James Macarthur miscellaneous papers, 1843-1873

Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

James Macarthur miscellaneous papers, 1843-1873
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MACARTHUR PAPERS
VOLUME 32
LETTERS AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS
RELATING TO JAMES MACARTHUR
1843-1873

BY JAMES MACARTHUR – Page

1843 Jy 21- Journey from Montreux to Geneva in 1815 (ms. copy of extract from one of his speeches, from the Australian) – 1

1850 Oct 1 – (Speech on adjourned Transportation Debate in New South Wales Legislative Council, from Mr. Palmer (shorthand writer’s report, ms copy with holograph note signed J.M.) – 8-22

1854 Feb. 9 - Letter to J. Nicholson and other constituents expressing gratification at the contents of their letter and confident in the new Constitution (holograph draft) - 33-5

1858-(Financial statements of Macarthur Family estates 1834-56, with assets of Sir E.M. in comparison with those of this brothers, Jan. 20, 1858; and explanatory memo. to Sept. 30, 1858: original ms.) - 39-54
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THE SAME (Fair copy) - 66-7
1858 Feb. 25 - Statement for the information of Sir E. Macarthur in reference to the family property; (copy, with holograph note) - 56-65

1859 Je 2 - Address to the Constituency of Camden (printed) – 68

1860 Mar. 28 - Will (ms. This was cancelled by another in 1865) - 9-84

1865 Feb. - Heads for an article on past life of J.M., (original ms. Draft) - 150-160

ABOUT JAMES MACARTHUR

1822 - Journey across Cookbundoon R. to Tarlo R. and later to Bathurst - 265

1846 1848 - Receipts for annual subscriptions to Australian Club - 2-3

1851 Jan 18 - Appointed Councillor for District of Camden, Narellan and Picton -5

1851 Feb 6 - Letter from H. M. Oxley commending his action on Constitution question and enclosed letter from Constituents of West Camden Feb. 5, expressing satisfaction with new Constitution - 26-31

1856 Dec. 18 - Account from Norton, Son & Barber for legal services to J.M. as administrator of late Mrs. Mary Isabella Bowman; with receipt - 37

1860 Ap - Address from colonists of N.S.W. on the occasion of his departure from the Colony; (original on vellum) - 85-90

THE SAME (copy with additional signatures).
Another copy with some additional names is in vol. 28 p. 369071 - 85-90

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1860 My 8 - Circular letter from F.L.S. Merewether and E. Reeve inviting subscriptions for a testimonial to J.M. to take the form of a portrait painted in London (printed) – 91

1861-List of Subscribers to Portrait-93-6

1862 - Rules and regulations of the Windham Club Lond. with list of members (printed) - 97-146

1862 Feb. 13
1864 Jan 18 - Annual subscription tickets of the Windham Club - 147-8

1866 - Rules and regulations of the Australian Club with list of members [printed] - 161-185

1866 Je 6 - Writ signed by Sir John Young summoning to J.M. to Legislative Council - 187

1867 Ap 21 – Death - 189-94

1867 Ap 24 -7 - Obituary notice and tributes to the memory of: (extracts from Sydney newspapers) - 189-94

1867 Ap 28 - Funeral Sermon by Rev. H. Tingcombe preached at St. John’s Church, Camden; original ms. THE SAME printed - 195-224

1867 My-Au - letters of condolence to Sir W.M. from:
        J. Norton, My 8 - 225-30
        Rev. W. Sowerby, My 9 – 232-4
        Sir C. Nicholson, Au 25 – 237-40
        Mrs. S. Norman – 241-4

1867 Je-1868 - memorials to J.M.
Oct 1 letters from:
1867 - n.d. - I.M. Chisholm to E. Onslow – 245 -51
Je 19 - Macarthur Memorial Fund – circular - 236
Sept. 6 - T. A. Murray to J. K. Chisholm – 252-4
1868 Au 11 - Sir E. M. to Rev. H. Tingcombe – 258-60
Sept. 28 - Sir W.M. Manning to Tingcombe – 261-4
Oct. 5 - Rev. H. Tingcombe to Sir W.M. – 256-7

1869? - Gone over to the majority (by Sir H. Parkes. Newspaper extract) - 192

1870 Aug 8 - Reminiscences of Thomas Taylor: (ms copy) - 265-6

1871-1876-memorial window
letters from
1871 Je 12 - Sir C. Nicolson to J. K. Chisholm – 267-73
Aug 12 - J. K. Chisholm to A.A.W. Onslow – 274-7
1875 Dec 9 - Sir G. Macleay to Sir W.M. – 278-289
1876 Ap 13

OTHER IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

ASSIGNED SERVANTS – 1850 - 8-22
CAMDEN – Churches – St. Johns – 1871- 6-22
CONVICTS AND CONVICT SYSTEM – N.S.W. – 1850 - 8-22
HUON DE KERILLIAU, G.L.M. -1 807+ - 150
LISGAR, Sir, J. Young, Lord – 1866 - 137-8
McALISTER, L. -1822 - 265
MACARTHUR, Sir, E. – 1858 - 39-67
MACARTHUR, Sir W. - 1815-7 – 151-2
1858 – 39-67
1867 – 225 - 30

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MACARTHUR FAMILY - 1858-39 - 54, 56-65
TARALGA, N.S.W. – 1870 - 265-6
WEST CAMDEN - 1854 - 26-8, 33-5.

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From Australian 21st Jul 1843

Delighted with the valuable information to be gained at Montreau his father determined on a protracted stay, and he (Mr. James Macarthur) was accordingly dispatched alone to Geneva for the baggage the small party had left there. He reached Geneva without difficulty, but, on his way back, having to pass through a portion of the territory occupied by the French, he was taken prisoner by an advanced vidette and brought before the Commanding Officer. On explaining the objects of his mission the gallant officer exclaimed that it would ill accord with the character of Napoleon the rule of the destinies of nations, to oppose the prosecution of such objects, and he (Mr. James Macarthur) was accordingly set at liberty. (Loud cheers) The Battle of Waterloo succeeded, and in the cantonments of the British Army in France, he (Mr. J. M) first became acquainted with the gallant officer who was now sitting opposite to him, Major Smyth. The collection of plants was left under his charge for many weeks, and when, after the lapse of many years in the course of duty, Major Smyth arrived in this colony, he ate of the grapes and drank of the wine, which had been produced from these very cuttings.

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[Receipt from the Secretary Australian Club]

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[Receipt from the Secretary Australian Club]

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[Government Gazette dated Friday 10 August, 1849]

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[Government Gazette dated Friday 10 August, 1849]

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[Government Gazette dated Friday 10 August, 1849]

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[Government Gazette dated Friday 10 August, 1849]

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Adjourned Transportation Debate, Tuesday 1st Oct 1850.
From Mr. Palmer the shorthand writer’s Report.

Mr. James Macarthur. The question before the Council has assumed so complicated a shape, that it is difficult, to see clearly what would be the effect of carrying any one of the resolutions of my Honorable Relative, Mr. Parker, apart from the others. Were it from personal considerations alone, I should be glad to support his proposition, could I do so with consistency, or with any sure of assurance that the whole of that proposition would be carried; but from the course adopted in bringing forward each resolution separately, I can have no such assurance. Indeed, I have a firm conviction that the party which has carried the original Address, in accordance with its expressed predetermination, has also predetermined to throw out all that part of these resolutions which I consider the most essential to maintain. Under these circumstances I am compelled, however unwillingly, to withhold my support from them.

It is my desire not to weary the House with any lengthened observations upon points that have been already so fully discussed; but as the Debate which took place in the House of Lords, on the third reading of the Prison’s Bill, has been more than once referred to in the course of this Discussion, Honorable Members will, I hope, bear with me, whilst I lay before them a short resume of that Debate from the leading Article of the Times of the 17th April last. It is unnecessary to read the whole Article. One of the passages, most in points

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point is as follows. “Were all the prisoners who are annually subjected to secondary punishment at the various quarter sessions and assizes; cast loose upon the English counties after undergoing their various terms of imprisonment, before many years were out a criminal minority would be formed in this country, having a perpetual tendency to enlist into its ranks, the adventurous, the needy, and the young, all who by their sympathies, all who by their necessities, all who by their inexperience and ignorance, are more ready to look for a livelihood to the precarious gains of crime than to the painful efforts of mere industry."

“But it is almost idle to say that, practically, there is no such collision between the ultimate interests of the criminal and the general security of society as is indicated in the argument as it has just been stated. The most nervous philanthropist and the most cold blooded statesman can shake hands upon the policy of removing convicted criminals from our shores. To send a convict abroad to a distant colony, in which after the expiration of a certain number of years he is set free with the certainty of employment before him, and without any of the temptations which prompted him in the first instance to commission of crime, is to make a man of him once more, to give him, as it were, a fresh start in life with all the benefits of past suffering and past experience. What should man without a character do at home, when thousands, nay millions, of our poor countrymen, who have preserved an unblemished name in their little “circles" from the childhood upwards, find it so difficult to procure the means of subsistence through the year for themselves and their little ones? On the

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point at issue between Lord Wodehouse and Lord Monteale, we are rather inclined to think that Lord Monteagle spoke more correctly for past time – Lord Wodehouse for the present. There was a very different idea of expatriation, entertained ten years ago, amongst the humbler classes of English society, from that which obtains at present. Fifteen or even ten years ago, we question if the peasants and lower artisans of this Country thought much otherwise of transportation, then did our ancestors generally in the days of Defoe, when the American plantations furnished the popular idea of forced expatriation. But this is now changed. A Dorsetshire laborer would tell you that if he could get to Australia his expectations would be limited to good wages at first, with the ultimate prospect of rising to be a petty farmer, but that the fulfilment of such an expectation would constitute his Elysium. From this reflection to a consideration of the drawbacks inseparable from a convict’s lot is but a simple step. Of what great moment would be three or four years durance when set against the prospect of comfort for life? It was only the other day – and at Taunton, if we remember right – that Mr. Justice Erle had occasion to remark upon the fact, that two prisoners had actually committed the crimes of which they stood convicted, with the intention of getting conveyed to a distant colony, at the public expense. As a matter of cold blooded calculation, who shall say that these persons were wrong? Very shrewd opinions are getting abroad on this matter. A distant colony, whether or not it be a penal one, is no longer looked upon as an El Dorado, or a hell, but simply as a very desirable neighbourhood. The question is how to get there.

“Now before proceeding further, I would put it to my honorable friend, the Member for Murray, whether the concluding pithy remarks of the Times"

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Times do not supply the best possible answer to the long disquisition, in disparagement of this Colony, from the same Journal, the leading Journal of Europe as he truly termed it, with which he favored us the other night? Sire, I must think that an unfavorable feeling towards this Colony of the nature evinced in the Article rea by my Honorable friend, is created by what I must term the morbid feeling, at times, displayed by ~~Honorable~~ Members of this House; but more especially proceeding from those “Simon" Pures at Public Meetings, and of our Press, who arrogate to themselves a tone of morality so far superior to the world at large, on the subject of Transportation and Exile. The natural consequences in England is enquiry, who and what are these people, who assume such airs of extreme morality? Thus the effect upon the English Public is positively injurious to this Colony. The English Public looks at the question we are now discussing, as one affecting most materially the administration of Criminal justice, and as a great fact in the Home politics of the day, which however much to be lamented must be dealt with not in this morbid spirit, this “Dame Quickly" sort of sensitiveness but in a practical common sense way, looking at the respective & interests of the Parent State & the Colony. And I would ask what have been the demoralizing effects upon this community generally, of the former system of Transportation, notwithstanding the acknowledged defects in the administration of that System? This branch of the subject has been so fully & admirably argued by my Honorable friend, Mr. Wentworth, in his able speech of last night, that he has left nothing more to be said regarding it.

But to return to the Article from the Times which proceeds to say.

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“it is absolutely necessary for the public safety, as we before said, that the criminal population should be removed, and yet a heavy discouragment must be given to the propogation among the labouring population, of such an opinion as the one we have described. Will the Government system of solitary imprisonment, and forced labor upon public works, in the public view, act as a sufficient drawback, and diminish the pleasures of the prospect of a gratuitous passage to Australia, with other advantages? We know not. The experiment is worth trying. Has anything more politic been proposed? If so, by whom, and what is it? It is merely idle to suppose that in such a questions as this, we can ever proceed otherwise, than by approximations; and we will add, that the course, which may be wisest for the year 1850, may not in its details be the most advisable for the year 1870. The development of our colonies, the progress of education at home, must be taken into account, and must modify our practice. The question of secondary punishment probably never will be solved neatly & succinctly like a problem from Euclid, or a proposition of Newton. We must do the best we can, from time to time, and be content."

Such then is the state of the question, in England – such the views put forth by the Times respecting it – views held by distinguished Lawyers and Statesmen of all parties, who have given their attention to the subject and which the Ministry are prepared & and determined to carry out. Now, I would ask, what is the position of this Colony as regards this question? May we not, by offering terms, induce the Home Government so to modify it’s plans, by sending a larger proportion of Emigrants to each Exile, as to carry out even more fully than they now contemplate

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contemplate, “the great principle" of their new system, - the preponderance, I mean of the absolutely free population; thus making it productive of infinitely more important and salutary results to the Parent State, as well as to this Colony, & rendering it a powerful means of peopling this extensive Country with the Anglo Saxon race? May we not thus lessen the influences for evil, and even change them into elements of good, in this new sphere of action?

As an abstract question, merely, no doubt we are ready, one & all, to protest against Transportation in any form, but will such protest be of any practical good effect to this Colony? Will it not rather aggravate & prolong the existence of those very evils, we desire to be ride of at once and for ever, by compelling the continuance of the system now going on in Van Diemen’s Land? The Times proceeds –

“Without going so far as to say that ex-Secretaries have not something of a propensity to scan the propositions of an actual Colonial Secretary with a very keen & critical eye, we must do Lords Stanley & Lyttleton the justice to say that they handled the Government Bill in a spirit of perfect moderation & fairness. They fully admitted the difficulties with which Lord Grey had to contend; they pointed out to him, with marvellous perspicuity and sagacity, the evil consequences of any particular course he might see fit to adopt; they called the attention of the House to the history of past failures, they concluded their addresses with vague admonitions and suggestions, to the effect that the time had come when the Government must be prepared to grapple with

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with the difficulty, in a large & comprehensive spirit. But we do not find that, as the result of their Official experience, either of the noble Lords was prepared to furnish us with a hint towards the solution of a difficulty, which is as deeply lamented as it is fully admitted."

To that in the House of Lords, as well as in this Council, it would appear great practical difficulties have been found to beset this question. But there is this marked distinction, that here, the Minority have, not indeed from official but from local experience, furnished comprehensive & practical hints, towards the solution of these acknowledged difficulties, while the Majority refuse to entertain the question at all.

Having alluded to some of those Party & personal influences, which have been brought to bear so unfavourably upon this debate, I would beg the indulgence of the House, while I say a few words, in reference to some observations which fell from the Honorable & Reverend Member, Dr. Lang, last night. Had it not been for a remark from the Honorable friend the Attorney General, when he rose to call the honble & revd Member to order, I should not have noticed this at all, as I am quite indifferent to personal attacks from such a quarter. My Honorable & learned friend is reported to have said “that one act of rebellion was no justification for another". I am well aware that my honble & learned friend might not mean that which occurred in 1808, was an action of rebellion, but merely to express his opinion, generally, upon the irrelevancy & propriety of the course of observation the Honorable & Reverend Member was pursuing, in referring to the transactions of 1808.

[In margin] Deposition of Governor Bligh

A question of order was here raised & a good deal of discussion took place as to the propriety of Mr MacArthur’s entering upon a line of remark in which Dr. Lang had not been suffered to proceed.

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The Attorney General (Mr. Plunkett) said “that the honorable & Revd Member, Dr. Lang, had last night brought forward what he termed a historical fact, & an act of rebellion. On which he, the Attorney General, had risen to order; observing that it was not right for any Member to justify one questionable act by another act, termed by him, an act of rebellion. That is – the Attorney General’s observation had no reference, therefore, to the applicability of that term to the historical facts of 1808, but was merely an objection, upon general grounds, to the course the honble & Revd members was adopting & if taken in any other sense he had been misunderstood.

The Speaker, have expressed a hope that the discussion would be carried no further.

Mc Macarthur said the explanation of his honble & learned friend, the Attorney General, was quite satisfactory, & that he would only say that on the return of late Father from England, in 1817, with a portion of his family, the Colonial Minister, Earl Bathurst, had directed half the Cabin accommodation, of a large ship to be appropriated free of charge for his use; that a large Grant of Land promised to him prior to 1808 by Lord Camden on the realisation of his assurances & expectations as to the growth of farm work, was confirmed after his return to the Colony; & that he was the first Colonist, not holding office, nominated by the Crown to a seat in the Legislative Council.

Mr. Lamb rose to order, the observations of the Honorable Member for Camden had nothing to do with the question under discussion. If the Honble Member persisted in this course, he, Mr. Lamb, when he rose to reply would read Colonel Johnston’s Court Martial.
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The Speaker hoped the Honorable Member for Camden would discontinue a line of remark which was undoubtedly foreign to the subject under discussion.

Mr. Macarthur. I have said enough, although I could have brought forward much more, to repel the attack which has been made is no unwarrantable a manner. Uninfluenced by the threat, which I utterly despise, of the Honorable Member, Mr. Lamb, but in deference to the Chair & to the wish of the House, I will pursue the subject no further.

I will now, with the permission of the House, advert very briefly to one or two points which have been urged against me personally, during this debate. If I thought them merely personal in their bearing I should not think it requisite to notice them; but as they are put forward to damage the question I am supporting, I will as shortly as possible reply to them.

And first, as to the inconsistency alleged to exist, between my views & conduct in 1838, & the course I am now pursuing, my Honble & learned friend, Mr. Wentworth has shewn that the inconsistency is not on my part, but on that of others who have changed sides on this question; & the extract from the Times, which I have just read, shews the absurdity of expecting men to hold precisely the same views, for long periods of time, on the details of such a question. This latter remark will not, however, avail those, who, having changed sides upon this question, are now opposing us. When the Convict Element greatly preponderated in this Community, & there was ground to fear its obtaining a dangerous ascendancy, they advocated Transportation & Convictism, in their extreme sense. Now that the Convict Element in our social system, as compared with the free, is

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is so reduced as to be powerless for evil, they oppose Transportation, even in the new & mitigated form of Exile, notwithstanding that under the conditions we require, it would be the means of rapidly & greatly increasing the free population, developing the resources & promoting the welfare of the Colony –

Admirable Consistency! –

- But it has further been confidently asserted, upon the authority of the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons in 1838, & upon the authority of a publication of mine, about the same period, that I had strongly urged the entire cessation of Transportation at that time. Now there cannot be a greater perversion of evidence than this. The Report of the Transportation Committee contains a direct reference to the plan proposed by me for continuing Transportation on an altered system, and the second chapter of the publication referred to, contains the very plan proposed by me as alluded to by the Committee of the House of Commons for continuing Transportation on a new footing, doing away, indeed with assignment, which I thought incompatible then & consider to be still more incompatible now, with the altered & advanced state of society in this Colony. The assignment system failed more especially in the later years of it’s existence, because the Government, treating it as a mere labour question, gave way to the pressure from without, assigning convict to new settlers, who from their want of experience & of the means essential for keeping up a proper discipline, could not manage them. This was the error of the later stage of it’s existence. In its early stage there was the radical & fundamental defect of the want of a sufficient body of free people to occupy the fertile lands of the Colony; to become the growers of corn; and the employers & directors of convict labour.

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The Honble Member for Camden was introducing matter into the discussion which had no bearing upon the Amendment before the House. His observations might have been quite admissible from the original motion (to which the Hon. Member had already spoken) but he (Mr. Murray) thought they were now out of order.

Mr. Wentworth would draw the attention of the House to the seventh paragraph of Mr. Parker’s amendment having reference to the necessity of introducing with exiles at least double the number of free emigrants. The remarks the hon. member was addressing to the House had a direct bearing upon that point.

The Speaker was of the opinion that the remarks of the hon. member for Camden were not irrelevant to the question under consideration.

Mr. Macarthur. My honorable & learned friend has anticipated me in what I was about to say. It is quite legitimate for me to address these observations to the House. They are essential to a convict view of the question. But, Sir, I despair of any argument producing an effect on those who seem to have come here with their minds made up to a foregone conclusion, & with a predetermination as to the course they will force the House to adopt by the power of a Majority. (Hear, Hear, from Mr. Lamb). The hon. gentleman cries hear, hear, I hope that hereafter he may have no cause to alter his tone (hear, hear). Sir, the Government of the time to which I before referred, was compelled to make small farmers from that class, who were in no way qualified to occupy that position in the Community. It thus became a fatal, though unavoidable condition of the system of Transportation and Assignment, in the early days of the Colony, that those who had been Convicts becoming Settlers & Masters, were, in some instances of worse character (I am now speaking generally, for I cannot refer to specific cases) but it is undoubted that the Maters were worse in various instances than their assigned servants.

