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95 - Among the numerous alarming and terrific reports and orders that were given out every day, on Monday the 8th Feby [February] in the morning at a time when the Soldiers and Towns people were filled with Spiritous Liquors, the Bell Man was ordered to cry through the Streets that a meeting would be held in the church at 8 o'clock at Night. At the hour appointed the Church was crowded with Soldiers and the disaffected Party, of whom the Chief were Lieutt Wm Minchin, Lt Wm Lawson, Mr Darcy Wentworth, Edward McArthur, Gregory Blaxland, Lieut Wm Moore, John Harris Surgeon of the New South Wales Corps, Thomas Jamison principal Surgeon, Doctor Townson Isaac Nichols, Henry Kable, besides these were Nicholas Bayly, and Garnham Blaxcell, who, assisted by Simeon Lord, proposed that a Sword should be voted to Major Johnston, not under the value of one hundred Guineas, for the wise and salutary measures which he had adopted to suppress the Tyrrany which ruled this Country, and with it, an address of thanks, for his manly and spirited Conduct on the 26th of January. That an address of Thanks should be presented to the New south Wales Corps for their Spirited
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