieals, wising from the measures of reform
adopted t.y Ilia Governor, in respect of spirits
t,,at had the rothiary remained ,firtnly attached to
the Governor, inch: was :not the .`lightest ground
fru apprehending'. a mutiny or insurrection on
the part of the inhabitants; that no common'.
written or otherwise, was made by Colonel
Johnson to Goveroor Bltgb, either on his own be-
half, or on behalf. of the colonists, up to the 26th
of January 1808, to Waco him to,abdicate the Go-
vernment of tile Colon% : that the condom of the
Governor was uniformly popular, and gave general
teatisfactinit to the inhabitatots and settlers; that in
the general administration ofjosties and the laws
ef the Colony, he was strictly impartial to all ranks
arid, clas•es of the people ;. and that at the period of
the insurrection, there was no. symptom whatever
disaffection or discontent on the part of the in.
habitants.

es—PC-1110-the-Utitnitnu tairivr, came
immediately to Sydney, contrary to die advice et
116 medical attendant, alarmed as he wail tor the
consequences. of Ace impending storm. The mo-
ment he arrived at the Barracks, he was *around-
ed by crewds of people, anxiously aid titmultortuly
calling upon him to do something for the preserva-.
Lion of the Colony. He was followed into his own
Barrack by a considerable number of the more re..
spectable inhabitants, who recapitulated to him their.
grievances, and told him, that if he did not immedi-
ately put the Gammr in arrest, an insurrection
woulditneak out, and all the blood that would be
.spilt must lie on his shouldets. They implored him, in
tie name of every thing that was sacred, to direst it
forth his hand and save the Colony from bloodshed,
anarchy, and contusion. Colonel Johnson said he
would do any thing for the preservation of the set-
tlement, and tor the happiness and security ► f the
Colonists. Mr. M'Atthur, who had been liberated
tram gaol by Colooel Johnson, on his arrival in
the town, then drew up a requisition to the same
effect, calling upon Colonel Johnson to put the Go-
vernor Under arrest in order to save the Colony from
all the horrors of insurreCtion. This was signed by
several of the most respectable inhabitants then pie-
sent, and handed to the Colonel ; who viewing, as
he said in his defence, with e deepest concerti the
threatening dangers which sorrounded, he resolved
ul on a measure which appeared to be the only one
vaxulated to evert- the impending calamities, and
under all these cirrumstances, ant for these reasifils,
he accordingly put the Governor in a state of attest.
The witnesses in behalf of the prisoner stated,

that no ',Tripod violence way used towards the Go. ,1
vernor ; so far from it, he himself expressed le
Colonel Johnson his thanks for the handsome man—
ner be carried the wishes of the Colony into execu-
tion. They all swore most difitind y that there were
no military rejoicings on the.OOCAlOll whatever, and
that the illuminations in the town of Sydney were
per fetil y 'voluntary on the part of the people. •
Governor MO having put in an able reply to
Colonel Johnson's,delenee, the whole proceedings
cloyed ; but the verdid of the Court cannot be made
panne until it Iris received the approbation of his
Royal Highaebs the Pi taco REGeNT.