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servants. It is needless that I should enlarge upon the ill consequences of this stage of things. They are obvious upon the surface. And, therefore, it is most essential that means should be taken to guard any new Penal Colony, that may hereafter be established, against the recurrence of such a practice, & to protect the whole Australian Group against the evil influences that would inevitably spring from it.

Sir, the hon. & learned Member, Mr. Nichols, has thought proper to say that my chief object in the course I have taken upon this question, is to beat down the wagers of the laborer. I ask the hon. & learned gentleman, whether he can, in his heart, cast such an imputation upon me? Does he really believe that I am one to deprive the laborer of his hire?

Mr. Nicols. I said the effect of the course, advocated by the hon. member for Camden, would be to beat down the wages of labor, not that the laborer would not receive from him the hire of which he was worthy.

Mr. Macarthur. To take the argument then upon that improved ground, divested of personality. The effect of our proposition, if carried out, would not be to depress the wages of labor below their just level, although it would tend to preserve the equilibrium necessary to be kept up between labour & capital. If the profits of Capital become too low, or cease altogether, from too high a rate of wages, the consequences must eventually fall upon the laboring classes,. True, the Capitalists would be the first

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first to suffer, but if ruined, or driven from the Colony, what would be the position of the laborer? Sir, I have shown on a former occasion, that an excessive rate of wages is injurious to the laborer, & productive of social evils of a grave nature. It would have the further ill effect, if continued, of eating out & annihilating the Capital of the Country, & either driving away the most respectable Colonists, or reducing them to a state of embarrassment which would effectually preclude the application of their knowledge & intelligence, which it is so important should be applied, to the promotion of the general welfare. I am not arguing that there is any nature inferiority of intellect, in the laboring class, but it is a consequence of easy circumstances to give leisure, & to afford opportunities of acquiring that general information & experience as to the conduct of affairs, which the laboring class cannot, except in very rare & extraordinary instances, enjoy. It is besides an essential feature of our plan that the Land revenues of the Colony should be placed at the control & disposal of the local Legislature. Now I would ask honorable members to pause & weigh well what would be the effect of that condition if complied with. Is it not apparent that the Colony is incapable of carrying into execution those public works which all admit to be so essential to the general welfare? Is not your Railway at a stand still? Are not even the roads, constructed in former years, becoming almost impassable? So that there is danger of interruption to that intercourse, essential to an advancing stage of society, & without with civilization cannot continue to exist. Unless by some such plan as we have proposed, how are we to obtain money either for the introduction of

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of Emigrants or for Public Works? And would not those Public Works afford beneficial employment to the laboring class? And yet Si, the honorable Gentleman says I am advocating the course, we desire to see adopted in order to lower the rate of wages. Why should the Home Government send us Emigrants, when they may be conveyed to America, at one third the cost, unless we help them in disposing of their Exiles? (Hear, hear, from Mr. Lamb).

I am not addressing these arguments to the honorable & gallant gentleman. I am too well aware of the purblind view which he takes of this subject. I am incapable, I trust of coming to a decision under the influence of considerations so narrow, & unworthy of this important subject. I address not my observations to any one, whose judgment is so warped, whose reason is so “cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in" by the dwarfish scope of his intellectual vision, as to be incapable of a comprehensive & impartial review of this question. I appeal not that that Honorable gallant Member, who thinks this a fitting subject for a laugh.

Nor can I hope for the support of a majority of this House, although I do believe their calmer judgement will bye & bye, if it does not even now, include them to our proposition. But I do appeal to the good sense & right feeling of the people of this Colony. Are we, I ask them, to fly in the face of the British Government? Are we to tell that Government: “this vast portion of the Empire shall be closed against your great design"? Are we, presuming upon our insignificance, to say to the Imperial Mistress of this hemisphere? (and long may she continue so). Shall we say to our Sovereign? “you shall not here enjoy that highest prerogatory and brightest jewel of your Crown, the Godlike Attribute of Mercy!"

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Sir, I cannot believe when time shall permit of calm reflection, uninfluenced by excitement, & unprejudiced by the delusive statements which have been so widely spread, that such will be the final & deliberate judgment of the Country. But Sir, I do hope & believe, that eventually the principles and objects which we have advocated will prevail, and that this Colony will realize, in the success, the twofold blessing, so beautifully ascribed to Mercy by our great dramatic Poet:

“It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath, it is twice blessed. It blesseth him that gives & and him that takes".

Note: The discovery of gold [indecipherable] out the question of Transportation as the wildest [indecipherable] could scarcely support the sending of Criminals to a gold producing Country, as a punishment.

Pamphlets containing Mr. Wentworth’s arguments & Mr. Plunkett’s speeches on the Transportation question, but the foregoing reply in which causes are a [indecipherable] for the failure of Transportation in its later stages, differing from those which prejudiced the earlier period of its existence.
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Adjourned Debate on Transportation September 1850.

Reply of Jas. Macarthur Esqre.

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Commission from N.S.W. Supreme Court for authorising the marriage if minors.

To: James Macarthur of Camden Park in the County of Camden Esquire

Greeting,

Know you that We confiding in your knowledge integrity and ability have committed unto you full power and authority and We do hereby nominate and appoint you to give consent according to the form prescribed by the Act passed in the second year of Her Majesty’s Reign, for authorising the marriage of Minors without the consent of Parents or Guardians in certain Cases/ to the marriage of Persons under the age of twenty one years having no Parent or Guardian residing in this Colony qualified to consent to such marriage – Provided that you do in every such case, administer the Oath required by the said Act, and make such enquiry as to you shall seem proper concerning

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concerning the state and condition of the Parties seeking to be married; and that you do not give any such consent, where there shall appear to you to be any reasonable and valid objection to the proposed marriage. This commission to you is to remain in force for so long time only as you shall ordinarily be resident at or within twenty miles of Camden Park aforesaid, or until We shall see fit to revoke the same.

Given under our hands and the Seal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales this twenty eighth day of January in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one.

[Signed] [indecipherable] [Stephen?]
[Signed] J. N. Dickinson
[Signed] R. Therry

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[Indecipherable] [Wingecarribbee?]
6th Febr /54

My dear Mr. Macarthur.

I have much pleasure in sending you the enclosed ~~document~~ letter which I hope will satisfy you that in acting as you have done on the constitution question you have not acted contrary to the wishes of your constituency
Jas Macarthur Esq. Mr.C.

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It was not considered necessary to procure the names of every or even nearly all the electors for [indecipherable] are known pretty well that they will follow where they are led and all those who are supposed to have any influence are unanimous in approving of your conduct & were anxious to express it.

The weather

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is very unfavourable for harvest operations which are not quite over yet. It is now almost as cold as early spring.

Believe me to be
Very faithfully yours

[Signed} H. M. Oxley

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To James Macarthur, Esquire M.L.C.
Camden Park Camden

Sir,

As the Bill for conferring a new Constitution in this Colony has now passed the Legislative Council by a large majority and, it may be hoped the agitation which was [indecipherable] by a few unsatisfied democrats has died away, we, the undersigned electors for the Western Division of the County of Camden, consider it due to you to say that the Bill as it as present stands we are perfectly satisfied and that to the Legislative Council and to yourself in particular as our representative we owe a debt of

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of gratitude which will not be easily effaced for the stand which you took in the defence of the real liberties of our country undismayed by the threats and claims of those who would have placed us under a tyranny of the worst description, the tyranny of an uncontrolled popular Assembly.

We are the more anxious thus to advise you of our confidence as many of us were opposed to you on your last Election for the County, but on an occasion like this all minor differences should be laid aside, and it gives us sincere pleasure to express our unanimous approval of your conduct during the discussions which took place on this most important measure, a measure, the good effects of which we shall feel through future ages
that

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that you, Sir, may long enjoy life and health to serve your country in the new and glorious era which is now before her, and under the beneficient reign of our Most Gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria, is the most earnest desire of your most obliged and humble servants.

[Signed]

Geo. T. Rowe
J. [indecipherable] [Corner?]
John Nicholsen, . J.P.
Charles Throsby J.P.
H. M. Oxley J.P.
N. J. Cordeaux J.P.
J. M. Antill J.P.
J. N. Oxley J.P.
Edmond Burke J.P.
John Morrice

[Seal affixed]

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Constitution Bill letter from Constituents and reply
9th Febry 1834

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33
Camden Park 9th February 1834

Gentlemen,

I have this day received the letter you have done me the honor to address to me, on the subject of the Bill to confer a Constitution on New South Wales which was passed in the late session of Council.

The approbation of my Constituents at all times a source of the most lively satisfaction is the more gratifying for the assurances contained in your letter of perfect satisfaction with the Bill, coming as it does from gentlemen so deeply interested in the Measure, and so well qualified, by an enlarged local experience, to judge of its probably workings. Nor must I omit to notice, as especially gratifying, the sentiments you express in reference to the course pursued by the Council, as well as to my own conduct, in the discussion and settlement of so important a measure.

It has been the chief object throughout, of the promotion of the Bill

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Bill to lay the foundation of that rational [indecipherable] which has raised England above all other Countries. We believe that this is more likely to be obtained & perpetuated under the form of Constitution adopted by the Council – a form that has prevailed for centuries in our transatlantic colonies and which assimilates, as closely as circumstances will allow, to the Constitution of England – than by adopting any" countries plan, in support of which nothing better than doubtful things can be urged".

I am most sensible of the kind feeling you are pleased to entertain towards me. My only wish consists in the endeavour to do my duty faithfully. Already is it my happiness to enjoy the reward of your approbation, and in those great and enduring advantages to

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to the Colony, which you so confidently anticipate from our new Constitution, I trust I may be permitted to reap the yet higher reward of your progressive welfare, and that of your children, with the conscienceness that it may have been my good fortune, as your Representative, to contribute in some slight degree, to that welfare and to the good of our Country.

I remain, gentlemen, your obliged and faithful Servant
Jas. Macarthur.

TO:
John Nicholsen, Es. J.P.
Charles Throsby Esq. J.P.
H. M. Oxley Esq J.P.
N. J. Cordeaux Esq. J.P.
J. M. Antill Esq J.P.
J. N. Oxley Esq J.P.
Edmond Burke Esq J.P.
James [indecipherable] [Corner?]Esq
George T. Rowe Esq
John Morrice Esq
[Indecipherable]

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1 Warwick St
31March 1855

Received from William McArthur Esq the sum of Sixty Pounds sterling on [indecipherable] to be repaid in Australia on arrival
£ 60 – James McArthur

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James Macarthur Esq.
To Norton Son & Barker
1836 – To cost of Obtaining letters of administration in your favor as administrator of the Goods of the late Mrs. Isabella Bowman, Court fees etc. etc. £ 10.

Received payment Norton Son & Barker 18th Dec 1856

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Financial Statements, dated January 20, 1858, of the Macarthur family estates under the management of James and William Macarthur, shewing expenditure, receipts, etc., 1834 – 1856, with the assets of Sir Edward Macarthur in comparison with those of his brothers.

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Statement of Expenditure from 1834 to 1854 inclusive

A – Annuities from 1834 to end of 1843 £ 1400.0.0
1/6th of Elizabeth’s £5000 paid Bowman 833.6.8 - £14,833.6.8
Drs. from 1844 to 1831 inclusive
Mrs. Parker £4800 Mrs Macarthur £1200 – 6000.00
Dr. Since 1851 Annuities to Mrs. P paid half by Edward – half by I. [indecipherable] - £20,833.6.8

B – Quit Rents Licences & assessment of Stock 21 years at an average of £60 a year - £1260.0.0
Interest on £10,000 bond from 1838 to 1854 17 years at £700 a year - £11,900.00

C – Dr. Herries & Co. 1842 to 1853 inclusive [indecipherable] etc - £1,200.0.0
Dr. in N.S.W. from 1841 to 1854 14 years £8500 at 10 percent - £12,000.0.0
Exchange on Bills on England - £1,000.0.0
- £12,100.0.0

D – Wages & general Supplies from 1834 to 1843, 10 years at £1800 a year – 18000.0.
Dr from 1844 to 1854 11 years at £2500 – 27,500.0.
Carriage 21 years at £200 a year – 4,200.0.0
Travelling expenses 21 years at £100 a year – 2,100.0.0
Smiths work hurdles hats, drays harness and [indecipherable] 21 years at £300 a year – 6,300.0.0
[indecipherable] expenses £200 [indecipherable – 600.0.0
[indecipherable] 21 years at £20 a year – 420.0.0
[indecipherable] of bounties – 1,000.0.0
Postage 21 years at £20 a year – 420.0.0
-£57,390.0.0
X – 3,150.0.0
60,540.0.0
(Turn over)

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Statement of Expenditure continued

E - Edward from 1834 to 1842 - £7,610.13.6

F – James £5,250 and William £5,250 including household expenses – 21 years at £500 a year - £10,500.0.0

C – Losses –
F. Thompson - £2,625.0.0
Howell (Miller) – 2,000.0.0
Blackell [indecipherable] – 750.0.0
Sundries – 250.0.0- £5,625.0.0

Recapitulation
Annuities – A - £20,833.6.8
Lice fees Quit Rents etc – B – 1,260.0.0
Interest – C – 26,100.0.0
Wages Supplies etc – D – 57,300.0.0
Edward – E – 610.13.6
James £5,250 – William 5,250 – F – 10,500.0.0
Losses - G – 5625.0.0
126,844.6.2
55,625.0.0
This note should be set forth
Where the foregoing sums are estimated I believe them to be much under the actual outlay and consequently the [indecipherable]

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H – Paid to Edward besides the forgoing sum of £7610.13.6 (E)
Balance of his a/c 31 De3c 1851 - £4,413.16.7
On Nangus Sale 4th Oct 1856 – 4,000.0.0
£8,413.16.7

J – Application of £10,000 borrowed in England
Purchase of land at Richlands £2,700.00
Clearing fencing and building at Do 2,300
on account of Edward - £5,000

K Purchase of Belmont £4125
Cottages for Emigrants – 875.
On a/c of J & N in [indecipherable - £5000

L – Losses by J & N not included in joint a/c
Australian including Pitts - £2000.0.0
Balance on Ravensworth a/c – 1500.0.0
[Indecipherable] Sydney Exchange [indecipherable] - £5,500.0.0

L Expenses at Camden Village on Church Inn etc - £2,500.0.0

M – Vinyards, wine house and dairy etc - £1,000.0.0
Defrayed out of Emily’s portion – 3,500.00
[Indecipherable] in the Camden lands

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Statement of Expenditure from 1834 to 1854

17815.7.4
833.6.8
18,648.14.0

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No. 1
Comparative abstract of Camden applied to general a/c - Pyrmont - Rents

Total net amount from Pyrmont & Parramatta from Dec. 1839 to Dec 1857 as per Mr. [indecipherable]’s a/c - - £ 20,448.19.9

Less Reinvestments [indecipherable] - £2063.11.1
Sundrys, [indecipherable] etc. at Pyrmont & Parramatta in payment of [indecipherable] £200.0.0 - £2,263.11.1
[Indecipherable] £18,185.8.3
Balance in [indecipherable] after payment for repairs of Elizabeth [indecipherable] - £16.9.2

1837 June Interest on Drs. – 4.2.6 - £20.11.8
Total from Pyrmont & Parramatta to joint a/c - £18,206.6.4
(1) - £3,02.8.0
(4) - £8,030.0.0
(5.6) - £923.0.0
Amount of Rents from Camden Estate to Jt a/c See Abstract No. 2 - £12,047.8.0
31st Dec 1837

(2) - £ 517.19.4
(3) – 1750.0.0
1835 Dec 31 – Dr. since 1837 - £3,500.0.0 - £5,767.19.4
1/6th of Elizabeth’s £5000 due to J & M by Edward - £833.6.8
£18,648.14.0

Camden - £18,648.14.0
Pyrmont – 18,206.0.4
£44213.8 excess from Camden
20th January 1858 [indecipherable]

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Copy of paper sent Edward Nov. 1837. JM No. 2

Sale of Nangus

Total amount received including Interest on Jenkin’s Bill - £15,042.17.8
Deduct expenses of [indecipherable] and Nangus in 1834 - £2250.0.
James Bourman Comms 400. - £2,650.0.0
£12,329.17.8

1/3rd share of £12,392.17.8 - £4,130.19.3

Paid to Edward’s a/c at Com. Bank the 4th October 1836 - £4000.0.0
Bd due Edward on principle of three equal shares - £130.19.3

But if half the stock go to Edward’s credit, then the Station being J & sale property Edward would be entitled as follows:

15280 sheep at 8/- £6112.0.0
Cattle etc – 2000.0.0
£8112.0.0
Less expenses etc as above – 2,650.0.0
£5462.0.0
½ £5462 - £2,731.0.0
2 years interest at 9pct – 382.7.0
£3113.7.0
Balance less than £4000 the amt paid 4th Oct 1836 - £886.13.0.
£4,000.0.0
Dr. Edward in this [indecipherable] case £886.13.0 in this a/c
A counterpart of this a/c forwarded to Edward in Oct 1836.

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No. 2

Abstract showing amounts received from Sales & Rents of Village allotments & of agriculture lands at Camden applied in final a/c

Village sales as per ledger
£359.0.0 –
220.0.0
135.0.0
60.0.0
110.0.0
60.0.0
80.0.0
105.0.0
110.0.0
100.0.0
60.0.0
46.8.0
150.0.0
60.0.0
25.0.0
45.0.0
132.0.0
110.0.0
41.0.0
44.0.0
30.0.0
25.0.0
85.0.0
60.0.0
150.0.0
125.0.0
65.0.0
100.0.0
60.0.0
125.0.0
£2987.8.0

brought over - £2987.8.0
Mill allotment – 105.0.0
(1) - £3092.8.0
Village Sales Dec 1855 (2) £517.19.4
Agricl land sales Dec 1855 (3) - £1750.0.0

Farm tenants at Camden applied to [indecipherable] a/c
year
1839 - £120.0.0
1840 – 160.0.0
1841 – 200.0.0
1842 – 250.0.0
1843 – 320.0.0
1844 – 480.0.0
1845 – 650.0.0
1846 – 800.0.0
1847 – 850.0.0
1848 – 950.0.0
1849 – 1,000.0.0
1850 – 1,050.0.0
1851 – 1,200.0.0 – (4) £8.0803
Rent of Camden Inn prior to sale – (5) £57.0.0
Other Village rents from 1842 to 31 Dec 1837 – (6) 415.0.0
Farm rents applied to general account since 1837
1852 - £1200
1853 – 1300
1854 – 1000 (7) - £3500.0.0
20th January 1838
J.M.

The sale of the Camden house for £1800 is not included in this Abstract.

