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Men like Lord would have been excluded, but men like 

 Fulton received. 



During 1818 the hostility between Marsden and Macquarie 

 culminated in the dismissal of the former from the magistracy ; 

 and the events leading up to his dismissal bore not only a 

 personal but a political aspect of considerable interest. The 

 bad feeling of the Governor towards the chaplain (for Macquarie 

 seems from the beginning to have been the offender) had been 

 much increased by Macquarie's mistake in attributing to Marsden 

 Bayly's letter describing the treatment of the female convicts. 1 

 It was further strengthened by the fact that Marsden, acting as 

 a magistrate, had taken the affidavits of the public flogger and 

 gaoler in regard to the flogging of Blake and Henshall in 1815.2 

 The Governor's sense of propriety was so far overcome by his 

 bitterness that he allowed his secretary, who was a magistrate 

 of the territory, to examine the gaoler on oath and try, without 

 success, to obtain an admission that Marsden had solicited him 

 to come forward and make his declaration. 3 Marsden was also 

 summoned to Government House, and in an official interview, 

 in the presence of one of the chaplains and of Macquarie's 

 personal staff, accused of seditious and turbulent conduct. At 

 the same time the Governor strongly opposed Marsden's desire 

 to retire from the magistracy. 



A trivial incident was sufficient in such a state of affairs to 

 bring about a crisis. In 1815, while Marsden had been in New 

 Zealand on missionary business, Macquarie had established a 

 Native Institution for teaching the children of the blacks. The 

 school was at Parramatta, but nevertheless Macquarie did not 

 include Marsden in the Committee of Management. To Mars- 

 den, the Principal Chaplain and Resident Magistrate at Parra- 

 matta, this presented itself as a deliberate slight, and he 

 -studiously avoided taking the least interest in its progress. Thus 

 in 1816, when the Governor paid his annual official visit to the 

 school, Marsden did not wait upon him. J. T. Campbell, the 

 Governor's Secretary, who loyally detested his chiefs opponents, 

 irritated by what he considered a discourtesy, inserted in the 



i See Chapter VI. 3 See Chapter VIII. 



3 See Appendix to Bigge's Reports. Copy of this examination. R.O., MS. 



