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January 1808
Commissions, private Instructions, Letter Books, and Papers; the Judge Advocates and Commissary's Papers and accounts even likewise taken possession of, and Centinels [Sentinels] placed over them.
51st - When we, now, consider the changes of Stations of Captains Abbott and Kemp, McArthur committing himself by writing contemptuous paper; His coming to live at Sydney, and other circumstances I have detailed, as well as some which I have not mentioned that took place before such as declaring to Mr Fulton the Soldiery would not bear the prohibition of bartering spirits, and that such measures would not be suffered were there fifty men of Spirit in the Colony, and as going about the Country telling some of the Settlers that I governed very ill, and that he was determined to go home and have me recalled that he might prosecute me, also his making a seditious speech before a Bench of Magistrates, and a great number of Persons whom he contrived to assemble to hear a pretended impeachment against a Mr Robert Campbell Junior, for stealing two Copper Boilers, although Mr Robert Campbell only executed the Naval Officers and my orders
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