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Statement of Expenditure from 1834 to 1854 inclusive

Annuities from 1834 to 1843 - £14,000.0.0

A 1/6 of Elisabeth’s £5000 pd Bowman £833.6.8 £14,833.6.8
From 1844 to 1851 inclusive
Mrs Parker £4800 Mrs Macarthur £1200 – 6000.0.0

NB Since 1851, Annuity to Mrs. Parker paid half by Edward half by J & W McA - £20,833.6.8

B Quit Rents, licences & assessments 21 years at an estimated aver of &60 a year, say - &1,260.0.0

C Interest on &10,000 Bond from 1838 to 1854 17 years at 700 a year - &11,900.0.
Dr. Herries & Co. from 1842 to 1852 including stamps, say - &1,200.0.0

Dr. in N.S. Wales from 1841 to 1854 on &8500 at 10 pct for 14 years - &12,000.0.0
Exchange on Bills on England – 1,000.0.0
&26,100.0.0

D Wages and general supplies from 1834 to 1843 – 10 years at &1800 a year – say - &18,000.0.0
Do Do from 1844 to 1854, 11 years at &2500 a year - &27,500.0.0
Carriage 21 years at &200 a year – 4200.0.0
Travelling expenses 21 years at &100 a year – 2100.0.0
Smiths work, Hurdles, Hats drays, harness, saddlery etc. 21 years at &300 a year – 6300.0.0
Law Expenses &200 printing &200 Advertising &200 – 600
Stationary 21 years at &20 a year – 420.0.0
Immigration excess of cost over bounties & repayments – 1000.0.0
Postage 21 years at &20 a year – 420.0.0
&60,540.0.0

N.B. Where the foregoing sums are estimated I believe them to be set down at considerably less than the actual outlay & consequently disadvantageously as regards J. & W McA’s personal interest in this a/c
J M
Carried over

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Statement of Expenditure continued

E - Edward from 1834 to 1842 - £7,610.13.6

F – James & William £5,250 including household expenses – 21 years from 1834 to 1854 at £500 a year - £10,500.0.0

C – Losses –
F - Thompson - £2,625.0.0
Howell (Miller) – 2,000.0.0
Blackell Shares – 750.0.0
Sundries – 250.0.0- £5,625.0.0

Recapitulation
Annuities – A - £20,833.6.8
Licences Quit Rents etc – B – 1,260.0.0
Interest – C – 26,100.0.0
Wages Supplies etc – D – 60,540.0.0
Edward – E – 7610.13.6
James & William – F – 10,500.0.0
Losses - G – 5625.0.0
£126,844.6.2
5,625.0.0
£132,469.0.2

H - Paid to Edward besides the foregoing sum of £7,610.13.6, Balance of his a/c 31st of Dec. 1851 - £4,413.16.7
On Mangus sale 4th October 1856 – 4,000.0.0
£8,413.16.7

I - Losses by J & W not included in joint a/c losses of £5525
Australian Newspaper including [indecipherable] - £2000.00
Balance on Ravensworth A/c – 7500.0.0
Jenkins Coles, Sydney Exchange & sundries - £2000.0.0
£5500.0.0

No to H – this £8,413.16.7 is not included in the recapitulated amount of £132,469 & is inserted to shew the difficulties J & W have had to contend with
JM
The same observations applies to I £5,500.00

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J – Application of £10,000 borrowed in England
Purchase of land at Richlands - £2,700.0.0
Clearing fencing & building at Do – 2,300.0.0
On account of Edward - £5,000.0.0

K – Purchase of Belmont - £4,125.0.0
Cottages for Emigrents – 875.0.0
On account of J & W at Camden - J & W - £5000.0.0

J - £5000.0.0
K - £5000.0.0 - £10,000.0.0

L – Expenditure at Camden Village on Church & Inn - £2500.0.0

M – Vineyard £250, Winehouse £350, Dairy £400 - £1,000.0.0

Defrayed out of Emily’s portion & secured by settlement on the Camden Lands - £3,500.0.0

The foregoing Statement is the nearest approximation I can make to the Expenditure from 1834 to 1854. I have no data by which I can arrive at the total income, I only know that after living in the most frugal manner, economising to the utmost & endeavouring to turn all things to the best account, William & I have nothing left except the Camden Estate, and the share to which we are entitled of the live stock remaining unsold at Camden and Richlands, & which for some years past have been a source of loss & outlay to us.

James Macarthur.

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Statement of Expenditure from 1834 to 1854
JM
20th January 1858

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No. 1
Financial Statement
Total net amount for Pyrmont & from Decb 1839 as per Mr. Allports a/c - £20,448.19.9.

Less Reinvestments
Flood’s Mortgage - £2063.11.1
Lundy surveying a/c at Pyrmont &Parramatta in payment of allotment - £200.0.0 - £2263.11.1
-£18,185.8.8

Balance in J Mac’s hands after payment for repair of Elizabeth cottage £16.9.2
1857 June 1 interest on dito - £4.26 - £20.11.8
Total from Pyrmont &Parramatta to joint a/c - £18,206.0.4.

Amount of rents to purchase money from Camden Estate to Joint a/c - £12,047.8.0.

31st Decb 1851
1855
Decb 31 – Drs since 1851 – 5,767.19.4
1/6th of Elizabeths £5000 due to J & W by Edward – 833.6.8
£18,648.14.0

Camden - £18,648.14.0
Pyrmont a/c – 18,206.0.4
£442,738 – Excess from Camden

20th January 1858
J.M.

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No. 2

Dividing the £10,000 bond debt in England into halves £5000 having been invested in purchase of lands & improvements at Richhands & like manner at Camden & the £8500 paid the Bank into thirds:

Edwards is entitled to credit for J & W’s half of Bond paid off in England - £5000.0.0

Excess of Camden land payment over Pyrmont & Parramatta - £442.13.8

1/3rd of £8500 paid Bk of Australia by J & W’s 2833.6.8

2 yrs interest on £5000 since 1854 charged to J & W in Edwards A/c 31st Decb 1856 - £500.0.0

4 yrs interest on £2833.6.8 at £141.12.4 a year – 566.9.4

Balance to J & W’s credit in E Mc’s a/c 31st Decb 1856 – 498.15.0 – 4841.4.8
£158,15.4

This is exclusive of sales of horses at Melbourne – of [indecipherable] at Richlands which cannot yet be closed..

J.Mc
21st Jany 1858

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No. 3.

Statement of Nangus sale a/c

15280 sheep sold with Station which was J & W’s exclusive property for 16/- a head - £12240.0.0
Cattle – 2000.0.0
£14,240.0.0

If sold without the Station the sheep & cattle would not have fetched more than half the above - £4120.0.0

Less expenses commission etc. – 2650.0.0
4470.0.0

1/3 of £4,470.0.0
1490.0.0

2 yrs interest 7 pc pa – 208.12.0.
1698.12.0. – J.. Mc’s share

Amount paid by J & W Mc November 1856 - £4000.0.0
-1698.12.0.
In excess - £2301.8.0.

Camden 20th January 1858
J. Mc

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Copy of Statement by James Macarthur for the information of Sir Edward Macarthur in reference to the family property, explaining his own financial position, exertions on behalf of the family interest and the difficulties encountered by his Brother William and himself in looking after those interests.

Feb 25 1858

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During the period from ~~my arrival in~~ our return to NSW at the end of 1817 to ~~that of~~ my going to England in 1828, my expenditure of money was not I am sure £400. From 1828 ~~to 1831 when~~ [indecipherable] a partner with me and after 1831 when I returned to the Colony including passage to & from England, it did not exceed £1200. From 1831 to 1834 £100 a year would more than cover it – say £400. So that £2000 prior to 1834 was all that I had spent. From 1834 to 1854 my portion of the amount of estimated expenditure by Wm & me is I am satisfied fully as much as I have had, independently of house provisions & the use of Horses. The payment from much that was purchased in 1838 was made out of Emily’s money although not for our exclusive use or advantage. These are points to which I should not have asserted but from Edward’s statement as to the small amount drawn by him from the property

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at all events Wm & I can justly urge the same who have been expending mental & bodily energies solely for the benefit of the general concern & with a view to the welfare & honour of the Family as well as the advancement of the Colony without a thought of our own merely personal advantage.

I can truly say that this has been his & my ruling object through life. The wear & tear both have undergone few can now tell nor would I have supposed that I am insensible of many compensating advantages. But had we set up for ourselves in 1834 why should not we as well as so many others have years ago attained an independent & even affluent position. The cause of our difficulties has been the keeping up & carrying on a complicated joint & family property with very insufficient means or aids the burdens, labours & responsibilities thus devolving on us

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& worst of all the unlooked for deterioration of the grazing capabilities of Richlands & the consequent business losses.

I, individually, should have been spared imputations upon my integrity & honour which conscious as I am of their being undeserved are nevertheless painful to hear. Especially when coming from such a quarter & without provocation on my part. Wm knows as well as I the difficulties which rendered the keeping of accounts all but impossible. They never had been kept & it was therefore unwise of me to agree to undertake it. But when the agreement was entered into in 1838 our affairs were in a comparitively speaking simple position to that in which they were immediately afterwards involved ~~in favour~~ by calamitous seasons & the changing condition of the Colony bringing on a train of circumstances which we could neither foresee nor counter.

In 1838 too there was a skilful bookeeper

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here who had promised me to remain & devote himself for at least 5 years to this object. But for some personal squabble we lost the benefit of his services quite unexpectedly immediately after my return, & every effort made afterwards to replace him proved a failure. Had I tried to keep the accounts myself with my want of practice & quickness in such business my whole time would not have sufficed. My best energies found ample scope in the general concerns of the family & in those public affairs which I did not seek, but which I have been brought up to look upon as part of my alloted duty, & which it was the especial wish of our venerated Mother that I should not decline when proposed to me.

But in all this, as well as in my brief & unlucky connection with the public press, I looked to advancing

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the weal of others more than my own I strove to promote Edward’s personal objects by obtaining for him everything which [indecipherable] the further Agency of the Colony in England although we have not sought to cast upon his shoulders any portion of the loss so [indecipherable].

Then as regards the agreement my recollection places that matter in a very different point of view from that assumed by Edward. According to my recollection he had ample time to consider the terms which were fully & repeatedly discussed between him & me & ~~with~~ after the advice of our friend Davidson at length assented to. Wm had insisted on a sine qua non & I very properly – that there should be an equal [indecipherable] of income from whatever sources. The result has shewn that this was the only footing on which we could attempt to carry out the designs

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to the realisation of which our Father had devoted his life. But in requiring this essential condition to the accomplishment of his plans, we did not contemplate that Pyrmont would contribute a larger amount of rents than Camden & although for a time it did do so. Eventually the Camden Estate has ~~contributed~~ adjusted the balance. When in England I expected that the Camden rents & sales of land would at once have furnished a larger amount than Pyrmont & Parramatta nor have we availed ourselves of this clause in the agreement as we might have done for our own individual advantages. Again it is urged by Edward that I write to him when he was in Ireland that the agreement between us was annulled by our interposition in Mrs. Bowman’s affairs. If I have expressed myself

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thus absurdly it could not do away with the condition requiring mutual consent to annul the agreement but what I ought to have written & believed what I believe I did write was that the engagements we had entered into with Mrs. Bowman were apart from our Partnership & could not therefore involve Edward. Also that in giving the Bank security for the debt at first amounting to £12,500 & ultimately to £113,500 ~~£8500~~ of which £8500 was a Partnership liability we had included only the moiety of live stock ~~bequeathed~~ confirmed to us by our Father’s will without reference to the subsequent division contained in our agreement. But the £8500 was looked upon as a Partnership liability & so treated in a correspondence between the Bank myself & Edward in 1848. Since his return to the Colony in 1851 I have always spoken of it to him as a partnership debt as it undoubtedly is & as part of ~~the~~ our joint liabilities

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~~of our joint property~~

I concur fully in the justice of the views expressed by Wm in his letter of 30th January & I see no real difficulty in the settlement of the matter in dispute if each party will but look at the points to be adjusted in a practical yet fair & brotherly feeling & with the desire which I trust is mutual to put an end to jarrings that have arisen out of the circumstances occasioned by a series of calamitous years with unavoidably differing & to some extent imperfect impressions as to some of the complicated matters brought under review & disappointment not unnaturally as to the results – results however which cannot now be prevented or altered & of which each should bear his own portion of good or evil fairly & without seeking to cast undue blame or burthen on others.

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I am reminded by Wm that my voyage to England in 1928 was not for personal objects or agent.

I may also remark that in 1879 or so I could have availed myself of Davidson’s kind offer of a position in his House of Business, Martin, Wm under our Father’s cousin I declined, & that in 1828-9 I went to London in full health & vigour & in the prime of life, the party who, subsequently to my declining it took the position so offered to me, who had retired with a large fortune.

In 1830, too, an offer was made to me while in Europe to invite myself under highly favourable auspices, to pursuits very congenial to my terms, & wh. might have been attended with [indecipherable] far beyond any I could look for in [indecipherable].

In both these instances, I received apart from any financial consideration & kept my part willingly [indecipherable] because I thought it right [indecipherable]

25th Feb 1858
J Macarthur

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List of papers forwarded with this to Edward

Statement of Expenditure from 1834 to 1854 –

Abstracts of Account Nos 1, 2, 3 4.

Copy of Statement & accounts sent to Edward by mail 6th Feb 1858.

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Explanatory memo to accompany accounts to 30th Sept 1858

(1) The balance of £322.6.5 in J & W’s favour & of any further term, incurred for the live Stock remaining unsold at Camden & Richlands, we will reimburse ourselves from that Stock. The surplus after paying such Balance a/c to be divided into thirds & in accordance with the desire expressed in Edwards’ letter of the 25th March last, one third to be paid as from Edward to our niece Isabella Chisholm. Mr. [indecipherable] not being able to sell the horses at Richlands, we have directed him to send them here so that they may be included in Mr. Bart’s sales of the stud here at a suitable time in the early part of 1859 thus from the 31st Decb 1858 our connection with Richlands will have ceased altogether.

(2) The annual expense of the sheep, horses & cattle at this place from January 1835 to 30th Sept 1858 is charged at £500 or £1875 for the whole period. No exact calculation could be made of services by the same persons in different capacities but the amount is less than that incurred at Richlands when there was no sheep & consequently fewer persons employed.

(3) We provided a honest means of support for Quirke, Chapman, Minters & others, so that we have been incurred & shall continue to incur expenses beyond any value derived from their services [indecipherable] £1000 a year so long as they live & choose to stay here.

(4) The sum of £796 for sales of stock, not yet paid. We have carried to account as Cash, and we undertake all risk connected therewith.

Camden Park
30th Sept 1838
J. & WMc

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Accounts from 1st January 1855 to 30th September 1838 forwarded to Edward 11th Decb 1858 per [indecipherable] (Relate to [indecipherable] sent by them – same time)

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Camden Park
2nd June, 1859.

Gentlemen.

Had I received earlier intimation of the intention to invite me to become a Candidate for the representation of Camden in the new House of Assembly, I would have sought to save you the trouble of preparing, and myself the semblance even of discourtesy, in decline the requisition you have done me the honour to address to me.

It will be within the recollection of many of you, Gentlemen, that on the occasion of the last Election, I expressed a strong desire to retire for a time from public life. The reasons which then induced this desire, have in the interval acquired greater force, so that after much and anxious consideration, I can arrive at no other conclusion than that I ought not, now, to become a Member of the House of Assembly.

Nevetheless, Gentlemen, an invitation such as you have been pleased to send me, emanating from so intelligent, numerous, and independent a body of Electors, is a source of satisfaction and pride, because it assures me of your continued approbation, and your adherence, generally, to those public principles on which I have endeavoured to regulate my political conduct. But I cannot be unconscious of my inability – especially during the last two sessions, - to discharge with regularity the duties devolving upon the representative, nor insensible of the grave error I should commit, were I to undertake those duties, at this time, without feeling the power to devote to them my best energies.

However reluctant, therefore, to interrupt, even temporarily, the connexion which has so long, and in a manner so pleasing to me, subsisted between us – a sense of right requires from me that I should not now accept the trust you propose again to confide to my hands. Some Gentleman, with strength and energy to encounter the fatigue, and grapple with the difficulties of Parliamentary life, at this important crises, and with far more ability, though not greater zeal than mine, to serve you, will, I trust, be found to fill that arduous but honorable office.

I now take leave of you, Gentlemen, for a season – possibly at some future time again to devote to you my humble services, should they be thought desirable. And I earnestly trust, that with God’s blessing on your efforts, you and your descendants may be instrumental in maintaining and illustrating, under Institutions adapted to the manners and circumstances of this young country, that loyal, moral, manly, regulated liberty, which distinguishes England among the nations, which we should prize as a sacred inheritance from our Ancestors, and as the only liberty worth possessing – a liberty co-existent with order and right – incapable of existing without them, but which with them, constitutes the essential spirit and vital principle of good government.

In conclusion, permit me to thank you for much courtesy and kindness, and to assure you that although no longer your representative in the Legislature, I shall not cease to identify your interests and welfare with my own.

I remain, Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient Service,
James Macarthur
To the Gentlemen signing the Requisition and the Constituency of Camden.

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[28.3.60. N.B. James Macarthur’s made a fresh will in 1865 which cancelled this – see Vol of Legal papers]

This is the last Will and Testament of one James Macarthur of Camden Park, in the Colony of New South Wales, Esquire.

First I desire that my Funeral may be private, quick and simple, and should I die in this country I wish my remains to be interred in the Family Burial place, at Camden Park. As soon as conveniently may be after my death I direct that all and singular my just debts, funeral and Testamentary expenses may be paid. And subject thereto and to all Trusts contracts and engagements affecting it, I give devise & bequeath all my land and other property, wherever situate and of whatever kind, whether in possession, reversion, remainder or expectancy, to my wife Amelia and my brother Sir William Macarthur, in Trust for the following purposes, namely:

(1) the payment of legacies as under:-

(£1000) One thousand pounds to my nephew James Macarthur Bowman Esquire now living at Korulah Richmond River
(£500) Five hundred Pounds to my nephew William Macarthur Bowman Esquire, now living at Mount Brisbane, Moreton Bay
(£500) Five hundred pounds to my nephew Frederic Macarthur Bowman Esquire now living at Camden Park: and the like sum of (£500) five hundred pounds to my niece Isabella Macarthur Chisholm, the wife of James Kinghorne Chisholm Esquire of Gladswood. And in the event of any of them dying before me, without children, his or her respective legacy to be equally shares among the survivors. Interest at the rate of Five per cent per annum to be payable on such legacies until they shall be paid off.
(2)

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(2) The whole of the residue and remainder of my real & personal Este, of whatever nature and wherever situate, whether in possession reversion, remainder or expectancy (including any interest in and moiety of the Mansion at Camden Park as well as the books, furniture, plate and other appurtenances thereto) I give devise and bequeath to my wife, to be used and enjoyed during her life, and on her death, to my daughter and only child Elizabeth Macarthur with full power to her my said daughter, after she shall have suceeded thereto, to dispose of the same by Will or otherwise as she may think proper. Should my daughter not have married before my death, I confide in the affection and judgment of her mother and Uncle herein before named (the Trustees and Executors of this my Will) as well as in her own good sense from the making such provision and settlements as may be suitable & & requisite on the occasion of her marriage and to do whatever may be desired advisable in Law or in equity to secure her interest and those of her children.

(3) If my brother William shall survive my wife and my daughter and the latter shall leave no child or children, nor make any Testamentary dispositions of the property descending to him under this Will, then and in that case, I direct that the legacies to my three Nephews and my niece herein before named shall be increased to (inclusive of the sum of Two thousand Five hundred Pounds (£2600) already stated) a Total sum of Six thousand pounds (£6000) to be divided amongst them in four equal shares of One thousand five
hundred

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J.M.
Hundred pounds (£1500) to each of them subject to like conditions as to the annual rate of interest therein and as to survivorship as are hereinbefore expressed in reference to the first named legacies of less amount. And subject to the payment of the said legacies of (£6000) Six thousand Pounds, in the event of the death of my wife and my daughter before his death, and the latter leaving no child and making no Will as aforesaid, the whole of the residue of my property shall belong absolutely and I hereby give devise £ bequeath it to my brother William hereinbefore named, to hold & enjoy the same and dispose of it as may think fit.

Lastly I hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said wife Amelia & my said Brother William to be the Trustees and Executors of this Will, and I revoke all former Wills by me at any time made declaring this to be my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I the said James Macarthur have hereunder set my hands this ~~Twenty Eighth~~ day of March in the year of our Lord 1860.

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This is a Codicil to my last Will and Testament bearing date this Twenty Eighth day of March 1860 and which I direct shall be annexed to and deemed part thereof.

Whereas by my said Will it is provided that if my brother William should survive my wife and daughter and the latter should leave no child or children and make no Testamentary disposition of the property to which under my said Will she would be entitled on the death of her Mother, then and in that case, after payment of certain legacies the whole of the residue of my property shall vest absolutely in my said brother and whereas he might possibly not succeed to the said residuary Estate or make no Will devising the same, then or in either of the two later cases, I give devise and bequeath the whole of the said Residue of my property real and personal to the University of Sydney to hold in Trust and apply to the following purposes.

(1) The maintenance of the land so bequeath to the said University of primary

public

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public schools for children of the humbler classes, such schools to be conducted on non sectarian principles and as nearly as may be in accordance with the system called the Irish National or Lord Stanley’s system of Education as carried out in New South Wales and in such situations upon the Estates as may be convenient and necessary for the education of the children residing thereon.

(2) The formation likewise on the Camden Estate whenever it can be prudently and advantageously effected of Educational Establishments of a higher class than the primary schools, in which establishments besides the usual branches of learning the youth of either sex may receive practical training to fit them for the duties of life.

(3) The making adequate provision for scholarships in connexion with the Schools colleges and University’s and the affording of aid towards a well devised system of prizes and rewards for proficiency in science the arts and the various attainments and exercises, bodily as well as mental which are essential to the creation and continuance
of

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of sound National character – not omitting the training of the skilful and combined use of Arms.

I am anxious that those who succeed to the possession of that portion of the Camden Estates which has been derived by me from my revered Parents, should administer it wisely and in such manner as to make it inclusive, as far as may be within prudent and appropriate limits, to the foregoing objects. But I would on no account incite my successors to undue action, nor yet fetter them by restrictions or instructions which altered circumstances may render unsuitable. I desire that what they do should be done carefully, gradually and well, without [indecipherable] upon or encumbering [indecipherable] too much [text obscured]
Should it be permitted (as I trust it will) to my daughter and my lineal descendants through her to continue in the possession of the Estate so transmitted to them, I pray that God’s blessings may descend with it, and that they may be humble Instruments in promoting [text obscured] Country.

