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Copy of a Letter sent to Col. Brownrigg
New South Wales
March 11th 1802
Sir
I did myself the Honor of informing you by my Letter dated the 6th November last, that Capt. John McArthur of the New South Wales Corps was ordered Home under Arrest by Governor King, that Captain McArthur embarked in a Ship called the Hunter bound for Calcutta, by which Conveyance I should have done myself the Honor of stating to you for His Royal Highness the Commander in Chief's Information the Circumstances which led to that Step, but that there was a probability of a more direct Conveyance.
In my Letter dated 24th August last I informed you of the Trial of a Lieutenant Marshall, and of the Correspondence that took place in consequence of the Governor's having signified his disapprobation of some part of the Proceedings of the Court on that Trial. The sailing of the Albion with a representation of these Transactions I indulged the pleasant Hope had ended any further Controversy on that Subject, but in this I greatly lament that I was much deceived, for in consequence of Lieut.t Marshall having been released, contrary to the wish of Capt. McArthur who as one of his Prosecutors, a Correspondence ensued between him and the Governor, which he perceived had involved him in some difficulty, and that he might not stand alone in this Contest, he used every Art to induce the Officers of the Corps to quarrel with the Governor, likewise alledging as the ostensible reason, that his Treatment of them had been such, that they could not in Justice to themselves, pass it over unnoticed, but it was in reality because he had had a personal quarrel and did not wish to appear Singular.
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