to the woods, he was to outlaw them and to shoot them* The orders were rehietaiitly oheyed. The settlers, accordiofj' to Lieut. Kent, for the most part elected Hohart as their new aljotle, in order to remove as far as possible from BUf^h, New Norfolk and Noi'folk Plains still bear witness to the affection with which the exiles regarded the place M from which they had been torn, and whose memory was ■ revived in naming tlieh new homes. The historian'^ of Tasmama declared that ** years after they spoke of the ehange with ref^ret ami sadness/* Dr. Harris preditited (Oct. 1807) that the state of dread created by Bligh eoald not last long, liligh in the same month reported that the New South Wales Corps was dangerous l)ody :
- ' About seventy of the privates wei-e originally convicts, and the wliol
are bo vory much engrafted with that order of perBoiis iis in mauy inKtaiiees to ha'« had ri vt^iy evil tendency- . . . There is no remedy hut by the change of iiiilitary duty, a eireumatauee which can only prevent a fixed corps buconiing a dangeroiiis luiiitia,'^ He roused their imssions by his lawless treatment ol JIacarthur, wlio had once been a captain amongst them, and by threatening^ several of their officers. Macartbin-, after presenting an address to the retiring (iovernor, King, was et|iially prominent in presenting for the free hihabitants congratulations to the risen sun. Johnston, on the part of the mihtary, and the Judge- Advocate for the civilians, presented addresses also. Bligh warmly resiionded. In a few days he assinned an attitude of hostility to Macarthur, The latter deposed that Governor King, on J^h^di's assumption of office, retired for a brief period to the Government House at Parramatta; that Mac- arthur saw Bligh there, broached the subject of wool pro- duction, and asked him if he had been informed of the wishes of the English Government on tlie matter; that Bligh thereupon flew hito a passion, said, *^re you to have sucii Hocks of sheep and such herds of cattle as no man ever heard of before V No, sir ! I have beard of your con- cerns, sir; you have got five thousand acres of land in the finest sitiuition in the coimtry, but, by God, you shan't keep it!'* Macartlmr said lie luid received it by order of ^ Rev% J. West.