Finally, as notwithstanding this my earnest wish and prayer circumstances may happen, rendering it advisable that

J MacA

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part or even the whole of my real estate should be sold, I hereby authorise and empower the Trustees and Executors of this my Will or their legal successors to effect such sale or sales of land as they shall think proper and to do whatever may be necessary for giving Titles to the land so aliened and for the administration and management of all or any of my property Real or Personal.

And I hereby declare my wife and my Brother William to be the Trustees and Executors appointed by me to carry into effect this my last Will & Testament.

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The last Will and Testament of James Macarthur of Camden Park Esquire with Codicil both dated 28th day of March 1860.

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This is a Codicil to my last Will and Testament bearing date this Twenty Eighth day of March 1860 and which I direct shall be annexed to and deemed part thereof. Whereas by my said Will it is provided that if my brother William should survive my wife and daughter and the latter should leave no child or children and make no Testamentary disposition of the property to which under my said Will she would be entitled on the death of her Mother, then & in that case, after payment of certain legacies the whole of the residue of my property shall vest absolutely in my said brother £ whereas he might possibly not succeed to the said residuary Estate or make no Will devising the same, then or in either of the two later cases, I give devise £ bequeath the whole of the said Residue of my property real and personal to the University of Sydney to hold in Trust and apply to the following purposes.

(1) The maintenance of the land so bequeath to the said University of primary public schools for children of the humbler classes, such schools to be conducted on non-sectarian principles & as nearly as may be in accordance with the system called

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called the Irish National or Lord Stanley’s system of Education as carried out in New South Wales and in such situations upon the Estates as may be convenient and necessary for the education of the children residing thereon.

I am anxious that those who succeed to the possession of that portion of the Camden Estates which has been derived by me from my revered Parents,

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should administer it wisely and in such manner as to make it inclusive, as far as may be within prudent and appropriate limits, to the foregoing objects. But I would on no account incite my successors to undue action, nor yet fetter them by restrictions or instructions which altered circumstances may render unsuitable. I desire that what they do should be done carefully, gradually and well, without touching upon or encumbering the property or encumbering the property or absorbing too much of annual income.

Should it be permitted (as I trust it will) to my daughter and my lineal descendants through her to continue in the possession of the Estate so transmitted to them, I pray that God’s blessings may descend with it, and that they may be humble Instruments in promoting the Moral, Social & physical improvement of their Country.

Finally, as notwithstanding this my earnest wish and prayer circumstances may happen, rendering it advisable that part or even the whole of my real estate should be sold, I hereby authorise and empower the Trustees and Executors of this my Will or their legal successors to effect such sale or sales of land as they shall think proper and to do whatever may be necessary

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for giving Titles to the land so aliened and for the administration and management of all or any of my property Real or Personal.

And I hereby declare my wife and my Brother William to be the Trustees and Executors appointed by me to carry into effect this my last Will & Testament. In witness whereof I hereunto subscribe my name, at Camden Park, this 28th day of ~~March 1860~~

Signed by the Testator James Macarthur in the presence of us present at the same time.

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This is the last Will and Testament of one James Macarthur of Camden Park, in the Colony of New South Wales, Esquire.

(1) the payment of legacies as under:-

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(2) The whole of the residue and remainder of my real & personal Este, of whatever nature and wherever situate, whether in possession reversion, remainder or expectancy (including any interest in and moiety of the Mansion at Camden Park as well as the books, furniture, plate and other appurtenances thereto) I give devise and bequeath to my wife, to be used and enjoyed during her life, and on her death, to my daughter and only child Elizabeth Macarthur with full power to her my said daughter, after she shall have succeeded thereto, to dispose of the same by Will or otherwise as she may think proper. Should my daughter not have married before my death, I confide in the affection and judgment of her mother and Uncle herein before named (the Trustees and Executors of this my Will) as well as in her own good sense from the making such provision and settlements as may be suitable & & requisite on the occasion of her marriage and to do whatever may be desired advisable in Law or in equity to secure her interest and those of her children.

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conditions as to the annual rate of interest therein and as to survivorship as are hereinbefore expressed in reference to the first named legacies of less amount. And subject to the payment of the said legacies of (£6000) Six thousand Pounds, in the event of the death of my wife and my daughter before his death, and the latter leaving no child and making no Will as aforesaid, the whole of the residue of my property shall belong absolutely and I hereby give devise £ bequeath it to my brother William hereinbefore named, to hold & enjoy the same and dispose of it as may think fit.

Signed by the said James Macarthur in the presence of us, present at the same time, Camden Park New South Wales.

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James Macarthur Esqre

We the Undersigned colonists of New South Wales desire to convey to you on the occasion of your departure from the Colony the expression of our sincere regard and esteem and of our earnest hopes for the health and happiness of yourself and family during your contemplated voyage to, and sojourn in Europe.

We deem the present a suitable occasion for giving expression to these feelings, and desire to record our sense of the obligations which these Colonies owe to the Family of which you are a Member, and to the example of individual worth and active benevolence evinced by you as a Member of the Legislature, a Magistrate, a Landlord and a promoter of every object calculated to develope the moral and material advancement of this Community.

[Signed by]
Charles Nicholson, Bart D.Ch. – John Hurley M.L.C.
[indecipherable] M.P. - [indecipherable] Thompson
[indecipherable] - John Worley D.C.L. Uni of Sydney
[indecipherable] M.L.C. - [indecipherable] M.L.C.
Henry S. [indecipherable] M.L.C. - [indecipherable]
Lewis A. [indecipherable] - N. R. Piddington, M.L.C.

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[List of Signatures, mainly indecipherable]

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[List of Signatures, mainly indecipherable]

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[List of Signatures, mainly indecipherable]

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James Macarthur Esqre

We deem the present a suitable occasion for giving expression to these feelings, and desire to record our sense of the obligations which these Colonies owe to the Family of which you are a Member, and to the example of individual worth and active benevolence evinced by you as a Member of the Legislature, a Magistrate, a Landlord and a ~~n active~~ promoter of every object calculated to develope the moral and material advancement of this Community.

[Signed]
Robert Allard – John F. Mann
[indecipherable] Martin M.P.
H. N. Allan J.P. – [indecipherable] Thos [indecipherable] - [indecipherable] M.L.A.
E. Butler – [indecipherable] M.L.A.
[indecipherable] - William Wild M.L.A.
[indecipherable] Holden - [indecipherable] Carthy

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[List of Signatures, mainly indecipherable]

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Sir,
At a meeting of the friends of Mr. James Macarthur, it was resolved that steps should be taken to raise a subscription for a Testimonial to be presented to that Gentleman, expressive of the regard and estimation in which he is held by his friends and fellow colonists. It is the wish of the promoters that an adequate sum for the above purpose should be raised by a large number of subscribers, rather than by considerable individual subscriptions.

It is accordingly proposed that the funds raised shall be employed in obtaining Mr. Macarthur’s Portrait by some eminent Artist in London, with a view to its being placed in one of the public buildings of Sydney; and that the subscription be limited to One Guinea, or Two Guineas, - the latter sum entitling each subscriber to a proof impression of a steel engraving, to be executed from the painting.

The following gentlemen have agreed to act on the Committee:-

The Hon. T. A. Murray – James Chisholm, Esq., M.P.
Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart – John Hurley, Esq., M.P.
Clarke Irving, Esq., M.P. – Thomas Barker, Esq.
Sir Daniel Cooper, Knight. – Professor Woolley
Sir W. M. Manning, Knight – W. Lithgow, Esq.
J. H. Plunkett, Esq., M.P., Q.C. – John McLean, Esq.
Arthur Hodgson, Esq., M.P. – The Hon. F.L.S. Merewether, M.L.C.

Mr. Thomas Barker has consent to act as Treasurer, to whom it is requested that all subscriptions may be forwarded. Your co-operation in the proposed object is particularly requested.

Francis L.S. Merewether – Edward Reeve – Honorary Secretaries
Sydney 8th May, 1860

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I have cut this from a letter addressed to “Glenswood" received per [indecipherable] this money. Of course he will not act on it.

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List of Subscribers for a Portrait of Mr. James Macarthur

Allen, The Hon George Esqre. M.L.C.
Allen, The Hon. George W. Esqre. M.L.C.
Allwood, The Revd Canon
Antill J. M. Esqre
Atkinson I. A. Esqre
Badgery Henry Esqre
Barker Thomas Esqre
Berry The Hon Alexander Esqre M.L.C.
Bigge, Messrs (Ipswick))
Bloomfield R. H. Esqre
(2) Bowman and Bigge Messrs.
Bowman William Esqre (Richmond)
Burton The Hon Sir William Westbrook President of the Legislative Council
Campbell Mrs. William W.
Comrie the Hon James Esqre M.L.C.

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Chisholm Andrew Esqre
Chisholm C.K. Esqre
Chisholm James Esqre M.L.A.
Chisholm J. K. Esqre (Gledswood)
Chisholm W. A. Esqre
Church C. W. Esqre
Dear Thomson The Hon Edward Esqre M.L.C.
De Laurel A. Querry Esqre
Docketer the Hon Joseph Esqre ,M.L.C.
Donahoe Mr. A.
Douglass The Hon Henry Grattan Esqre M.L.C.
Eagar Goeffrey Esqre
Fairfax John Esqre
Faithful, The Hon W. P. Esq.re M.L.C.
Faucett Peter Esqre
Fitzgerald The hon R. Esqre
Flood Edward Esqre
Hay, John Esqre

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Hill The Hon George Esqre M.L.C.
Hodgson Arthur Esqre M.L.C.
Holt, Thomas Esqre
Hood The Hon. J. H. Esqre MLC
Hurley John Esqre M.L.A.
Icely Thomas Esqre
Johnson Th Hon Robert MLA
Kemp Charles Esqre
Kinghorne A Esqre
~~Lithgow William Esqre~~
Manning Sir W. M. Kent
Martin James Esqre
Martin J. B. Esqre
Maughan John Esqre
McArthur Alexander Esqre
Merewether The Hon F.L.S. Esqre M.L.C.
Mitchell The Hon James Esqre M.L.C.

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Moggridge Henry Esqre
Mort Thomas Esqre
Murray The Hon T. A. Esqre Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
Nicholson Sir Charles Baronet
Norton The Hon. J. Esqre M.L.C.
O’Brien B. Esqre M.D.
O’Brien Henry Esqre
Osborne P.H. Esqre
O’Sullivan, T. Esqre
Pell Professor
Piddington W.R. Esqre M.L.A.
Plunkett J. H. Esqre M.L.A.
Polding The Most Reverend Archbishop
Powell Mr. James
Purves The Reverend William
Smart T. W. Esqre M.L.A.
Smith Professor
Throsby Mrs.
Throsby O.S. Esqre
Voss H. H. Esqre
Want The Hon R. J. Esqre M.L.C.
Wentworth W.C. Esqre
Williams J. W. Esqre
Wise His Honor Mr. Justice
Wodley The Reverence Professor

[indecipherable] District
Antill – 1
[indecipherable] – 1
Burton – 1
Biffen Mr & Bowman – 4
Chisholm – 5
Hurley – 1
Martin T. B. – 1
[indecipherable] – 1
Throsby – 2
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WINDHAM CLUB
1862

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Rules and Regulations
of the
WINDHAM CLUB,
11, St. James’s Square,
with
A List of the Members
Corrected to the 15th May 1862
London:
W.S. Johnson & Co., 60 St. Martin’s Lane
Charing Cross, W.C.
MDCCCLXII

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Nassau Steam Press, 60 St. Martin’s Lane, Charing Cross WC.

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RULES AND REGULATIONS

Windham Club,
11, St. James’s Square

I. The object of the Windham Club is to secure a convenient and agreeable place of meeting for a Society of Gentlemen, all connected with each other by a common bond of literary or personal acquaintance

II. The Windham Club shall consist of no more than six hundred members.

II Each candidate for admission must be proposed by one member (to whom he must be personally known), and be seconded by another (to whom also he must be personally known). The candidate’s name and residence, and place of business (if any), his rank and profession (if of one),

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and the name of the firm to which he belongs (if any), together with the name of his proposer, be inserted in the “Book of Candidates," in the proposer’s hand-writing; and the name of the seconder shall be written in the seconder’s hand-writing, unless the proposer or seconder be absent from London, in which case it shall suffice that he or they write to the Secretary, requesting him to insert the name, address, and qualification of the candidate in his or their behalf. Any neglect in these particulars will render an election void. No erasure or alteration shall at any time be made by a member in the candidate’s book; but any member wishing to withdraw the name of any candidate proposed by him, or to rectify any error or omission, is to do so by addressing a letter to the Secretary,.

IV. The election of members shall be by ballot. The ballot shall take place when vacancies exist, on Wednesdays, between the hours of four and seven P.M., during the sitting of Parliament; and from

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the first of November to the twenty-second of December, both inclusive. Members elected during the latter period shall pay one-fourth of the Annual Subscription, for the year in which they are elected. No ballot shall be valid, unless twenty members actually vote; and one black ball in ten shall exclude. A list of candidates to be balloted for on each (in no case to exceed ten), with their proposers and seconders, shall be put up in the coffee-room, at least eight days before the ballot, dated and signed by the Secretary, or some other person appointed by the Committee. Members desirous of recommending any candidate, may sign their names in such list.

V. The Secretary or Steward of the Club, or some other person appointed by the Committee, shall remain in the room during the whole time of the ballot, to deliver the balls; the clerk of the kitchen, or some other person appointed by the Committee, shall take down the names of the members who vote; and the Secre-

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tary, or some other person appointed by the Committee, shall, in the presence of at least one member of the Committee, open the boxes at the close of the ballot.

VI. The entrance money shall be twenty-five guineas, besides one guinea to the library fund; and the annual subscription shall be eight pounds.

VII. Each new member shall have his admission notified to him by the Secretary (in duplicate, if abroad); he shall at the same time be furnished with a copy of the Rules of the Club, and required to remit an order to his bankers for the amount of his entrance and subscription.

VIII. As the payment of these sums will entitle a member to enjoy every benefit of the Club, so it will distinctly imply his submission to all the restrictions and penalties contained in these Rules.

IX. No member shall be competent to propose or second a Candidate for admission

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into the Club, neither shall he ballot or vote on any occasion whatever, until he shall have paid his annual subscription; and no newly elected member shall participate in any of the advantages of the Club, until he shall have paid his entrance money and first year’s subscription.

X. Any new member who shall not, in compliance with the preceding rule, have paid the sum therein specified within two months from the date of his admission to the Club, if he be in the United Kingdom, and within twelve months if he be abroad, shall be reported by the Secretary to the Committee, with a view to his name being erased from the list of members, unless he can justify the delay to the satisfaction of the Committee.

XI. The name of every member failing to pay the annual subscription due on the 1st of January shall be placed in the public rooms on the 1st March; and if the subscription be not paid on or before the 1st of April, if the defaulter shall be resi-

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dent in Great Britain or Ireland, or within one month after his return, if he shall have been abroad, he shall cease to be a member of the Club, and his name shall be erased from the books, unless he can justify the delay to the satisfaction of the Committee. Every member who shall have used the Club in any way after the 1st of January shall be liable to the payment of his subscription for the current year.

XII. Any member who may be absent from the United Kingdom during the whole period within which the annual subscription is payable, may, by giving notice in writing to the Secretary of his departure, be considered as a supernumerary member, and be exempted from his subscription during the continuance of such absence. The name of every member who may avail himself of this rule shall be entered in the list of “Supernumerary Members." At his return he shall be admitted to all the privileges of the Club, on paying his subscription for the current year, until a vacancy occurs for his re-admission without ballot;

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but if his wish to rejoin the Club be not expressed to the Secretary within three months after his return to the United Kingdom, he shall no longer be considered a member thereof.

XIII. The vacancy created by a member becoming supernumerary, shall be filled up by ballot.

XIV. All subscriptions shall be paid to Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co., Pall Mall East, in the name of the Trustees.

XV. An annual general meeting of the Club shall be held on the second Tuesday in May, at one o’clock, P.M. An abstract of the accounts of the Club shall be printed for the use of the members at least fourteen days before such meeting; but no member of the Club, except members of the Committee, shall have access to any accounts, minutes, &c., placed in the Secretary’s charge, except during such fourteen days, or by special permission of the Committee.

XVI. The domestic concerns of the Club shall be entrusted to a Committee – consisting of twenty-one members, exclusive

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of the trustees, they being ex officio members of the Committee. One-third of the twenty-one members to retire annually by rotation, and not to be re-eligible for the space of one year.

XVII. The mode of electing members of the Committee, at the annual general meeting, shall be as follows: - Blank lists shall be provided, properly headed, and numbered according to the vacancies to be filled; every member present at the general meeting shall be requested to fill one of the lists with the names of those Gentlemen, being eligible, for whom he wishes to vote. The lists shall be placed in a receiver, under the charge of the Chairman. The meeting shall then appoint two Scrutineers, who shall ascertain and give public notice of the names of those members who have the greatest number of votes. Should any member elected on the Committee decline to serve, the gentleman who has the next largest number of votes shall be declared elected. Those only who have been members of the Club for a period of at least one year shall be eligible for the Committee.

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XVIII. In the event of any vacancies occurring in the Committee after the annual meeting, that Committee shall have the power of filling them up.

XIX. The Committee shall hold a meeting once at least every week, to transact the current business of the Club. Three of the Committee shall form a quorum.

XX. Any infraction of the rules and regulations of the Club shall be taken immediate cognizance of by the Committee.

XXI. There shall be four trustees, in whose names the pecuniary funds of the Club shall be vested, and who shall have the usual powers to adopt such measures, by making insurances, investing money, or otherwise, as may be authorised by the Committee on behalf of the Club.

XXII. Each member shall be allowed to bring two friends, not members, with him into the Strangers’ Room, in which dinner may be ordered by such member

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for himself and friends, at a rate to be regulated by the Committee, it being expressly understood that the bill shall be discharged by the member. Any friends who are invited to dine in the Strangers’ Room shall be permitted, in company with the member who entertains them, to use in the evening such rooms as are appropriated for that purpose.

XXIII. The Club-house shall be opened at Nine, a.m., and closed at One, a.m., from 1st August to the 30th April, and on Sunday night throughout the year. From the 1st May to 31st July, it shall be closed at Two, a.m. Such members, however, as may happen to be actually within the Club are not to be restricted or influenced with respect to their departure by this rule. During Epsom and Ascot races, the Committee shall have the power of ordering the Club-house to be opened at an earlier hour.

XXIV. No stranger shall, at any time, or on any pretence, be permitted to use

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any except the Strangers’ Rooms, and the Back Billiard Room.

XXV. Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers resident in London, may be nominated by the Committee honorary members of the Club during their respective missions; and the Committee shall have the power of admitting as honorary members of the Club, for a period not exceeding two months at a time, such foreigners as shall be properly recommended to them for that purpose. This admission may be renewed as often as may be considered advisable.

XXVI. No servant belonging to the Club-house shall be allowed to receive any money or gratuity from any member or stranger admitted into the Club-house, on pain of instant dismissal; and the member offering or giving such gratuity shall be fined seven guineas, for the use of the Club.

XXVII. No dice or game of hazard shall, on any account, be permitted; nor shall any higher stake than half-a-guinea

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points ever be played for at any game whatever. Any deviation from this rule, upon the same being proved before the Committee, consisting of not less than thirteen members, shall be visited with immediate expulsion.

XXVIII. A library of the most useful works shall be collected, under the direction of a Committee, to be called the Library Committee.

XXIX. No member shall be allowed to bring a dog into the Club-house.

XXX. All complaints concerning dinners, &c., are to be made in the book kept for that purpose.

XXXI. The conduct of a servant shall in no instance be made a matter of personal reprimand by any member; but all complaints against servants shall be made by letter to the Committee, signed by the member complaining.

XXXII. All members are to pay their bills for every expense they incur in the

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Club before they leave the house, the servants having positive orders not to open accounts with any individual.

XXXIII. It is considered the duty of the Committee in case any circumstances should occur likely to endanger the welfare or good order of the Club, to call a general meeting, giving fourteen days’ notice; and in the event of its being voted at that meeting, by ballot of two-thirds of the persons present, that the name of any member or members be removed from the Club, the subscriptions of such member or members for the current year shall be returned, and he or they shall cease to belong to the Club.

XXXIV. The Committee may at their discretion call a general meeting of the Club at any time during the sitting of Parliament, giving not less than seven days’ public notice, and specifying the object, to which alone the discussion shall be confined; the decision of a majority of such meeting shall be

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final, provided there shall be thirty members present; but if there be less than thirty, their decision must be unanimous. The Committee shall also call a general meeting of the Club subject to the preceding restrictions, on the written requisition of twenty members.

XXXV. No new rule or alteration of an original rule shall ever be made without the sanction of the annual, or of an extraordinary general meeting consisting of at least thirty members. If at any such annual or extraordinary meeting there be less than thirty present, their decision must be unanimous to effect any change. It shall be necessary in all cases, that fourteen days’ notice be given of the proposed new rule or alteration of an original rule, previous to the day of meeting.

