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presented a dutiful Address, signed by nearly nine hundred Persons which never was known in this Country before a copy of which I enclose but to this Address it is to be observed, that John McArthur, Garnham Blaxcell, Edward McArthur, Hanibal McArthur, John Blaxland, Gregory Blaxland, Captain Townson, Doctor Townson, Charles Grimes, Surgeon Jamison, Nicholas Bayly, and D'Arcy Wentworth names are not affixed, beside some others; or any of the Military Officers. These Persons, checked in the enormous practice of bartering Spirits, which had principally been almost the ruin of the Country, became privately discontented, and the Arch-Feind [Arch-fiend], Jno McArthur, so influenced their minds, as to make them dissatisfied with Government, and tricked them into Misfortunes even to his own private advantage, which they now at too late a period acknowledge; in addition to the iniquity he has led them, in Treason and Rebellion to the State.
5th This McArthur began his Career with endeavors to delude the Settlers and Land-Holders, but who execrated him for the attempt, as he had always been odious to them. He then opposed the Civil Magistracy, and bid defiance to all Law and Colonial Regulations; and after all, under the pretext of great benefits which would arise to the Military, he, with a Mr Nicholas Bayly, seduced Major Johnston, and
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