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whatever tumult or other circumstance happen, any person seen out after sunset will be fired at by the patrolling military and constables."

H.M.S. Calcutta, after leaving Colonel Collins at Port Phillip, had arrived in Sydney under Captain Woodriff. His aid was given in accord with dispositions made by King at midnight on the 4th March. Colonel Paterson wrote at two p.m. on the 5th to King:—

"We are all very anxious respecting the result of your Excellency's journey to Parramatta. I had hardly returned to the Parade when I found Captain Woodriff with about 150 men (seamen and marines). Both Captain W. and myself thought it prudent to keep them, as well as the corps, under arms until daylight this morning, and should I not hear from your Excellency before dark I shall request Captain Woodriff to keep his men in readiness in case of alarm, and the whole of the corps will be ready to fall in at a moment's notice."

(The Colonel had called at the Governor's house and reported that Mrs. King and her daughter were well. He sent Mrs. Paterson's compliments to the Governor.)

On the 7th March King issued a notice calling in "the insurgents still wandering about," and threatening condign punishment to those who might not, before the evening of the 9th, "give themselves up to the settlements and masters they respectively belong to." On the 9th a General Order conveyed the Governor's thanks to all loyal subjects of His Majesty for what had been done.

To Colonel Paterson, to the Sydney Association, to Captain Abbott and his detachment, to the Association and the inhabitants of Parramatta, to Captain Woodriff and his officers, ship's company, and marines, and to Major Johnston, King, "with heartfelt pleasure," requested that Colonel Paterson would communicate his sentiments. Johnston and his detachment were thanked for their despatch

"in marching to Parramatta, and immediately after pressing their eager services to march in pursuit of the insurgents, their active perseverance and zeal, notwithstanding the fatigue they had undergone, in running after a body of 266 armed rebels upwards of seven miles from the place where certain information was received of them; the gallantry of Major Johnston's conduct with only one trooper, in detaining that body till his small force of twenty-five soldiers with Quartermaster Laycock and several of the volunteer inhabitants of Parramatta could overtake him, securing the two principal ringleaders, and the consequent rout of the rebel body after the opposition it made to the King's forces," &c.