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now Sir for you to judge how great must have been my surprise, on seeing the identical Captain Kemp presiding as Judge Advocate, who on the 25th Jany of last January, acted so conspicuous a part, by threatening to commit His Majesty's Judge Advocate to Jail, and who at lenth [length] turned him out of Court - the very monster who volunteered as a Witness to swear before Jamison and Blaxland, two of his self created fellow Justices, that I was guilty of the pretended crime (for which he was now actually sitting in Judgement on me) with which the Traitor Mc Arthur had charged me - for Kemp had sworn on the 1st of March, before the above two persons that I heard him tell me that the Court would return Mc Arthur to his former Bail, as I bowed to him at the time of his telling me so!
Lieutenants Moore, Laycock, and Lawson who had likewise been subpeaned [subpoenaed] as Witnesses against me, in this cause, and Captain Abbot also who allowed