XXXVI. Two auditors shall be elected at the annual general meeting, who shall examine and audit the accounts of the past year, one month before the next annual meeting.

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COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT

James Hill, Esq.
Right Hon. Sir Lawrence Peel
Sir Jn. James Walsham, Bart – Trustees

1. C.R. Fitzgerald, Es.
2. C. R. Bigge, Esq.
4. F. M. Lewin, Esq.
5. Wm. Taprell, Esq.
6. Jas. Irwin, Esq.
7 Edward Hacking, Esq.
8. Edward Crawshay, Esq.
9. Robt. Jas. Baker, Esq.
10. G. J. Graystone Reid, Esq.
11. J. H. Allen, Esq.
12. Jonathan Miles, Esq.
13. J. R. Quain, Esq.
14. Sir Joshua Rowe, C.B.
15. Wm. Hy. Griffiths, Esq.
16. Wm. Nunez Heysham, Esq.
17. Chas. A. Barclay, Esq.
18. Capt. Chas. T. Hyde.
19. Vincent S. Lean, Esq.
20. Wm. Sumner Smith, Esq.
21. Russell, Jas. Kerr, Esq.
E. C. Stevens, Secretary

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LIST OF MEMBERS

*** It is particularly requested that any Errata in the subjoined List of Members may be communicated to the Secretary.
O.M. signifies original member.

Year of Election
1859 – Abdy, Sir William, Bart.
1852 – Alexander, Nathl, C. Esq.
1859 – Alexander, Wm. Jas., Esq.
1861 – Alexander, Jno. Esq.
1839 – Allen, John H., Esq.
1857 – Allsopp, Henry, Esq.
1842 – Alston, W. Vere, Esq.
1851 – Ames, George A., Esq.
1844 – Anderson, Hugh, Esq.
1861 – Applewhaite, Ed. Thornhill, Esq.
1844 – Archer, Matthew Thomas, Esq.
1838 – Arkwright, Alfred, Esq.
1847 – Arkwright, Loftus Wigram, Esq.
1859 – Arthur, Jno, Raynor, Esq.
1849 – Ashton, Samuel, Esq.
1861 – Ashton, Capt. James
B 2

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20.

Year of Election
1857 – Bagehot, Walter, Esq.
1860 – Bailey, Chas. F., Esq.
1861 – Bailey, Sir Jos. Russell, Bart.
1859 – Baker, Robt. Jas., Esq.
1828 – Ball, J.B., Esq.
1851 - Ball, William St. James, Esq.
1859 – Barclay, Chas. Arthur, Esq.
1859 – Barclay, Robt., Esq.
1861 – Barker, W. Ponsonby, Esq.
1860 – Barlow, Edmund, Esq.
1830 – Bateman, Thomas Osborne, Esq.
1843 – Batten, Herbert Butler, Esq.
1859 – Battye, Richard, Esq.
1855 – Beaumont, John Augustus, Esq.
1855 – Bell, Chas. Wm., Esq.
1857 - Bell, Jno. Robert, Esq.
1849 – Bellhouse, Wainwright, Esq.
1855 – Bentley, Rev. Peter George
1831 – Berens, Henry Hulse, Esq.
1846 – Berkley, James Jno., Esq.
1843 – Bigge, Charles Richard, Esq.
1860 – Blackett, Montague, Esq.
1841 – Blagrave, John Henry, Esq.

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Year of Election
1861 – Blair, Wm. E., Esq.
1861 – Blencowe, Jno. Prescott, Esq.
1851 – Booth, Sir Williamson, Bart.
1855 – Booth, Charles, Esq.
1848 – Bowen, James William, Esq.
1856 – Bowen, Anderson, Esq.
1857 – Bowen, Chas. Andrew, Esq.
1843 – Bowyer, Henry A., Esq.
1829 – Brackenbury, J. M., Esq.
1862 – Bradshaw, John, Esq.
1861 – Brand, Andrew Adam, Esq.
1862 – Bridson, Capt. F. Ridgway
1847 – Bright, Jos., Esq.
1851 – Bristowe, Stephenson S., Esq.
1844 – Broderip, William F., Esq.
1860 – Brodrick, Henry, Esq.
1860 – Bromley, Thos., Esq.
1848 – Brooke, Sir James
1861 – Broun, James, Esq.
1843 – Brown, Hy. Edwards, Esq.
1859 – Brown, Wm., Esq.
1862 – Bruce, Gainsford, Esq.
1859 – Bullen, Jno. Tatchell, Esq.
1861 – Bundock, Alexr. Fredk., Esq.
1844 – Burges, Rev. Frank

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Year of Election
1854 – Burke, Thos. H., Esq.
1839 – Brumester, Charles, Esq.
1858 – Barnaby, Sir Wm. Edw., Bart.
1856 – Burnett, Newell,1859 – Burnett, Sir Jas. Horn, Bart.
1844 – Burstall, Edwaard, Esq.
1862 – Burton, R.H. Lingen, Esq.
1851 – Bury, Henry, Esq.
1856 – Busk, Stephen, Esq.

C.
1857 – Caddell, Robert, Esq.
1855 – Campbell, Righ Hon. Lord
1856 – Campbell, Hon. Dudley
1850 – Capel, James, Esq.
1859 – Carrera, Charles L., Esq.
1856 – Cartwright, Henry, Esq.
1840 – Carver, Rev. William J.
1847 – Cattley, William Esdaile, Esq.
1852 – Cazenove, Henry, Esq.
1861 – Cazenove, Frederick, Esq.
1860 - Challis, Jno. Henry, Esq.
1854 – Chaplin, Jno. Worthy, Esq., V.C.
1842 – Clagett, Horatio, Esq.

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Year of Election
1852 – Clarke, Charles, Esq.
1854 – Clarke, Thos. Dydenham, Esq.
1861 – Clarke, Sir R. Bowcher, C.B.
1829 – Clayton, Lieut-Gen. Sir Wm. Robert, Bt
1849 – Clifford, Hy. Wm., Esq.
1851 – Cochrane, L.D., Esq.
1855 – Collings, Mauger Smith, Esq.
1846 – Collison, George Brown, Esq.
1843 – Cooke, Williams, Esq.
1845 – Cooke, Rev. James, Esq.
1859 – Cooke – Major Edwin A. Esq.
1846 – Cooke, Henry, Esq.
1851 – Cooke, Jno. George Esq.
1860 – Cookson, Wm. Isaac, Esq.
1848 – Cooper, Rev. W. H.
1849 – Cooper, F.J., Esq.
1860 – Corballis, Edwd. C., Esq.
1862 – Courage, Henry, Esq.
1851 – Cowan, Richard, Esq.
1862 – Cox, Capt Talbot Ashley
1850 – Coxon, Alfred, Esq.
1853 – Crawley, Richard, Esq.
1847 – Crawshay, Edwd., Esq.
1857 – Creed, H. Herries, Esq.
1842 – Crespigny, C.C., Esq.

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Year of Election
1853 – Cross, Rev. Jn. Edward
1862 – Crowe, Alexander, Esq.
1851 – Cunliffe, Henry, Esq.
1859 – Currie, William F., Esq.
1837 – Curteis, Herbert Mascall, Esq.

1838 – Dalbiac, William W., Esq.
1856 – Danielle, Thos. Averill, Esq.
1862 – Darbishire, Geo. Stanley, Esq.
1853 – D’Arcy, Capt Robt. Jas
1851 – Davenport, William, Esq.
1833 – Davey, Richard, Esq., M.P.
1843 – Davies, Thomas, Esq.
1853 – Davies, Henry, Esq.
1848 – Davison, John R., Esq.
1859 – Davison, Jno., Esq.
1856 – Dawson, Frederick, Esq.
1860 – Deane, Charles March, Esq.
1860 – Dearden, Jas. Griffish, Esq.
O.M. - Delafield, William, Esq.
1861 – De Robeck, Gowran, Esq.
1846 – Devaux, Alex, Esq.
1851 – Dillon, Jno. Henry, Esq.+

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Year of Election
1836 – Dobree, Bonamy, Esq.
1860 – Doherty, Jno., Esq.
1846 – Donovan, Geo., Esq.
1852 – Douglas, Henry, Esq.
1859 – Douglas, Edward O., Esq.
1836 – Draz, J.S. Sawbridge Erle, Esq., M.P.
1833 – Drew, Edwaard Simcoe, Esq.
1847 - Druce, Alexander, Esq.
1855 – Drummond, Edward, Esq.
1853 – Duffield, Chas. P., Esq.
1859 – Duleep Singh, H.H. the Maharajah.
1856 – Durant, Captain George C.S.
1855 – Dymes, Daniel David, Esq.

1854 – Eccles, William, Esq.
1860 – Eccles, Jno. Wm., Esq.
1853 – Edwards, Henry, Esq.
1860 – Edwards, Geo. Thos., Esq.
1853 – English, Oxley, Esq.
1842 – Entwisle, John, Esq.
1860 – Essington, William Essington, Esq.
1842 – Evans, Alexander, Esq.
1847 – Evans, Omwell Lloyd, Esq.
1856 – Evelyn, Capt. Chas. Fras.
1844 – Ewart, George Goodwin, Esq.

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26
Year of Election

F
1845 – Farie, Robert, Esq.
1858 – Fardell, Thos. George., Esq.
1841 – Fawcett, John, Esq.
1860 – Fenwick, George, Esq.
1859 – Fenwick, Chas. Richard, Esq.
1860 – Fenwick, Nicholas Alexr., Esq.
1860 – Ferguson, John, Esq.
1846 – Field, Barclay, Esq.
1839 – Fitzgerald, Frederick, Esq.
1854 – Fitzgerald, Chas. R., Esq.
1837 – Fletcher, John P., Esq.
1842 – Fletcher, J. Dunnington, Esq.
1854 – Fletcher, Rev. James
1858 – Floyer, Rev. Chas.
1840 – Follett, Robert B. E. Esq.
1841 – Forman, W. H., Esq.
1859 – Foster, Capt. James
1860 – Foster, William Orme, Esq., M.P.
1837 – Fowle, Frederick G. Esq.
1839 – Fowler, Marshall, Esq.
1844 – Fox, George, Esq.
1853 – Franks, John, Esq.
O.M. – Fullarton, Gavin, Esq.

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Year of Election

G
1860 – Gairdner, Gordon, Esq.
1829 – Galton, Hubert J.B. Esq.
1848 – Gamble, Geo. Spencer. Esq.
1860 – Garden, Alexander, Esq.
1862 – Garden, Jno. Lewis Esq.
1851 – Gaskell, Alexander, Esq.
1858 – Geale, Hamilton, Esq.
1862 – George, F. Seymour, Esq.
1830 – Gibbs, William, Esq.
1836 – Gibbs, George, Esq.
1858 – Gibson, Revd. Matthew
1846 – Gifford, Hon Edward Scott
1835 – Gist, William, Esq.
1861 – Gladstone, Wm. Kenrick, Esq.
1856 – Glyn, Sidney Carr, Esq.
1861 – Godfrey, Thos. S., Esq.
1841 – Godwin, Henry M., Esq.
1852 – Goodenough, William Stephen M., Esq.
1835 – Goodford, Henry, Esq.
1845 – Gordon, Captain John
1847 – Gordon, J. Duff, Esq.
1848 – Gordon, John Taylor, Esq.
1852 – Gordon, James Richard, Esq.

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Year of Election
1856 – Gordon, Geo. Alex., Esq.
1856 – Gordon, John, Esq.
1858 – Gordon, Juan Jos., Esq.
1848 – Grant, Captain John
1856 - Grant, Chas. T.C., Esq.
1848 – Gregson, B. Padgett, Esq.
1829 – Griffith, C. Darby, Esq., M.P.
1853 – Griffiths, W. H., Esq.
1832 – Grimston, H.E., Esq.
O.M. – Gurney, Hudson, Esq.
1855 – Gurney, John Henry, Esq., M.P.

H
1852 – Hacking, Edward, Esq.
1840 – Hale, Bernard, Esq.
1840 – Hamilton, Captain John
1856 – Hampton, Vivian, Esq.
1850 – Hanbury, Osgood, Esq.
1859 – Hanbury, Archibald, Esq.
1850 – Hankey, Arthur, Esq.
1859 – Hanning, James, Esq.
1846 – Hardy, John P., Esq.
1846 – Hare, Sir Thomas, Bart.
1838 – Hargreaves, John, Esq.

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29
Year of Election
1860 – Hargreaves, John, Junior, Esq.
1833 – Harman, B., Esq.
1853 – Harper, Edward, Esq.
1859 – Hart, John, Esq.
1846 – Hartley, John B., Esq.
1853 – Hawkes, J. Blundell, Esq.
1836 – Hayward, James, Esq.
1857 – Heard, Henry Burnley, Esq.
1855 – Heath, Henry Burnley, Esq.
1860 – Heberden, Wm. Buller, Esq.
1851 – Hemming, Walter C., Esq.
1842 - Henderson, Tghomas Wingate, Esq.
1856 – Henley, Hy, Cornish, Esq.
1829 – Henry,Thomas, Esq.
1852 – Heysham, William Nunez, Esq.
1853 – Hicks, Geo. H.T., Esq.
1857 – Hicks, Rev. W. H.
1835 – Hill, James, Esq.
1850 – Hilton, Edward J., Esq.
1847 – Hinde, Samuel H., Esq.
1855 – Hitchings, Richard Neville, Esq.
1830 – Hoare, Henry A., Esq.
1839 – Hodgson, Maj.-Gen. J. Studholme
1860 – Hodgson, Rev. Henry Wm.
1861 – Hodgson, Arthur, Esq.

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30
Year of Election
1861 – Hole, Jno. B., Esq.
1846 – Holford, Henry S., Esq.
1857 – Holford, Arthur, Esq.
1856 – Holgate, Wyndham, Esq.
1861 – Holland, Frederick, Esq.
1836 – Holloway, Horatio F. K., Esq.
1847 – Holmes, Henry William, Esq.
1851 – Honywood, Robt., Esq.
1855 – Hornby, John, Esq.
1857 – Hornby, William Henry, Esq., M.P.
1858 – Hornby, Chas. E., Esq.
1854 – Hughes, Henry, Esq.
1860 – Hunt, Wm. Yale, Esq.
1848 – Huntsman, Benjamin, Esq.
1853 – Hurst, Edward N., Esq.
1837 – Hutchinson, Hon. Richard Hely
1856 – Hyde, Captain Charles Tunstal

I.
O.M. – Irving, John, Esq.
1841 – Irwin, James, Esq.
1854 – Iver, Archibald, Esq.
1855 – Iveson, L., Esq.

J.
1861 – James, Francis Lanford, Esq.
1844 – Janson, Edward, Esq.

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31
Year of Election
1850 – Jenkins, Henry, Esq.
1860 – Johnston, D. Graham, Esq.
1854 – Johnstone, Hugh E., Esq.
1830 – Jones, Captain John
1861 – Jones-Parry, T.P., Esq.
1859 – Jones, Chas. Jn., Esq.

K
1856 – Kay, William, Esq.
1853 – Kemp, Jno., Esq.
1853 – Kennedy, Lord David
1834 – Kenrick, William, Esq.
1857 – Kerr, Russell James, Esq.
1851 – Kerrich, Henry Walker, Esq.
1849 – King, William Joseph, Esq.
1852 – Kitson, Major George
1850 – Klockmann, Adolphus, Esq.
1861 – Knox, Andre B., Esq.

L
1849 – Lambert, Henry Thomas, Esq.
1860 – Lampson, Henry, Esq.
1861 – Lancaster, Benjamin, Esq.
1849 – La Terriere, F. de Sales, Esq.

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32
Year of Election
1850 – La Terriere, William, Esq.
1842 – Law, William, Esq.
1856 – Lawley, Wm. S., Esq.
1851 – Lawrence, Nathaniel Tertius, Esq.
1861 – Lawrie, Charles, Esq.
1845 – Lawson, Jonathan Wise, Esq.
1853 – Layton, Norman, Esq.
1850 – Leach, John, Esq.
1857 – Leahy, Francis R., Esq.
1861 – Lean, Vincent Stuckey, Esq.
1835 – Lee, Sir George P.
1856 – Leigh, Henry Blundell, Esq.
1856 – Leigh, John Gerard Esq.
1858 – Leigh, Thos., Esq.
1860 – Lempriere, Harry Reid, Esq.
1847 – Leslie, William, Esq.
1829 – Leven and Melville, Earl of
1831 – Lewin, Frederick Mortimer, Esq.
1841 – Ley, Henry, Esq.
1853 – Little, George, Esq.
1837 – Llewellin, Thomas, Esq.
1833 – Lloyd, Jno. Chas., Esq.
1860 – Lloyd, Horace, Esq.
1860 – Lloyd, F. Watson, Esq.

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Year of Election
1843 – Lowndes, Jno. J., Esq.
1848 – Lowndes, Captain James
1855 – Lyne, Richard B., Esq.

M
1837 – MacArthur, Jas., Esq.
1855 – McChlery, Henry, Esq.
1855 – McCulloch, Alexr., Esq.
1860 – Macdonald, Reginald Somerled, Esq.
1861 – MacDonnell, John, Esq.
1854 – Macgregor, Alexr., Esq.
1858 – MacGregor, Alexr. Donald, Esq.
1859 – Mackay, Thos. Hy., Esq.
1853 – Mackenzie, Colin Jno., Esq.
1838 – M’Keand, William, Esq.
1848 – Malcolm, Sir John, Bart.
1861 – Mallock, John, Esq.
1858 – Mangles, Jas. Hy., Esq.
1861 – Mangles, Fredk. Scott, Esq.
1832 – Martin, James, Esq., M.P.
1836 – Martin, Richd. Biddulph, Esq.
1845 – Martyn, Andrew, Esq.
1851 – Massey, Francis E., Esq.
1861 – Matthews, Henry, Esq.
1856 – Maund, John, Esq.

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34
Year of Election
1859 – Maxwsell, Hon. Marmaduke C.
1851 – May, Arthur Algernon, Esq.
1837 – Melvil, Robert, Esq.
1862 – Merivale, Fredk., Esq.
1841 – Miles, John W., Esq.
1861 – Miller, Edward, Esq.
1830 – Milligan, James, Esq.
1839 – Milne, Alexander George, Esq.
1843 – Milne, Alfred, Esq.
1856 – Mogg, Jno. Rees, Esq.
1862 – Moncrieff, William, Esq.
1845 – Moore, Samuel, Esq.
1836 – Morrsell, James, Esq.
1852 – Morris, Philip, Esq.
1857 – Morton, Hy. T., Esq.
1858 – Mounsey, Ewart S., Esq.
1861 – Mullings, Capt. Arthur R.
1844 – Mylne, Robert William, Esq.

N
1850 – Neale, William, Esq.

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35
Year of Election
1842 – Nelthorpe, James Tudor, Esq.
1844 – Nesbitt, Alexander, Esq.
1854 – Nevett, Wm., Esq.
1853 – Nevill, Wm. Henry, Esq.
1841 – Nicholson, Robert, Esq.
1854 – Nix, Jno. Hennings, Esq.
1860 – Norris, Henry C., Esq.
1860 – North, Wm. Richard, Esq.
1837 – Norton, Hon. G. C.
1846 – Novelli, Augustus H., Esq.
1830 – Nugent, Walter, Esq.
1837 – Nugent, H. F., Esq.
1853 – Nunn, Wm. Henry, Esq.

O.
1853 – Oliver, James, Esq.
1844 – O’Neill, Colonel Henry Arthur
1845 – Openshaw, Robert, Esq.
1856 – Overton, George, Esq.
1850 – Owsen, Hugh, Darby, Esq.

P.
1862 – Packe, William, Esq.
1839 – Palmer, Charles John, Esq.
1851 – Palmer, Charles Mark, Esq.

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Year of Election.
1854 – Pannel, Rev. John
1850 – Parker, James, Esq.
1861 – Parker, Home Jno., Esq.
1842 – Parratt, George F., Esq.
1858 – Partridge, W. Robinson, Esq.
O.M. – Patry, James, Esq.
1836 – Paulet, Sir Henry C., Bart
1838 – Pearce, John, Esq.
1860 – Pearse, Robt. Chas. Thos., Esq.
1859 – Pearson, Fras. Fenwick, Esq.
1830 – Peel Rt. Hon. Sir Lawrence
1860 – Pepys, Hon. Fredk.
1850 – Perceval, Hy. Spencer, Esq.
1845 – Peters, William, Esq.
1852 – Petre, Hon. Arthur C.
1851 – Petre, Hon. Arthur Co.
1851 – Phelps, Charles, Esq.
1840 – Phibbs, Owen, Esq.
1850 – Phillips, Jno. Wm., Esq.
1856 – Phillips, Silvanus, Esq.
1853 – Picton, John W., M.D.
1853 – Plummer, Stephen, Esq.
1854 – Polhill, Geo., Esq.
1847 – Pounsett, Rothwell, Esq.
1857 – Praed, Chas. T., Esq.

