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To go farther back, would fill a large Volume in explaining the wickedness of McArthur and Bayly, and their Adherents; the former stands sufficiently notorious in all the accounts which have been sent to the Secretary of States Office since the Colony began, and whose very breath is sufficient to contaminate a multitude, and who has been a disturber of public society, and a Venomous Serpent to His Majesty's Governor's. He has heretofore overcome them with his Artifice; but under the firmness I have pursued, he has been obliged to add low and illiberal falsehoods and a cowardly force of Arms. As to the latter, I believe he stands dismissed from the New South Wales Corps for improper conduct, and is of, notoriety, likewise in the Secretary of State's Office.
8th From the frequent desertions of the Convicts, it was necessary to make a Colonial Regulation, that Masters of Ships and Vessels, should give a Bond of Eight hundred pounds, with two sureties in fifty pounds each, not to take away such Characters, when they sailed from the Port. McArthur, and his Partner Mr Garnham Blaxcell became Bondsmen on a Vessel called the Paramatta [Parramatta] belonging in part to McArthur, and the Vessel sailed for Taheite [Tahiti] in June 1807.
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