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A USTRALASIA ILL USTRA TED. 



Nelson, to receive his thanks publicly on the quarter-deck. Was it for me, then, 

 to sully my reputation and to disgrace the medal I wear by shrinking from death, 

 which 1 had braved in every shape ? An honourable mind will look for some 

 other motive for my retirement, and will find it in my anxiety for those papers, 

 which during this inquiry have been occasionally produced to the confusion of those 

 witnesses who thought they no longer existed." 



The sentence of the Court, which was delivered on the 2nd of July, reads as 

 follows : " The Court having duly and maturely weighed and considered the whole of 

 the evidence adduced on the prosecution, as well as that which has been offered in 

 defence, are of opinion that Lieutenant-Colonel Johnston is guilty of the act of mutiny, 

 as described in the charge, and do therefore sentence him to be cashiered." Macarthur, 

 having left the Army some time before, was no longer amenable to military discipline, 

 but the Home Government interdicted his return to the colony for a period of eight 



years. Bligh was made a 

 Rear-Admiral of the Blue, 

 and died in 1817, nine 

 years after the celebrated 

 military mutiny at Sydney, 

 and twenty-six years after 

 that romantic episode in 

 the history of the Sea 

 known as the " Mutiny of 

 the Homily" with which his 

 name is inseparably linked. 



GOVERNOR MACQUARIK. 



Colonel Lachlan Mac- 

 quarie, who succeeded Cap- 

 tain Bligh, arrived in Port 

 Jackson on the last day 

 of the year 1 809, bring- 

 ing with him a detach- 

 ment of his regiment, the 

 Seventy - third. He also 

 brought a despatch from 

 Lord Castlereagh, an- 

 nouncing that Major John- 

 ston was to be sent Home 

 under arrest on a charge 

 of mutiny ; that the New 



South Wales Corps was to be relieved by the Seventy-third ; and, as an expression of 

 the opinion entertained by the Home Government of the recent transactions, that Bligh 

 was to be re-instated as Governor for twenty-four hours by Macquarie, whom he was to 

 recognize as his successor, and then proceed to England. But as Bligh was not in 



GOVERNOR LACHLAN MACQUARIE. 