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37
Year of Election
1862 – Pringle, George, Esq.
1861 – Prowse, Geo. J. Wm, Esq.
1856 – Putnam, Jno. Millidge, Esq.
1847 – Pye, Charles H., Esq.

Q.
1847 – Quain, John Richard, Esq.

R.
1857 – Ramsay, Captain Beville
1857 – Ramsay, Edward, Esq.
1856 – Ramsden, Robt. Geo., Esq.
1857– Ranken, W. Bayne, Esq.
1858 – Ranking, Harvey, V
1859 – Raymond, Jno., Esq.
1861 – Redfern, W., Esq.
1851 – Reid, G. J. Graystone, Esq.
1860 – Reid, David, Esq.
1852 – Rennie, George Banks, Esq.
1854 – Rennie, Wm., Esq.
1835 – Rhodes, William, Esq.
1841 – Richards, Alfred Bate, Esq.
1861 – Richardson, Thos. R., Esq.
1836 – Riddell, Francis, Esq.

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38
Year of Election
1844 – Riddell, Edward, V
1850 – Riddell, Geo. Hutton, V
1857 – Ridge, Thos., V
1852 – Rintoul, Captain Robert
1853 – Roberts, Brownlow Worsley, Esq.
1856 – Roberts, Llewellin Lloyd, Esq.
1837 – Rodwell, Hunter, Esq., Q.C.
1847 – Rougemont, John F., Esq.
1837 – Rowe, Sir Joshua, C.B.
1860 – Royds, Edmund Molyneux, Esq.
1850 – Rucker, Wm. Diedrich, Esq.
1850 – Rucker, Sigismund, Esq.
1861 – Rudge, Edward, Esq.
1851 – Russell, Jno. Esq.
1860 – Rutland, Frederick, Esq.

1844 – Sanction, Philip, Esq.
1862 – Sandham, Major Henry
1862 – Saunders, Chas., Esq.
1860 – Sawbridge, Capt. Robert. Cooper.
1862 – Scovell, Augustus Charles, Esq.
1862 – Scurfield, Geo. Jno., Esq.
1850 – Sealy, Henry, Esq.
1860 – Shand, Alexr. Innes, Esq.
1839 – Shank, James, Esq.

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39
Year of Election
1853 – Sheil, James, Esq.
1850 – Shepherd, Wm., Esq.
1859 – Shepherd, Chas. Forbes, Esq.
1853 – Sier, Rev. Thomas, D.C.L.
1856 – Sidebottom, Alfred K.,, Esq.
1848 – Silveropt, Henry, Esq.
1849 – Simpson, Jno., Esq.
1857 – Simpson, Joseph, Esq.
1858 – Simpson, Thos. Geo., Esq.
1843 – Sims, Frank, Esq.
1852 – Singleton, Henry Sydenham, Esq.
1848 – Skene, Moncrieff, Esq.
1859 – Skipper, Lieut.-Col. Edward
1838 – Smith, C.H., Esq.
1838 – Smith, Samuel George, Esq.
1839 – Smith, Montague, E., Esq., Q.C., M.P.
1842 – Smith, John Henry, Esq.
1848 – Smith, William Sumner, Esq.
1850 – James Hicks, Esq.
1853 – Smith, James Scott, Esq.
1956 – Smith, Oswald Augustus, Esq.
1856 – Smith, Edward, Esq.
1856 – Smyth, Sir J. H. Greville, Bart.
1861 – Snaith, Henry, Esq.
1854 – Snow, Edmund N., Esq.
1837 – Snowden, Henry, Esq.

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Year of Election
1837 – Sowerby, George, Esq.
1848 – Speir, Thomas, Esq.
1829 – Spry, Sir Samuel
1833 – Squire, Frederick, Esq.
1857 – Staunton, Hy. Charlton, Esq.
1854 – Stead, Alexr., Esq.
1853 – Steadman, Robert F., Esq.
1853 – Sterling, Edwd. C., Esq.
1862 – Sterling, Jno, Barton, Esq.
1845 – Stevens, Henry, Esq.
1847 – Steward, W. McAdam, Esq.
1861 – Stibbert, frederick, Esq.
1838 – Stirling, John, Esq.
1842 – Stratford, Hugh S., Esq.
1858 – Strickland, Walter, Esq.
1854 – Sutherland, Geo. Moubray, Esq.
1857 – Sutherland Walker, Evan C., Esq.
1860 – Sykes, Daniel, Esq.

T.
1860 – Taddy, Rev. Jno.
1844 – Tangueray, Aveling, Esq.
1856 – Tanqueray, Chas., Esq.
1857 – Tangueray, Jno. Samuel, Esq.
1837 – Taprell, William, Esq.
1848 – Taylor, Thomas John Domville, Esq.

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Year of Election
1853 – Taylor, Robert, Esq.
1860 – Taylor, Jas. Arthur, Esq.
1839 – Thomas, Thomas Edward, Esq.
1849 – Thompson, Henry, M.D.
1838 – Todd, Joseph, Esq.
1852 – Tombs, Edward, Esq.
1852 – Tomlin, Geo T., Esq.
1856 – Tonge, Captain Augustus Henry
1862 – Toogood, Fredk. Baruch, Esq.
1858 – Tothill, Frandis, Esq.
1862 – Tottie, Jno. Wm., Esq.
1835 – Townsend, Rev. S. T.
1860 – Trant, Dominick H., Esq.
1860 – Tregonwell, John, Esq.
1829 – Trimleston, Lord
1859 – Tritton, Vincent b., Esq.
1854 – Twining, Samuel H., Esq.
1857 – Tyler, Captain St. Vincent

U. – V.
1862 – Unwin, William, Esq.
O.M. – Ure, Masterton, Esq.
1846 – Vance, John, Esq., M.P.
1853 – Vance, William, Esq.
1846 – Vane, Right Hon. the Earl

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Year of Election
1861 – Vansittart, Coleraine, Esq.
1861 – Venner, Capt. Fras. J. S.
1840 – Vernon, Captain B. H.

W.
1859 – Waddilove, Cyrus, Esq.
1836 – Walker, S. G., Esq.
1844 – Walker, William, Esq.
1862 – Walker, Alfred O., Esq.
1861 – Walpole, Vice-Admiral William, R.N.
1836 – Walsham, Sir John J., Bart.
1855 – Walters, Robert, Esq.
1861 – Warry, Thos., Esq.
1846 – Waterhouse, S., Esq.
O.M. – Waters, E.T., Esq.
1836 – Waters, T. Methold, Esq.
1854 – Watson, Peter M., Esq.
1850 – Way, Arthur Edwin, Esq., M.P.
1858 – Way, b. H. Walpole, Esq.
1859 – Webster, Christr. Maling, Esq.
1857 – Weldon, Wm. Hy., Esq.
1856 – West, Wm. Cornwallis, Esq.
1850 – Weston, Plowden C. J., Esq.
1959 – Wezele, Count M. G. de
1846 – Whieldon, George, Esq.
1847 – Whieldon, Arthur E., Esq.

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Year of Election

1842 – White, William, Esq.
1847 – White, Charles, junr., Esq.
1852 – White, Henry, Esq.
1859 – White, Robt. Holmes, Esq.
1851 – Whitehurst, Edward Capel, Esq.
1836 – Whittaker, Major J. A.
1859 – Wicksted, Geo. Edmund, Esq.
1848 – Wiglesworth, T. W., Esq.
1856 – Wilkes, James, Esq.
1848 – Willes, J., Esq.
1835 – Williams, William, Esq.
1859 - Williams, Fredk. Martin, Esq.
1860 – Willis, Henry, Esq.
1834 – Winnington, Captain Henry J.
1847 – Wood, George, Esq.
1851 – Wood, Edmund Heysham, Esq.
1839 – Wright, Stephen, Esq.
1852 – Wright, John Field, Esq.

1829 – Yarborough, R. C., Esq.
1857 – Yorke, Jos. Augustus, Esq.
1834 – Young, Sir Henry E. Fox

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Supernumerary Members,

Aubertin, Jno. Jas., Esq.

Baker, S. W.,, Esq.
Bayley, Charles Jno., Esq.
Bell, Joshua P., Esq.
Blomfield, C. J., Esq.
Buschek, Chas, Esq.

Carver, Wm. Jas.,, Esq.
Chaplin, Alfred, Esq.
Chaplin, E. St. Pierre, Esq.
Christian, Geo., Esq.

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Dalrymple, Geo. Elphinstone, Esq.
Davidson, Gilbert, Esq.
Doering, Frederick, Esq.
Dowdeswell, Geo. Fras.,, Esq.
Drummond, R. Hay, Esq.
Dunlop, A.G., Esq.

Elliott, Chas. Fras., Esq.
Emerson, Ambrose, Esq.

Fawcett, Ralph, Esq.

Gordon, William F., Esq.
Gore, John, Esq.
Graham, Robert, Esq.
Grant, Alexander, Esq.
Gregory, J. A., Esq.

Hackett, Charles Prendergast, Esq.
Halkett, Lieut. Peter A.

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Hibbert, Arthur, Esq.
Holligan, J.R., Esq.

Jackson, Capt. Hamilton
Johnston, Lieut.-Col John

Lance, Hy, P., Esq.
Latimer, Geo., Esq.
Lempriere, Capt. A. R.
Lloyd, James John, Esq.
Loch, Jno. Chas., Esq.

MacArthur, Sir William
Mantell, John, Esq.
Minet, J. L., V
Murray, William Scott, Esq.

Palliser, John, Esq.
Parish, Henry, Esq.

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Parker, Samuel, Esq.,
Pelly, Major Lewis
Pollard, Edward H., Esq.
Purdie, J. Nelson, Esq.

Roope, C., Esq.

Strangways, Hy. B.T., Esq.
Surtees, Villiers, Esq.

Watts, Thos. D. K., Esq.
Were, George, Esq.
Williams, Joshua Strange, Esq.

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The Windham Club
Annual Subscription Ticket 1862
Of James Macarthur Esq
For the Trustees
E. C. Stevens, Secretary
12th Feb 1862

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The Windham Club
Annual Subscription Ticket 1864
Of James Macarthur Esq
For the Trustees
E. C. Stevens, Secretary
18 Jan 1864

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(c/- this with an article in Ill Syd. News, March 16, 1865, pp 4-5 which closely resembles it)

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Feb 1865
Life of James Macarthur by himself written in Feb. 1866.

James Macarthur – third son of the late John Macarthur Esquire of Camden, the founder of the Australian Wool Trade.

The subject of this article was born at Parramatta about the end of 1781, $ received the first rudiments of education under the parental roof. Monsieur Huon de Kerilleau, a kind hearted and accomplished gentleman of Britanny, who expatriated by the French Revolution came to New South Wales as a soldier in the ranks, acted as Tutor in Mr. Macarthur’s family. In 1809 James & his younger brother, now Sir William Macarthur, sailed with their Father for England. The following year both were placed at Grove Hall Academy, [indecipherable]. Dr. James Lindsay, the Master of this well known school, had previously educated their two older brothers. He was a Clergyman of the Presbyterian Faith & for many years the respected Minister of the Monkwell Street Chapel. As a School Master he strove to impose amongst his boys, a tone of honourable and gentlemanlike feelings. Dr. Lindsay

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has more than once been confounded with a popular Unitarian Preacher of the same name.

In the Spring of 1815, Mr. Macarthur Senior, being desirous of collecting information on vine culture & other objects of rural economy, suited to the climate of this Colony, took his two sons James & William with him to the Continent. They arrived at Paris, at the time of Napoleon’s escape from Elba, and saw him several times during their stay in that metropolis.

Travelling leisurely & without molestation to Geneva, a route which brought them into constant familiar intercourse with the French Army then concentrating around Paris, they established themselves until the end of the summer in the Canton de Vaud at the Chatelard, near Clarens. Here they were in the midst of vineyards & they had the further advantage of deriving valuable information from Mr. Dufour, an intelligent small proprietor, then preparing to return as soon as Peace should be restored, to the United States where he had passed several years of his former life & had found a Vineyard, at [indecipherable] Vevay, in the

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Ohio river. The autumn & winter months were passed at Vivay, [Switzerland] where they witnessed the operations of the vintage on a considerable scale & had besides the opportunity of good masters & agreeable society.

In February 1816 they returned to Geneva thence proceeded along the Rhone to Cette & Marseille visiting the places of most interest, the Vineyards, Olive & mulberry grounds & adding not a little to their collection of grape vines, olives, figs, & other valuable plants.

These were conveyed in a light Swiss Chas-a-bane, drawn by a single horse, which also carried their luggage & had room for themselves & a servant, in case of need, though the greater part of the journey was performed on foot, which gave better opportunity of seeing the husbandry & character of the country.

Their homeward route was through Avignon, Lyons Nevers & Fontainblue to Paris, which they found in the military occupation of the Allied armies, the English contingent being on duty during their stay in the French metropolis.

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The chas-a-bane & horse were made over by Mr. Macarthur to his eldest son, the present Sir Edward Macarthur K.C.B. then only a Subaltern Officer in the 39th Reg. – though he had served throughout the Peninsular & Canadian campaigns, & purchased both his

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~~his commission~~. The 39th ~~under Colonel Lindsay~~ in which Regt. Mr. Macarthur’s eldest son, was then a subaltern (now Sir Edward Macarthur K.C.B) were in quarters around Arras. Our Travellers spent several days there. The horse & char-a-banc were transferred to Lieut. Macarthur and for a few days the collection of grape vines & plants were taken charge of by Major Smyth, a fact noticed in 1843 at a public dinner at Parramatta at which Major Smyth was present & partook of wine ~~made~~ the produce of those grape vines.

After a stay of about a year in London, the Secretary of State for the Colonies desired that Mr. Macarthur should be provided with ample accommodation on board the “Lord Eldon" for himself and family together with space on deck for his collection of plants and all the tonnage he required. They arrived at Sydney in September 1817.

From that time till 1828 I was occupied in attending to the general management of my Father’s affairs, in the duties of the Magistracy, to which I was appointed with my brother & the late Mr. Harrington there under the designation of the Camden Bench forming the first Court of Petty Sessions established in the Cow Pasture or Camden District.

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In 1824 ~~Mr. James Macarthur he~~ I was nominated Senior Member of the Colonial Committee of shareholders of the Constitution Agricultural Company, a Committee appointed by the London Board of Directors, to advise the Agents & exercise a general control over the administration of the Company’s affairs. Circumstances arose required personal communication with the Director in England, upon the state of these affairs in the Colony & the expediency of a total change of management. ~~Mr. Macarthur~~ brings about a visit to England ~~in the early part of~~ early in 1828 this duty [indecipherable] upon me I had the good fortune to be very instrumental in recommending to the Directors the appointment of Sir Edward Parry as Commissioner of the company with full powers, the local Commissioner being thus relieved from an onerous duty, and the company’s affairs placed on a simple & and more efficient footing. While in London I was examined by a Board of Inquiry into matters of Colonial expenditure from Imperial Funds, of which the Earl of St. James, then Lord [indecipherable] & the late Sir Willoughby Gordon were active members.

I was also a constant attendant of the Houses of Parliament to which I had the advantage of easy access, and was present at nearly all the great Debates on the Catholic Relief Bill.

I visited Dresden, Weimar, carefully examining the most celebrated merino flocks of Germany and several days at Paris towards the close of the Revolution of July 1830 by the deposition of Charles 10th & the accession of Louis Phillippe to the Throne. ~~He returned to New South Wales in March 1831.~~ During this visit to Europe

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I was so fortunate as to form an acquaintance with many able and distinguished men. I saw Paris under the [indecipherable] Revolution, & enjoyed ample opportunities of increasing my knowledge of men & things. I returned to this Colony in March 1837 and had soon occasion to take an active part of the public meetings on the subject of the disposal & administration of the Crown Lands, which were held at Parramatta towards the close of that year & ~~early in 1832~~ the beginning of 1832, acting in conjunction with J. W. Wentworth, Dr. Wardell and other leading Colonists. The appointment of Sir Richard Bourke to the Government of the Colony, and the views expressed by that talented ruler put an end to further agitation of the Land question at that time.

Well would it have been for the Colony if the Home Government had adopted the views of Sir Richard Bourke, instead of passing their Land Legislation & regulations ~~on this vital question~~ upon the Wakefield theory of a sufficient price & the imaginary concentration of population which has impeded actual settlement & led to the worst evils of the squatting system. I may here notice that ~~Mr. J. Macarthur~~ I declined to join the Pastoral association in 1843 although I strenuously opposed Sir George Gipps’ ill timed attempts to exact increased payment from the Squatting Interests.

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In April 1834 ~~Mr. Macarthur Senior~~ my Father died at Camden Park when he was interred in a spot selected by himself ~~private cemetery of his own selection near attached to the churchyard~~ included as a private cemetery attached to St. John’s Church Camden. The sudden & unexpected death, in April 1837 of his second son John after attaining independence, and a position at the London Chancery Bar, which would soon have led to distinction, caused a shock to my Father from which he never rallied and I have no doubt hastened the termination of his days.

In 1836 ~~Mr. John Macarthur~~ I again went to England & took charge of Petitions to the Sovereign & House of Commons, which [indecipherable] upon the whole question of Transportation, as well as that of voluntary emigration, and the steps advisable before establishing a Representative Assembly in the Colony. These Petitions were presented by Sir George Greg, the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies ~~who undertook their presentation~~ after full oral as well as written explanation from me of the objects which the Petitioners had in view. [indecipherable] The Volume “N.S.Wales its present state and future prospects" was [indecipherable] in support of these Petitions & I was examined at great length by Sir William Molesworth’s Committee on Transportation & although I also attempted, in conjunction with the Late Mr. Charles Buller & with the able assistance of Mr. Francis Barlow, Political Private Secretary to Lord Lyndhurst framed a Constitution for the Colony based upon the principle of double election where it prevails in Norway, & which it was thought by several distinguished

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Statesmen would suit these Colonies. After frequent & careful discussion the attempt was given up & I ~~Mr. J. Macarthur~~ gave it as ~~his~~ my opinion that it would be taken as a step towards representative institutions to open ~~should be opened~~ to the public and to increase the number of members so by to admit distinguished men of various opinions & to form a fair representation of the colony.

In 1838 he I was married to Miss Stone, the daughter of the late Henry Stone Esquire of Lombard Street and embarked for New South Wales when ~~they~~ we arrived in March 1839.

In the following year he I became a member of the Legislative Council. As a mark of approbation of my conduct in that capacity a silver breakfast service & salver was presented to ~~him~~ subscribed for chiefly by ~~the~~ residents of Sydney & Parramatta & presented ~~to him~~ by the Major of Sydney Mr. Broughton in the part of the subscribers. When by a change in the Constitution the Legislative Council was extended by two thirds of the members being elected & one third nominated, ~~Mr. M~~ I was invited by a numerous & influential body of the Electors of Cumberland to stand for that County. This invitation I accepted. He My success appeared certain but shortly before this polling day a strong reaction was excited against me on the ground of ~~his~~ my [indecipherable] support having been given to Mr. R. Therry who was elected for Camden departing Mr.

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Mr. Charles Cowper. This reactionary movement was in a great degree excited by the ultra Protestant party who wished to punish ~~Mr Macarthur~~ me for supporting a Roman Catholic, which ~~the Wentworth party~~ Mr. Wentworth’s supporters took umbridge at ~~his~~ my support of a [indecipherable]. Mr. Cowper was elected by a large majority & ~~Mr. Macarthur thrown out~~ I was thrown out.

Sir George Gipps offered ~~Mr. M.~~ me a nominee seat which ~~was~~ I at once courteously but firmly declined on the ground that after rejection by a popular Constituency I could not hold it satisfactorily to ~~himself~~ myself or with advantage to the public ~~after rejection by a popular Constituency~~. The Cumberland election was foundation of the salutary effect of awakening [indecipherable] of the public mind to the danger of exciting sectarian factions & prejudices for electioneering purposes. Mr. J. Macarthur did not again enter the Legislative Council till 1848 when he was elected for the County of Cumberland, including Illawarra, without opposition. In 1837 he again sat for Camden. In March 1856 elected to the [indecipherable] Assembly West Camden. The Article in [indecipherable] newspapers in May or June 1856 [indecipherable] of [indecipherable] of Elected Members. In January 1856 was appointed a Member of the Interim Executive Council & held seat till new Election consequent

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alteration of the Electoral Act.

In June 1859 declined to stand – in a letter of 2nd June 1859 to the Constituency of West Camden.

In April 1860 embarked for England in Herald of [indecipherable] & 17th April containing [indecipherable] & leading paragraph.

