whatever tumulfc or other circumstance happen, any person seen out after sunset will be fired at by the patrolling military and constables," H.M.S. Cftlctdta, 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 wi*ote at tW'O p.m. on the 5th to King :■ —
- We are nil very anxious respecting the result of your Excellency^a i
journey to Parramatta. I had hardly returned to the Parade when I i fonnd Captain Woodriff with al>out 150 man (aeamen and marines). » . . Both Captain W. and myself thought it prudent to keep them, as well as the corpa, under arms until daylight this mornings and shovdd I not hear from your Excellency before dark I shall request Captain T^'oodriff to keep his men in readiness in case of alarm, and the whole of the corps will m ready to fall in at a moment's notice. '* i (The Colonel had cahed 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* j To Colonel Paterson, to the Sydney Association, to" Captain Abbott and liis detachment, to the Association and the inhabitants of Parramatta, to Captain Woodriff and J his officers, ship's compan3% and mariues, 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 marcliing to Parramatta, and immediately after pressing their eager aervicea to march in pursuit of the iusurgentB, their active perseverance J and zeal, notwithstanding the fatigue they had nndergone, in running I after a bod}' of 200 ariued reliele upsvards of seven milc-a from the place ' where certain information was received of them j the gallantry of Major Johnston's conduct with only one trooper, in detaining that hody tiU his small force of twenty-five aohliera with Quartermaster Laycock and aeyeral of the volnnteer inhabitants of Parramatta conld overtake him, secnring the two principal riugleadera, antl the consecpient routy of the rebel body after the opposition it made to the King's forces,*' kc.
