Primary tabs
Transcription
[Page 7]
Cells Sydney Jail New South Wales
2nd June 1808
Sir
From the agitation my mind has undergone I inadvertently omitted in my Letter of the 31st May to tell you, that when I was taken by four Constables from the Cells, in which I am incarcerated, on Monday the 30th of May, I was conducted by them, to the Military Barracks (it was then precisely 25 Minutes after 12 OClock) where I was ordered to be kept until two OClock (the Court as I was informed being adjourned to that hour), as a show and Spectacle for the derision and amusement of the Soldiers, one Constable keeping constantly by my side on the Parade, and the Chief Constable occasionally attending, and walking on the other side, whenever he observed Mc Arthur approaching to and coming on the Parade.
The Barracks, being at length opened which they called the Court house, and the Persons assembled who were to compose the Court, it is now