Extracted from Empire of May or June 1856 above referred to:

“Mr. M. is an advocate for Free Trade, is a warm supporter of Religious freedom & of the [indecipherable] [national?] system of Education.

Speaks with clarity & reason & few pretensions to [indecipherable]. His language is uniformly good, & his manner is frequently charactistically strong [indecipherable].
Private character honourably distinguished for practical beneficence. To his numerous tenantry a considerate & a considerable & respected landlord. One of the best employees amongst our Country proprietors.

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[Cover page of the Rules and Regulations of the Australia Club]

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[Pages 168-181 not transcribed]
Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Australian Club, Instituted 1833.

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Patrons:

His Excellency The Right Hon. Sir John Young, Bart., K.C.B., G.C.M.G.,
Governor-in-Chief of New South Wales, &c., &c.

President:
The Honorable E. Deas Thomson, C.B.

Vice-Presidents:
The Honble. James Mitchell
*Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson.

Trustees:
The Honble. Sir William Montague Manning.
J. B. Darvall, Esq., Q.C., M.L.A.
Edward Broadhurst, Esq., Q.C.
H. G. Alleyne, Esq.
Christopher Rolleston, Esq.

Secretary:
Robert Anderson, Esq.

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Members of the Committee

Henry C. Dangar, Esq.
Capt. Wray Finch.
James, C. Cox, Esq. M.D.
Robert Graham, Esq.
The Honble. J. B. Watt.
The Honble William Walker
The Hon. Edward D. Ogilvie.
R. G. Massie, Esq.
Capt. J. Burn.
F. C. Griffiths, Esq.
P. Osborne, Esq.
H. Maclean, Esq.
John de V. Lamb, Esq.
E. Wyld, Esq.
The Honble. R. Johnson

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Members’ Names

Those members whose names are marked with a * are on the Supernumerary List.

*Allan, H.E.A., Esq.
Allen, George, The Hon.
Allen, George Wigram, Esq.
Alleyne, H. G., Esq., M.D.
Alloway, G. H., Esq.
Andrew, Thomas, Esq.
Armitage, Hednry, Esq.
*Armitage, J.T., Esq.
Austin, Henry, Esq.

*Bagster, Henry M., Esq.
*Balfour, J. O., Esq.
*Balfour, John, Esq.
Barker, Thomas, Esq.
*Bassett, W. F., Esq.
*Bayley, Lyttleton H., Esq.
Beckham, Edgar, Esq.
Bedford, S.P., Esq.
*Bell, Joshua P., Esq.
Bettington, James Brindley, Esq.
Billyard, W. W. Esq.
Binny, John, Esq.
*Black, W. J., Esq.
Blaxland, John, The Hon.
Blaxland, Charles, Esq.
Bligh, James William, Esq.
Bloomfield, Richard Henry, Esq.

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*Bloxsome, Oswald, Esq.
*Bloxsome, Oswald, Esq., Junr.
*Bonar, Andrew, Esq.
Boucher, John, Esq.
*Boulton, E.B., Esq.
Bowman, Robt., Esq., M.D.
Bowman, George, Esq.
*Boyd, William, Esq.
Boyd, Sprott, Esq., MN.D.
Bradley, H.B., Esq.
Bradley, William, Esq.
Brenan, John O’Neill,
Broadhurst, Edward, Esq.
*Browne, H. H., Esq.
*Brown, John, V
*Brown Richard, Esq.
Buchanan, Benjamin, Esq.
Bundock, W. C. Esq.
*Bundock, A. F., Esq.
Burn, Captain J.
Busby, Alexander, Esq.
Busby, William, Esq.

*Campbell, William R., Esq.
Campbell, William, Esq.
Campbell, David H. Esq.
*Challis, J. H. Esq.
Cheeke, Alfred, Esq.
Chisholm, James, The Hon.
Chisholm, W. John, Esq.
Christie, Major W. H.
*Clarke, Robert Nalder, Esq.
Clarke, Walter, Esq
Clements J. Finlator, Esq.
Cornish, E. B., Esq.
Cox, Edward, Esq.
Cox, E. K. Cox, Esq.
Cox, James C., Esq., M.D.
*Crawford, J. C. Esq.
*Croft, John, Esq.

Dangar, H. C., Esq.
*Daniel, A. C. Esq.
Darley, Fred. M., Esq.

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Darvall, J. B., The Hon.
*Davidson, Gilbert, Esq.
Davidson, W. R., Esq.
Deffell, G. H., Esq.
*De Salis, W. T., Esq.
*Denison, Alfed E. Esq.
*Dillon, John Moore, Esq.
*Dobie, John, Esq., R.N.
Docker, Joseph, The Hon.
*Donaldson, Sir Stuart A.
*Douglas, E. O. Esq.
Downes, J. F., Esq.
Dulhunty, L.V., Esq.
Dumaresq, Captain William
*Dumaresq, Augustus C. Fitzroy, Esq.
Dumaresq, William Alexander, Esq.
Dun, Capt. P. H.
*Durbin, John H. Scott, Esq.

*Ebden, C. H., Esq.
Ebsworth, Frederick, Esq.
Eldred, W. H., Esq.
*Eliott, Gibert, Esq.
Elyard, William, Esq.

Faithfull, W. P. Esq.
*Falconer, James John, Esq.
Fanning, Major
*Fanning, William, Esq.
Faucett, Peter, Esq.
Finch, C. W., Esq.
*Fletcher, William, Esq.
Forbes, David, Esq.
Forbes, George, Esq.
*Foster, William, Esq.
*Foster, Frederick A. C., Esq.
Francis, Henry R., Esq.

*Galloway, John James, Esq.
*Gammie, George, Esq.
Gennys, J. H., Esq.
*Gilchrist, John, Esq.
Gilchrist, W. O., Esq.
Goldfinch, John, Esq.
Gordon, Hugh, Esq.
*Gore, Augustus, Esq.

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*Graham, James E., Esq.
Graham, Robert, Esq.
*Green, C. H., Esq.
*Griffiths, George Neville, Esq.

*Hamilton, Captain, R.N.
*Hamilton, Edward, Esq.
*Harrington, T. C., Esq.
Hawkins, Thomas Jarman, Esq.
Hay, John, The Hon.
Hebden, George, Esq.
Hely, Hovendon, Esq.
Henderson, James, Esq.
*Hodgson, Arthur, Esq.
Holden, G. K., Esq.
*Hogue, Arthur, Esq.
Holt, Thomas, Esq.
*Hood, T. Hood, Esq.
*Hood, Alexr. Charles, Esq.
*Hughes, Henry, Esq.
*Hurry, Arthur, Esq.

Icely, Thomas, Esq.
Icely, T. Rothery, Esq.
Icely, Charles, Esq.
Isaacs, R. M. Esq.

*Jackson, J. A., Esq.
Jenkins. R. L., Esq.
Johnson, Robert, The Hon.
Johnson, James W., Esq.
*Jones, Thomas, Esq.

*Kennedy, H. H., Esq.
*King, W. E., Esq.
King, P. G., Esq.
*Kitson, Edwd. B., Esq.
Knapp, Francis H., Esq.

Labatt, Hugh, Esq.
Lamb, John De Villiers, Esq.
Lambe, Frederick Charles, Esq.
Lang, G. S., Esq.
*Larnach, Donald, Esq.
Lauret, Augustus G. de, Esq.

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Lawry, Thomas, Esq.
*Leslie, Patrick, Esq.
*Leslie, Walter, Esq.
*Lethbridge, Robert, Captain, R.N.
Long, W. A., Esq.
Loughnan, H. N., Esq.
Lloyd, Charles William, Esq.
*Lloyd, Thomas, Esq.
LLoyd, J. C., Esq.
Lloyd, E. H., The Hon.
Lynch, Robert Blosse, Esq.

Macarthur, James, Esq.
Macarthur, Sir William,
M’Cabe, F. P., Esq.
*MacCormick, J. F., Esq.
Macfarlane, John, The Hon.
*Machenry, Capt. J.
*Mackintosh, Robert, Esq.
Mackintosh, J. Nepean, Esq.
Mackellar, Alexander, Esq.
*Mackenzie, Sir William, Bart.
*Mackenzie, Colin J., Esq.
*Mackenzie, R. R. Esq.
*Mackenzie, Sir Evan, Bart.
*Maclean, Captain J.
Maclean, John Donald, Esq.
Maclean, Harold, Esq.
*Macleay, George, Esq.
Macleay, William, Esq.
*Mallaard, Charles, Esq., R.N.
Mann, G. K., Esq.
Manning, Sir William M.
Manning, Edye, Esq.
Manning, James L., Esq.
*Marsh, M. H., Esq.
Marsh, Milbourne, Esq.
Martin, James, The Hon.
*Martin, Robert, Esq.
*Massie, H. H. Esq.
Massie, Robert George, Esq.
Maughan, John, Esq.
*Mayne, Capt. W. Colburn
*Merewether, F. L. S., Esq.
Merewether, Edward C., Esq.

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Mitchell, James, The Hon.
Mitchell, David Scott, Esq.
*Moffatt, T. D’Lacy, Esq.
*Molle, William M., Esq.
Morehead, R. A. A., Esq.
*Morley, J. George, Esq.
Moriarty, E. O., Esq.
Moriarty, A. O., Esq.
Morris, Augustus, Esq.
Mort, Henry, Esq.
Murray, The Honorable T. A., Esq.
Murray, C. K., Esq.

Nathan, Charles, Esq.
*Nesbit, Dr. R.N.
*Nicholson, Sir Charles, Bart., D.C.L.
*Noufflard, Hyppolite, Esq.

O’Brien, Henry, Esq.
O’Brien, B. Esq., M.D.
Ogilvie, Edward, The Hon.
Osborne, H. H., Esq.
Osborne, Alick, Esq.
Osborne, P. H., Esq.
Osborne, B. M., Esq.
Osborne, George, Esq.
Owen, Robert, Esq.

Palmer, William Hall, Esq.
Parbury, Charles, Esq.
*Parker, Sir H. Watson.
Park, Alexander, Esq.
*Peter, John, Esq.
Phelps, Joseph, J., Esq.
*Plomer, Thomas, Esq.
*Polhill, George, Esq.
Purefoy, W. A., Esq.

Ramsay, Robert, Esq.
Ray, Edgar, Esq.
*Raymond, Samuel, Esq.
Raymond, Robert Peel, Esq.
*Reeve, John, Esq.
*Rickards, Henry, Esq.
*Richardson, William, Esq.
Richardson, W. W., Esq.

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*Ritchie, Alexander, Esq.
Robinson, C.E., Esq.
Roberts, William, Esq.
Rolleston, Christopher, Esq.
Rossi, francis R. K., Esq.
Rothery, Montague, Esq.
Royds, Charles James, Esq.
*Royds, Edmund Molyneux, Esq.
Russell, J. W., Esq.
*Russell, Captain William, (Ravensworth.)
Russell, William, Esq.
Russell, Captain William, (Penrith.)
*Rutledge, William, Esq.

*Salting, S. K., Esq.
Saunders, J. A., Esq.
*Serecold, George E. S. P., Esq.
*Shields, Francis, Esq.
*Simpson, Charles, Esq.
Smith A. B., Esq.
Spain, Wm, Esq.
Stafford, Charles, Esq.
Stephens, Wm. John, Esq.
*Stirling, John, Esq.
Stuart, Alexander, Esq.
*Stuart, Captain G.P.S.,
Sutton, William, Esq.,
Taylor, W. T. Esq.
Thomson, The Honorable E. Deas, C.B.
Thorne, George. Esq.
*Tooth, Robert, Esq.
Towns, Robert, The Hon.
Traill, Rowland J., Esq.
*Trevelyan, The Rev. Mr.

*Vigne, Frederick, Esq.

*Walcott, Edmund, Esq.
*Walker, James Sydney, Esq.
Walker, Archibald, Esq.
*Walker, Sydney, Esq.
Walker, W. B., The Hon.
*Walsh, William Henry, Esq.
Want, R. J., Esq.

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Warren, Alexander, Esq.
*Wason, William Henry, Esq.
Watt, J. B., Esq.
*Wauchope, Andrew, Esq.
*Way, Arthur E., Esq.
*Wentworth, W. C., Esq.
*Wentworth, Fitz William, Esq.
*Were, George, Esq.
Williams, J. H. Esq.
Wise, George Foster, Esq.
*Witt, George, Esq., M.D.
Wrench, Edward, Esq.
Wyld, Edward, Esq.

Zouch, Henry, Esq.

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[Not transcribed – Writ Summonsing James Macarthur to the Legislative Council

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1866 Writ Summoning the Honourable James Macarthur to the Legislative Council of New South Wales.

Exhibited before the Council the 24th day of July 1866

[Signed] [indecipherable]
Clerk of the Parliament

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On the 26th the commodious building erected for the School of Arts at Camden was opened, a large number of the residents of Camden and its immediate vicinity being present. The Hon. James Macarthur, of Camden Park, delivered the inaugural address. The Hon. the Premier and several other influential gentlemen also attended.

The question was put, and the Council divided. Mr. Plunkett, Mr. Allen, and Mr. Weekes were the minority in favour of sending the bill to a select committee. Mr. Docker, Sir W. Manning, Mr. Byrnes, Mr. Blaxland, Mr. B. Russell, Sir W. Macarthur, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. James Macarthur, and Mr. Cox voted for the second reading. The bill was read a second time.

Mr. James Macarthur, while holding that there should be a Minister o the Crown at the head of the education of the country, did not think that Minister should be the Colonial Secretary, whose office could not be separated from party considerations. He supported the amendment, and suggested that there would be a Minister for Education, to whom also might be entrusted the judicial establishments of the country.

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Revd. G. Tingecombe’s Sermon
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Matthew XXIV 44. Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not the love of Grace cometh.

St. Paul in that beautiful Chapt of his Epistle to the Hebrews which is familiar to us all, reminds us of those holy men of old who were remarkable for their faith, & for those graces also which are the friend of faith. He proposes their example for our imitation – some particular virtue was prominent in each, & of each sit might well have been said (as it was especially of Abel) that “he being death yet speaketh". Abraham is the pattern of unwavering faith in the promises of God – that grace was pre-eminent in him, & his obedience to God’s command to offer up his Son has

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made him known among all people as the father of the faithful. In Moses humility self denying modesty were graces characteristic of the man; but through faith they were combined with such firm resolution & courage that singly he faced the anger of the whole congregation of Israel, took from them their golden calf, & stamped it to powder before their eyes. Joseph in the course of his long life of trial & affliction affords us a bright example of a pure & loving spirit & a pattern] of true family affection. Others of the Saints & prophets of old are mentioned as exemplyfying the life of faith. They passed through this world as pilgrims “desiring a better country i.e. one heavenly". They ran “with patience the race set before them" & are examples to us even who live in these Gospel days.

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see ones here or there among us, in whose characters some of those graces for which the Saints of old were remarkable are well reflected. While with us we seldom appreciate such an [indecipherable] as we ought, but when he leaves us, we feel hourly the extent of our loss. We confidently believe that he has been called to “go up higher", and to love h im, we rejoice that he has found admission to His Father’s House. Well may we say in such a case “he being dead yet speaketh".

But I need not say more plainly that these words have on the present occasion a special application to ones who on Sunday last was here our fellow worshipper, whose voice there joined with ours in praise & adoration for the last time; but who still speaks to us by his life; And not by his life only, but also

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by his death also. Yes he being dead speaketh as it were those words of my text, & in allusion to his sudden call to the presence of God he says to us “Therefore be ye also ready for in which an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh".

All death is awful. We know very little about it. What we do know is that the Spirit dies not & sleeps not; it passes into a new state of existence of which we know almost nothing. We cannot even in thought [indecipherable] a Spiritual being; we cannot say that it is here or there. St. Paul indeed speaking of Christians, tells us that to die is to be with Christ, & our faith tells us that the perception of this presence must be bliss, but of the manner in which that presence can be perceived by a disembodied spirit we know nothing. As Christians we know that to be conscious that God loves us is to

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be truly happy; & we cannot doubt that a Sp[irit must be more conscious of His love, more capable of knowing God who is a Spirit, than we who while in the body, see only “as through a glass darkly". It is this ignorance about it that makes death so awful – and still more awful is sudden death. Not that we judge it to be always unhappy, still less of any proof of God’s displeasure. Our blessed Lord Himself speaking of those on whom the Tower in [indecipherable] fell has warned us against such judgment but it is peculiarly awful because we feel that men live so that as a general rule, it must find them unprepared. We fear it for ourselves, we wish to die with a heart warned by meditation & with a prayer for pardon & acceptance on our lips, we wish too for human sympathy, & for such aid as a fellow mortal can give us in making our peace with God. Little indeed can either of these avail, but such as they are we value them (who will deny it?)

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and so it comes to pass that we find sudden death depreciated in our litany as an evil from which we pray God to deliver us. I think that there is often a misapprehension of this prayer in the Litany. Sudden death as there referred to involves the idea of death which is premature as well as unprepared. It was in this sense that holy men of old depreciated it – Job, for instance, speaks of its being a blessing “to fulfil our course, to come to our Grave in a full age like as a shock of corn cometh in his season". And David prays “O my God take me not away in the midst of my days.". But when length of days was granted, a sudden call to terminate a useful & a godly life seems to have been with them, as it should be with us, almost a matter of indifference. We all must admit that to die prematurely is of very little consequence in comparison with dying unprepared; indeed through

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to live long & see good days" has always been held to be a blessing; yet to be called earlier to a happier state can scarcely be considered an evil. We come then to this conclusion that sudden death is awful to those only who die unprepared. While the being spared the pain & anxiety usually abundant on our dissolution is undoubtedly a blessing & privilege.

I have made these observations because the sudden call of time to whom I allude infusses with tenfold force the advice which as I said his voice seems to utter on this occasion “Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh".

It is a delicate task to speak in terms of praise of any one in this House. Here as a general rule, I speak only of Christ, & of those whose names are written in God’s Book for our instruction.

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and there is another reason why it is hard to speak of one whose memory we cherish with affection. We know not whether the spirit of the departed may linger near, or may have means of intelligence, surer & swifter than the lightning of all we do & say: in such case we may fear lest our human praise should be painful to one who now beholds his Saviour’s face; who feels more than ever his own nothingness, & that all is of Christ", also therefore would cry out if he could with St. Paul “Not I, Not I, but the grace of God which was with me". While the importance of this opportunity forbids me to be silent – for your sakes I must speak of him, & of his preparation that we may all “go & do likewise" –

It is not my intention, nor indeed is it my province (especially here) to bid you look back upon a long life of political

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usefulness; nor even to dwell upon the particulars of that painstaking attention always so willingly bestowed upon all which he thought could in any way advance the social welfare & intellectual improvement of his fellow men. Those who have known him longest, have known most of these things; they are more or less mixed up with the history of this country, & will not readily be forgotten; & no one need doubt that if to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, & to visit those who are sick & in prison be a ground of acceptance with our Judge – one who (in addition to these things) becomes the promoter of all wise & judicious measures which contribute largely to the comfort & well being of the many shall in no wise lose his reward. But thoughts of these things do not call forth so directly affection for the man. It is the individual act

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of kindness, the unvarying gentleness, the wise advice, the kind assistance, the brotherly loving kindness. These are the things which make our hearts burn within us when we talk of the good man that is gone. It is however unnecessary & would be unseemly to state particulars of that Christian benevolence to which I refer. I must pass on to the example which he has consistently exhibited with regard to religious duty.

It is by no means a ground for [indecipherable] him that he was not wont to speak much upon religious subjects, but he never was silent when there was a sufficient reason for expressing his opinions. Those opinions were carefully formed, & were plainly uttered if they were asked for; & this leads me to make an observation, the justice of which

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will readily be admitted. He was emphatically a man of truth – one of whom it could rarely if ever be said that he “spoke unadvisedly with his lips" – & therefore even inaccuracy could rarely be laid to his charge. In this his example should prove useful in these evil days; it was not merely that his word was his bond, but that in all things he “spake the truth from his heart", - & this I take to be the indispensable foundation of a Christian character.

I need not mention (for yourselves have witnessed) the regularity of his attendance here. I spoke just now of hearing his voice within these walls, & even in that I believe that his example has been beneficial. In few churches are the responses in our beautiful Liturgy more audibly & reverently repeated

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than in this, & that gratifying fact is in great measure due to his example. When to this is added that he was a regular & devout communicant, it surely must be admitted that I have in few words sketched though inadequately the leading points of a Christian character which is not frequently surpassed, & indeed is rarely equaled. As a painter loves to touch & retouch the lines of a portrait intended to recall & prolong the memory of one beloved; so one finds it difficult to avoid lingering over such a portrait as that which I have now been drawing. The contemplation of that which is good & beautiful should make us happier & better, therefore would we linger over it. We hardly dare to call it sorrow with

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which we regard his removal, for thought of him should only make us more sensible of affection & attachment; in a word they should make us better Christians, not less happy.

