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tittorney wlioin he had pressed Judge Bent to admit to practice, and who had ineffectually prosecuted Judge Field for slander, was the principal speaker. Maequarie received a tropical shower of compHuieots, The aggrieved attorney- merchant was deputed (with the chairman of the meeting) to carry complaints to England. He did not return ; bat in lH2'd Sh" James Macintosh presented a petition to the House of Commons from him praying that he might be heard hy counsel at the har of the House against two provisions in the New South Wales Judicature Bill then before the House. The prayer of the petition was not granted. The admirers of William Charles Wcntworth might have lioped that the success of Sir J. Macldntosh's resolution would bring their yomig champion into the foreground. After his exploration in the Blue Mountains he had gone to England, hut not before in his youthful ardour he had satirized Colonel i^Iolle hi a manner which D'Arcy Wenfe- worth had to explain for his absent son when the circum- stances came to his own linowledge,***** Unforttniately the domestic associations of the father were not suL'h as to allow the soil to take an unbiased view of the struggle between the emancipist and the free. In the household of Thomas Jefferson, wlio Ijoasted of liis love of freedom, there were slaves of Ins own blood : and though D'Arcy Went- worth was an ofhcial called upon to administer the law, and to maintain a standard of morahty, he associated, and his ^' The alleged jriuiiiooii whu thrown iuto the barracks. Mr. Surgeon Foster, in tlu- iiaine of theofHcers, advt?rtiset1 that a reward of £*JK) would lie given for inforiimtioii leadmg to the <.uiiiiviction of tiie author or aivthorB of a tm)>er *' coutiiiniiig it, false, inalic!iou», and scorriloiis attack on Colonel Molle, botli as Lt -Uoveroor and c'onimaitdiui; officer/* A report was cir- culated that an ofticei- of the 46th wna the author, and the officers were greatly exa-^^Kf rated. Bilge's Reports*, 18±i-^]. Maequarie had early aoticed the capacity of young Wentwortli, He made hhii, in ISII. I»tputy Provost- Marsilial, when he was only^ eighteen years old, and, im the Provost- Marshal waa in Kngland, the duties of the office dtivTdvud entirely iijmu the deputy. Went worth was ever compli- mentary to Maci|uarie. He was one of a eorninittee of twelve persona appointed by a public ineetiug to prepare an address of congratulation to hiuj, and a dinner to connneuiorate his assumption of the government was given in Januiirv 1814- The company was heterogeneous. Mr. tiore, who H'iis jjnpriaoneil "l>y the deposera of BUgli, waa in the chair ; others wlio were nctive in deposing lUigh were in prominent positions.