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January 1808
and afterwards disposed of it up to as high as eight hundred pr.Cent [percent] profit, but these Evils were now done away to the great satisfaction of the People of the Colony, except the Individuals alluded to at the head of whom is McArthur and the Officers; but I need not enter farther into this Business, which has been explained in my Dispatch by the Buffalo of the 7th Feby [February] 1807 and as I have delineated the Characters of the Persons whom I have to deal with in my Dispatch by the Duke of Portland.
55th - I have already said that Martial Law was proclaimed it was done in the following words.
Proclamation of Marial Law
George Johnston
"The present alarming state of the Colony having induced the principal Inhabitants to call upon me to interpose the Military power for their relief and to place His Excellency Governor Bligh in Arrest, I have with the advice of my officers considered it necessary for the good of His Majesty's Service to comply with their request; I do therefore hereby proclaim Martial Law in this Colony to which all persons are commanded to submit until measures can be adopted for the restoration of the Civil Law on a permanent foundation. By
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