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January 1808
the six Officers met again, without any orders or directions from me, and wrote two letters, one of which to the best of our recollection was inclosing [enclosing] the objections of Mr McArthur to the Judge Advocates sitting, the other accusing Mr Gore of Perjury for having sworn McArthur was not in his Custody demanding McArthur to be given up, and requiring another Judge Advocate to be appointed. - I returned no answer.
36th. According to appointment the Magistrates, Mr Atkins, Mr Palmer and Mr Campbell, met at Government House in the morning together with Mr Gore Provost Marshall, Mr Griffin my Secretary and Mr Fulton Clergyman, a little before the Six Officers assembled in the Court However, in the course of the Day they were joined by Mr Arndell, and Mr Williamson Magistrates; at which time Mr Atkins presented a Memoriae to me stating his Situation as Judge Advocate bearing his Majesty's Commission; that he he had been ill used, and degraded; that the Six Members refused to swear him in, that the Prisoner, McArthur had been, and was on terms of intimacy with the Soldiers, and Officers; that he heard he had dined with them the Sunday preceding at the Mess; that McArthur's language had been inflamatory to a great degree - that under all their circumstances
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