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MARGARUT. I assistant-surgeon, who conclitcts it with great activity and propriety.'*^ Troublesome conyicts were arbitrarily moved from place to place so as to break up their plots. Writing to Colonel l*aterson (Aug. 180r)), King said: — •* 1 am aony to l>e iitiiler the necosaity of scTifling two such characters Inn H. B. Hayes ami Maurice ^largarot. ' . . . H. 11 Hayes i.s a convict I for life. At the expiration of Margarot'a term of tranaportatiou it will he 'necessary to send him to thia flettlement, in cttsc no Court of Civil Juris- diction he previously estahlisherl at Fort Dalryinple, to answer the large rlehts he has contracteti at this settlement, autl for the forthcoming of hia person this notification is to be consiclere*! a antiicieut detainer. . . . They are not to be victualled at the public expense, hut as Margarot has no re»otircca I have no objection to an exception respecting hbti if yon sboidd think it necessary/' For better secnrity, Hayes and Margarot were conveyed from Norfolk Island in H.M.S. Bujjalo, and it was while that vessel called at Ilohart that ^largarot attempted to impose upon Governor Collins. Colonel Paterson did not retain Margarot at Port Dalrymple, and he was sent to Newcastle* Hayes, the abductor, appears to have led a strange life in Sydney. He had considerable means, and acqnired property. His intrigues with Margarot must Imve lieen well known, and Margaret's journals abound with notices of him. Hayes endeavoured to spin webs of coiispmicy under cloak of meetings of Freemasons* In 1803, for such practices, he was ordered to the new settle- I Blent at Van ]>iemen*s Land ; hut Lieut. Bowen's arrange- [ments were not adapted for snch a prisoner. In 1805 Hayes was proclaimed in Sydney as having ** escaped from justice," was apprehended, and sent to Norfolk Island, wlience he was carried in the Btijjaloj with Margarot, to Van Diemen's Land. The creation of three new settlements within the space [of one year, and the necessity for mamtaining a staff at [each, sorely taxed the resources of the New South Wales [Corps. In 1805 Paterson was in command at Port Dal- Irymple. A subaltern, Piper, was at Norfolk Island. iFoveaux had gone to England. A civilian was in charge at INewcastle. Collins had a detachment of marines at Hobart iTown. Major Johnston and the Governor agreed to repre- King to Lord GamdeUj 30th April, 1805.