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services of this remarkable man have not yet received their full measure of acknowledg- 

 ment, but it is to him that the .people of to-day have to look back for the beginnings of 

 the social and political privileges they now enjoy. The freedom of the Press and trial l,y 





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jury are both directly traceable to his action. On the arrival of Sir Francis Forbes, his 

 Charter of Justice was formally proclaimed in Sydney on the i ;th of May, 1824; and about 

 the same time arrived in the colony a great many of those whose names have since become 

 part of the legal history of the mother-colony. In that year, too, the first attempt to 



