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CHAPTER IX.
GOVERNOR DARLING.
Governor Darling anived in New Soath Wales in Dec, 1825, after tonching at Hobart Town and conveying the instructions of the Colonial Office as to the separation of the island government from that of New South Wales, He was a soldier and influenced by niilitary ideas. A presentiment that he would be so influenced seems to have been instinctive with the leaders of the popular party—the emancipists and self-styled patriots. Brisbane had warmed their sympathies by his recent cordiality, and they were in no humour to welcome his supplanter. The incoming Governor was received like the outgoing king:
"As in a theatre the eyes of men
Are idly bent on him that enters next . . .
Wen so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes
Did scowl on Richard. No man cried, 'God save him!'"
Darling bore with him a Royal warrant appointing his Legislative Council, consisting of the chief military officer (Stewart, who had in that capacity administered the affairs of the colony in the brief interval between the departure of Brisbane and the arrival of Darhng); the Chief Justice; Archdeacon Scott; the Colonial Secretary, Mr, Alexander Macleay (who arrived in Jan. 1826, and was to succeed Major Goulburn); John Macarthur; Robert Campbell; and Charles Throsby. The Executive Council was to consist of the same persons, with the exception of the three last-named colonists. It must have been with strange feelings that Macarthur and Campbell were sworn (20t]i Dec. 1B25)
