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of being Prisoner at their Bar, directed the prosecution; for he brought forward my Letter Book which contained my correspondence with the Secretary of State, out of which he read such passages as suited his designs and audaciously browbeat, and interrogated my Secretary to divulge all conservations he might have heard me enter into, in which he was supported by the lawless Members of that Tribunal, who at last acquitted him on the Evening of the 6th February. Immediately after, a great number of Soldiers assembled as a Mob, and with Sergeant Major Whittle at their head carried McArthur in a Chair fixed on a Stage which they bore on their Shoulders, in triumph with loud Huzzas round a part of the Town of Sydney. His Majesty's ship Porpoise, then under Actg [Acting] Lieutt Jas Symons Command, gave three cheers. Late in the evening McArthur's Agents, and those of the New South Wales Corps by allurements and threats produced a general illumination; the Bells rang in the Church Steeple, and eleven Guns were fired in an adjoining Cove, as I believe, on board the Schooner Parramatta belonging to McArthur.
93rd - As The Revd. Henry Fulten showed a public and pointed disapprobation of their measures on the evening of the 26th January
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