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[Page 12]

January 1808

          21st. They dined together on the 24th for the first time, in one of the Barracks before the Door of which they planted the regimental colours, and the music played while about nine or ten o'clock of this Party besides the Military Officers, were (as I was informed the next day by Mr Atkins the Judge Advocate) Mr Bayly, Surgeon Jamison, Doctor Townson, Mr. Grimes Surveyor General, Mr Mitcham assistant surgeon, Messr. John I Gregory, Blaxlands settlers, Mr. Garnham Glaxcell Merchant, Mr. Hanibal McArthur Nephew, Mr Edward McArthur Sen, to John McArthur, and John McArthur himself who was to be tried by a criminal court the next day.  This extraordinary meeting, when the six officer members of that court were collected with the prisoner whom they were to try, seemed to indicate sedition but no person then conceived of it otherwise, than a trick of theirs to intimidate and insult the government.

         22nd On the morning of the 25th the judge advocate and the other members of the court met. The Judge Advocate read the precept and administered the oaths to the six members - the prisoner then desired they would proceed no further until

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