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The promoters of the Sydney College censured him in 1832 for intriguing against its interests, and founding another under his own control. They cited against him their own prospectus, written by himself, to the effect that the success "of the institution was no longer problematical." Lang's defence was ambiguous. Having persuaded Lord Goderich that to procure the college he must have the immigrants, he told the shareholders that to procure the immigrants he was obliged to put forward the scheme of the college.

General Darling's government closed about forty years after the foundation of the colony; and the first immigrants rapidly disappeared as their children passed into middle age. The links which bound the memory of all to the pilgrim fathers were broken in every grade of society.

D'Arcy Wentworth ended his bustling career in 1827 at the age of sixty-five years, leaving a son whose name was in the mouths of all. Oxley the explorer, the friend of Flinders, passed away. Bungaree, a native, whom Flinders was allowed to take as a companion in exploration, and whom he extolled as "brave and worthy," was gathered to his fathers. Mr. Balcombe^[1] the Colonial Treasurer died in 1829, and was succeeded by Mr. C. D. Riddell. Captain Piper,^[2] whose accounts were in disorder, was superseded in his position as "Naval Officer," and his duties were undertaken by Mr. J. T. Campbell, under the style of Collector of Customs. Mr. Mackaness the Sheriff, whose presiding at a public meeting in 1827, of an imputed inflammatory character, was condemned, was removed from office, and Mr. Macquoid, a Java merchant, took his place. The extension of commerce and of pastoral pursuits, which had dated from the adoption of Mr. Bigge's recommendations, and was aided by geographical discoveries, necessitated an increase of civil establishments; and many new officials appeared upon the scene. A Registrar of the Supreme Court was appointed in the