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committed for trial. On the 11th June, refusing to plead before the Criminal Court, he was found guilty and fined "£50 to the King."

Paterson's local measures need not be enlarged upon. He, like Foveaux, reverted to strict control of the emancipist class, and apprised convict attorneys daring to plead without special license that they would be severely punished. A flood at the Hawkesbury caused apprehension in August, and the magistrates recommended "rigorous means to prevent the monopoly of grain."

For some time it was not known whither Bligh had proceeded in the Porpoise. Paterson reviewed the troops with approbation. The Sydney Gazette reported that Johnston sailed in the Admiral Gambier, receiving "military honours, the populace taking leave of this much-esteemed officer with reiterated bursts of acclamation." In April the Governor and the New South Wales Corps attended Divine Service in mourning, "as a tribute of respect to the memory of the late much lamented Governor, Philip G. King, Esquire." In August tidings arrived that the corps had been officially numbered as the 102nd Regiment. Paterson inspected and complimented it, declaring that he would report its condition with satisfaction to His Royal Highness, the Commander-in-Chief. His words were grateful to the corps, for no man knew how its deeds would be scanned in England, either at the War Office or by the Secretary of State. Bligh's partisans hoped for his reinstatement. He had been deposed in Jan. 1808, and in Nov. 1809 no tidings had reached the colony as to what was thought in England. Bligh. meantime, had sailed not to England, but to the Derwent, where Colonel Collins received him politely. When a letter from Paterson with his proclamation denouncing Bligh's breach of faith reached Hobart, Collins became cooler. Bligh was alarmed, and hastily took refuge with his daughter in the Porpoise. Collins prevented the despatch of supplies to the ship, and having no respect for an officer who broke his word, upbraided those who were so "infatuated as to consider Captain Bligh the Governor still."

On the last day of the year 1809 a new Governor, Colonel Macquarie, brought news of his own appointment. He