And what matter to such as one if his call were sudden! What matter that it was “in such an hour as he thought not that the Son of Man came to him". He was ready, nay singularly happy in the circumstances attending his call; The Easter morning found him in possession of health & strength, & he came as usual to the House & Table of the Lord, there to receive such supplies of spiritual strength, little thinking, perhaps, that the end of his pilgrimage was so close at hand, & yet no doubt aware

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that such an event was not by any means improbably. Strange & wonderful it seems to us that before another sun could rise, the immortal spirit returned to God who gave it. On that holy Anniversary of his Lord’s resurrection, he had heard out of God’s word how the blood of the Paschal Lamb had been the means of [indecipherable] from the Israelites. The [indecipherable] of the destroying Angel; & by the participation of that Holy Sacrament we receive the blood of the true Paschal Lamb which seen on the lips of the Christian, shall we trust be the means, not only of safety, but of acceptance with Him who said “He that eateth men, even he shall live by Me".

For him it was an enviable departure from this world, without pain either

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of mind or body; and we, while we lament our loss, a loss which will long be felt by all in this Parish, & indeed in this country, cannot but look upon such a death as a privilege. Would that we were like him in his preparation, then with reference to his case we might pray “let me die the death of the righteous, & let my last end be like his".

Brethren, he was one of the few whose faith we should do well to follow, considering the end of their conversation. Jesus Christ the same yesterday today & for ever. Think then, I repeat, that you hear his voice in the words of the text exhorting

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you “Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh".

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A Sermon Preached in
St. John’s Church, Camden,
On Sunday 28th April 1867,

On the occasion of the death of
James Macarthur, Esq,

by the Rev. H. Tingcome,
Incumbent.

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A Sermon Preached in
St. John’sChurch, Camden,
On Sunday 28th April 1867,

On the occasion of the death of
James Macarthur, Esq,

by the Rev. H. Tingcome,
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Explanatory Notice

This Sermon is published under the following circumstances:

It so happened that on the morning when it was preached rain was falling in such torrents, that about twenty persons only attended the Church out of a congregation of nearly two hundred. It is partly, therefore, to meet the wishes of those who were absent on that occasion that it is now presented to them in print.

But there is another reason: a strong feeling exists among us as a congregation, that one who has entitled himself to the gratitude of his country, one of the few men therein, who might claim the name of “Statesman", one who has contributed largely to the welfare and happiness of his fellow-colonists, and, above all, one whom we have so long regarded with esteem and affection as united with us in faith, wise in counsel, and worshipping at the same alter, would not be allowed to pass away from among us without some effort on our part to show our appreciation of his character, and our affection for his person. We know well the great personal interest which our lamented friend took in the erection of the Church in which he has been for so many years a constant worshipper; we know also that although the essentials for public worship are sufficiently cared for in that Building, there are some things which it would have greatly gratified him to be able to provide, - things pertaining not only to ornamentation, but to the more decent and convenient

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celebration of Divine Service. But it as pleased God to minish greatly the temporal prosperity of the Camden district. Those means which he, and others gladly devoted to such objections are no longer available and improvements which were contemplated have not been carried out. Among these is the enlargement of the Chancel, a work which could be most conveniently done in connection with one which it is now proposed to undertake; namely, the erection of a Memorial Window, a work of art which, while it will largely contribute to the beauty of God’s House, will also serve to perpetuate the member of His servant whom we desire to honour.

The Church at Camden is itself a Monument for the Macarthur family, “more durable than those of brass." The land was early devoted to the purpose by Captain John Macarthur, whose name is so prominently connected with the history of New South Wales. The building was erected by our lamented friend, and his brother Sir W. Macarthur, with some aid from public and private sources; but to complete it in all its details was impracticable. In particular the Chancel was too small in comparison with the Nave, and in other respects the Church when opened for use, though good and substantial, was plain and incomplete. In the improvements since made, the Founders have always expressed the gratification it afforded them to feel, that in any thing which they did towards the work, they were only carrying out the wishes and designs of their venerated parents.

It is fitting that such an undertaking should originate with the congregation who owe the possession of the Church itself, in great measure, to the energetic and liberal exertions of the Macarthur family; but, for the reason before stated, it is useless to expect to raise here more than a small part of the required expenditure. When however we consider the number, and

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position of those whom Mr. Macarthur had in various ways attached to himself as his personal friends, and political admirers, we are convinced that an appeal to them, whether resident in England, or in the Colony, will meet such a response as will overcome all difficulty with regard to the funds. To facilitate such an appeal to friends at a distance, we publish the Sermon annexed, which, though inadequate as a tribute to the memory of our lamented friend, may serve at least to express the reverence and affection with which he was regarded.

Extinctus Amabitur Idem

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A Sermon
Matthew xxiv. 44
“Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh."

St. Paul in that beautiful Chapter of his Epistle to the Hebrews which is familiar to us all, reminds us of those holy men of old who were remarkable for their faith, & for those graces also which are the fruits of faith. He proposes their example for our imitation. Some particular virtue was prominent in each, & of each sit might well have been said (as it was especially of Abel) that “he being dead yet speaketh". Abraham is to us the pattern of unwavering faith in the promises of God; that grace was pre-eminent in him, & his obedience to God’s command to offer up his Son has made him to be honoured among many nations as the “father of the faithful". In Moses humility and self denying modesty were graces characteristic of the man; but through faith they were combined with such firm resolution and courage that he was enabled singly to face the anger of the whole congregation of Israel, to take from them their golden calf, and to stamp it to powder before their eyes. Joseph in the course of his long life of trial and affliction, affords us a bright example of a pure and loving spirit and a pattern] of true family affection. These and others of the Saints and prophets of old are mentioned as exemplifying the life of faith. They passed through this world as pilgrims “desiring a better country, that is an heavenly; " – they “ran with patience the race set before them" and are examples to us even who live in these Gospel days.

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And we, brethren, may occasionally see ones here or there among us, in whose characters some of those graces for which the Saints of old were remarkable are well reflected; while with us we seldom appreciate such an one as we ought, but when he leaves us, we feel keenly the extent of our loss. We confidently believe that he has been called to “go up higher", poor human nature will have its way – will “weep and lament". We who hve been permitted to know and to love him, cannot bring ourselves at once to “rejoice" that he has found admission to His Father’s House.

“He being dead yet speaketh:" I need hardly say that these words are now quoted with special application to ones who on Sunday last was here our fellow worshipper, whose voice then joined with ours in praise and adoration for the last time; who still speaks to us by his life; And not by his life only, but alas by his death also. Yes he being dead speaketh as it were those words of my text, and in allusion to his sudden call to the presence of God he says to us “Therefore be ye also ready for in which an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh".

All death is awful. We know very little about it. What we do know is that the Spirit dies not – that it sleeps not; but that it parts into a new state of existence of which we know almost nothing. We cannot even in thought limit a Spiritual being, - we cannot say that it is here or there. St. Paul indeed speaking of Christians, tells us that to die is to be with Christ, and our faith tells us that the perception of this presence must be bliss, but of the manner in which that presence can be perceived by a disembodied spirit we know nothing. As Christians we know that to be conscious that God loves us is to be truly happy; and we cannot doubt that a Spirit must be more conscious of His love, more capable of knowing God who is a Spirit, than we who while in the body, see only “as through a glass darkly". It is this ignorance about it that makes death so awful – and still more awful is

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sudden death. Not that we judge it to be always unhappy, still less of any proof of God’s displeasure. Our blessed Lord Himself speaking of those on whom the Tower in Siloam fell has warned us against all rash judgment but sudden death is peculiarly awful because we feel that men live so that, as a general rule, it must find them unprepared. We fear it for ourselves. We wish to die with a heart warned by meditation and with a prayer for pardon and acceptance on our lips. We wish too for human sympathy, and for such aid as a fellow mortal can give us in making our peace with God. Little indeed can either of these avail, our own voice must “ask", our own hand must “knock" at the door of mercy; but such as they are we value them (who will deny it?) and so it comes to pass that we find sudden death, deprecated in our Litany as an evil from which we pray God to deliver us. I fear that there is often a misapprehension of this prayer in the Litany. Sudden death as there referred to involves the idea of death which is premature as well as unprepared. It was in this sense that holy men of old deprecated it. Job, for instance, speaks of its being a blessing “to fulfil our course, to come to our Grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season". And in like manner David prays “O my God take me not away in the midst of my days.". But when length of days had been granted, a sudden call to terminate a useful and a godly life was doubtless with them, as it should be with us, almost a matter of indifference. In fact we shall all, I think, be included to admit that sudden death can be considered an evil to those who only who die unprepared; while to be spared the pain and anxiety usually attendant on dissolution is undoubtedly a blessing and privilege.

I have made these observations because the sudden call of time to whom I allude impresses with tenfold force the advice which as I said his voice seems to utter on this occasion

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“Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh".

It is a delicate task to speak in terms of praise of any one in this House. Here as a general rule, I speak only of Christ, and of those whose names are written in God’s Book for our instruction; and there is another reason why it is hard to speak of one whose memory we cherish with affection. We know not whether the spirit of the departed may linger near, or may have means of intelligence of all we say and do, swifter than the lightning and clearer than speech could convey it; and in such case we may fear lest our human praise should be painful to one who now beholds his Saviour’s face; - who feels more than ever his own nothingness, - that all is of Christ", and who, therefore, would cry out if he could with St. Paul “not I, but the grace of God which was with me". Still the importance of this opportunity forbids me to be silent. For your sakes I must speak of him, and of his preparation that we may “go & do likewise".

It is not my intention, nor indeed is it my province, especially here. to bid you look back upon a long life of political usefulness; nor even to dwell upon the particulars of that painstaking attention always so willingly bestowed upon all which he thought could in any way advance the social welfare & intellectual improvement of his fellow men. Those who have known him longest, have known most of these things, for he was constantly occupied therein, and they are more or less mixed up with the history of this country. They will not readily be forgotten; and no one need doubt, that if to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, & to visit those who are sick and in prison, be a ground of acceptance with our Judge, one who (in addition to these things) becomes the promoter of all wise and judicious measures which contribute largely to the comfort and well-being of the many, “shall in no wise lose his reward." But thoughts of these things do not call forth so directly affection for the man. It is the individual act of kindness, the

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unvarying gentleness, the wise advice, the kind assistance, the “brotherly loving-kindness"
- these are the things which make our hearts burn within us when we talk of the good man that is gone. It is, however, unnecessary, and would be unseemly, to state particulars of that Christian benevolence to which I refer. I must pass on to the example which he has consistently exhibited with regard to religious duty.

It is by no means a ground for blaming him that he was not wont to speak much upon religious subjects,; but he never was silent when there was a sufficient reason for expressing his opinions. Those opinions were carefully formed, and were plainly uttered if they were asked for; and this leads me to make an observation, the justice of which will readily be admitted. He was emphatically a man of truth – one of whom it could rarely, if ever, be said that he “spoke unadvisedly with his lips" and therefore even inaccuracy could rarely be laid to his charge. In this his example should prove useful in these evil days; it was not merely that his word was his bond, but that in all things he spoke the truth from his heart, and this I take to be the indispensable foundation of a Christian character.

I need not mention (for yourselves have witnessed) the regularity of his attendance here. I spoke just now of hearing his voice within these walls, and even in that I believe that his example has been beneficial. In few churches are the responses in our beautiful Liturgy more audibly and reverently repeated than in this, and that gratifying fact is in great measure due to his example; when to this is added that he was a regular and devout communicant, it surely must be admitted, that we have before us the leading points of a Christian character which is not frequently surpassed, and indeed is rarely equalled. As a painter loves to touch and re-touch the lines of a portrait by which it is intended to recall and to prolong the memory of one beloved, so one finds it difficult to avoid lingering over such a portrait as that which I have now been drawing; the

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contemplation of that which is good and beautiful should make us happier and better, therefore would we linger over it. We hardly dare to call it sorrow with which we regard his removal, for thoughts of him should only make us more sensible of affection and attachment; in a word - they should make us better Christians, not less happy!

And what matter, Brethren, to such an one if his call were sudden! What matter that it was “in such an hour as he thought not" that the Son of Man came to him. He was ready, nay, singularly happy in the circumstances attending his call. The Easter morning found him in possession of health and strength, and he came as usual to the House and Table of the Lord, there to receive fresh supplies of spiritual strength, little thinking, perhaps, that the end of his pilgrimage was so close at hand, and yet, no doubt, aware that such an event was not by any means improbably. Strange and wonderful it seems to us that before another sun could rise, the immortal spirit returned to God who gave it. On that holy Anniversary of his Lord’s resurrection, he had heard out of God’s word how the blood of the Paschal Lamb had been the means of warding from the Israelites. The stroke of the destroying Angel; and in the participation of that Holy Sacrament we receive the blood of the true Paschal Lamb which, seen on the lips of the Christian, shall, we trust, be the means, not only of safety, but of acceptance with Him Who said “He that eateth men, even he shall live by me".

For him it was an enviable departure from this world, without pain either of mind or body; and we, while we lament our loss, a loss which will long be felt by all in this Parish, and by many in this country, cannot but look upon such a death as a privilege. Would that we were like him in his preparation, for then might we pray with reference to his case “let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his".

Brethren, he was one of the few whose faith we should

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do well to follow, “considering the end of their conversation, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday today and for ever. Think then, I repeat, that you hear his voice exhorting you in the words of the text, “be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh".

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Sydney 8 May 1807

My dear Sir William,
You are right in supposing that I hold both your late brothers an assign settlement and his will, and on the very day I received your letter I meant to have written to you to enquire as to the proof of the will.

The executors are yourself Mrs. Macarthur and Mrs. Onslow and it will be quite sufficient if any one or more of them should prove. I will therefore suggest that you alone should

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act as executor which the Court will allow you to do reserving liberty to the other two to act whenever they may think fit. This will save them a good deal of trouble and annoyance.

The executor’s duties extend, as you are no doubt aware, only to the collection and realization of the personal estate and the payment of debts etc. and the Trustees duties to the management of the real estate and of any personal estate which may remain after payment of

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claims, and the fact of Mrs. Macarthur’s not joining in proving the Will will not prevent her acting as trustee.

I do not quite understand what you mean as to the succession duty abating by [indecipherable] £20000. Under the regulations issued by the Government (which are in contravention to the Stamp Act}, the widow pays no duty. The daughter however is liable to 9 per cent duty, and under any circumstances probate duty on the personal estate

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will be payable at the rate of 9 per cent. I am afraid you will have some trouble with the stamp commissioner he being a man quite unfit to be entrusted with the working of an act so oppressive and damaging as the stamp act, which, in its present shape is quite unfit for a country like this, even if it can be thought to be endurable anywhere.

I fully sympathize with you and the other members of your later brothers family under the great bereavement

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you have sustained. Although it seemed to me on my last visit to Camden that such an event was not very far distant I was quite unprepared ~~for~~ to expect so speedy a fulfillment of my fear. It must be a great comfort to you all to remember that during your later brothers long career of public life and usefulness he has never done anything to disgrace his name and that he has gone down with grace - esteemed and regretted

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by every body.

Our country can ill afford the loss of such a man.

With kind remembrances to Mrs. Macarthur and Mrs. Onslow.

Believe me
[indecipherable]
James Norton
S. William Macarthur

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James Norton
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Parsonage
Goulburn
9 May /67

My dear Sir William,

I trust you will not think me the less sincere because circumstances over which I had no control have prevented my addressing you sooner upon the melancholy event which has befallen your family.

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I can say with the greatest truth that no event of a similar kind has occurred in my recollections in this Colony which has to so deeply affected the public mind. Although there is evidently a strong tendency in some quarters to undervalue the services of good & patriotic men like your dear Brother yet I do think at the same time that the general feeling of the community is sound & that such men are deservedly held in honor. It is assuredly a good

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sign of the spirit of the community when the leading portion of the press pays a well deserved tribute to the dead. It must be very gratifying to his family to know that he was so much respected, & where he was most known he was most beloved. For my own past, ever since I entered the Colony I have watched with extreme satisfaction his career both as a public & private individual & I need not say that I feel deeply the loss of one whose opinion on all subjects was to

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worthy of confidence. His loss in any country would have been serious but in a new country I deem it a calamity. I am quite sure that in thus writing to you will give me credit for the most heartfelt sincerity & that ~~I feel~~ I should be doing very great violence to my feelings did I not give expression to the sentiment of the great respect which I have always entertained towards him who had been so suddenly removed our midst. Please convey my heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Macarthur & her daughter & accept the same from my dear Sir William.
Yours very faithfully
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Camden, 17th June 1867
Sir,
A wish having been expressed by a number of the friends of the late Mr. James Macarthur, residing in the Camden district, that a suitable Memorial should be erected to his memory; a Meeting was called on the 15th instant for the purpose of initiating proceedings, when the following resolution was unanimously adopted, and a Committee appointed for carrying out the proposal contained therein:-

“That this meeting learns with pleasure that it is proposed to do honor to the member of the late James Macarthur, Esq., by erecting a Memorial Window in Camden Church, enlarging the Chancel, and completing the edifice."

Such a tribute, it is believed, would be highly gratifying to the bereaved family of the lamented Gentleman, and whilst it would tend to honor and perpetuate his name would be most appropriate to the member of one whose life was distinguished by its moral and religious excellence.

It would also realise the expressed wishes of himself and family that the Church, towards the erection of which he had been a munificent contributor, and in which he had so regularly worshipped, might be finished in all its details, and thus rendered more fitting for the service of that Creator whom he at all times delighted to honor.

As the cost of such work would greatly exceed the resources of the congregation even though aided by others in the neighbourhood, the Committee have resolved to appeal to his numerous friends who may be disposed to assist them, and thus testify their appreciation of his many good and excellent qualities.

They are encouraged in this course from a feeling that Mr. Macarthur was not only a benefactor to the district in which he resided, but by his long and valuable political services (dignified by the purest motives, and most sterling patriotism) has placed his country under a debt of gratitude.

The Committee therefore would respectfully invite your co-operation and assistance in carrying out the proposal contained in the resolution, and thus doing honor to the memory of a good man.

We have the honor to be, Sir
Your obedient Servants,
James K. Chisholm
Matthew Kennett
Honorary Secretaries

N.B. Subscriptions may be addressed to the Treasurers of the Macarthur Memorial Fund, at the Bank of New South Wales, Camden.

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June 24th 1867

My Dear Macarthur.

I cannot express the deep sense of grief I felt at the tidings of your brother’s death. The first brief notification was by a Telegram from Cylon that simply conveyed the intimation “Mr. Js Macarthur is dead". A fortnight elapsed before the ordinary mail brought a confirmation of this sad intelligence. Notwithstanding the shortness (and to some extent vagueness) of the Telegraph, we were afraid to hope against the mournful impressions it created. Most thoroughly and from the very bottom of my heart, do I my Dear Macarthur, sympathise with you on this sudden and terrible posting from one, we all loved so well. I say us – for I assure you I loved your brother. No one I believe beyond yourself, and his very nearest relatives, had a more sincere affection for him than I had. For no one knew or appreciated his many noble and generous qualities better than I did. His character was so simple – so truthful & reliable

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so thoroughly unaffected, that at this moment and hereafter I may I am sure say, that amongst the wide circle of friends and acquaintances amongst whom my lot has been cast, I know not whence to find his like. How strange and inscrutable a disposition is it not .. that those endowed with so many qualities, calculated to procure a happiness and a blessing to all around them should be carried away from us, and so much folly and selfishness and dishonesty left to encumber the earth? The effect of such mournful scenes as the loss of old and dear friends, is to sicken us with life, and make one [indecipherable] wish for a close to a state of things so unsatisfactory. I could scarcely resist the intrusion of such feelings at times, were it not that in the face of such trials as the loss of friends whose place can never be fully filled, I have had vouchsafed to me a [indecipherable] because of social and domestic happenings than I could ever had a right to look for in this world, in the society and affection of my dear wife.

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I know the interest that your brother, and all of you took in my somewhat late entry into married life, and one of the dreams in which I have been want to indulge was that some day or other I might ~~I might~~ present my wife to James and his family and ask him and them to extend the friendship they had [indecipherable] for so many years to me, to her also. Well this is no longer possible, a few short years will bring the career of each of us to a close, and if we can divine that the nature of the happiness in our public life may be, I cannot but believe that one of the sources, if not the chief, of future felicity will be the several and perpetuation of our intercession with those whom we have loved on earth.

Looking calmly at the past, your brother must be considered most [indecipherable] in the circumstances under which he has passed away. He had seen his child happily married, he had suffered from no painful malady, in the midst of peace, he expired on the bosom of his wife! Who could wish to die under happier conditions? If those

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be happiness and peace for anyone beyond the grave, these must now be his position. It must also be a happiness to you to take his place in the discharge of all those duties which he filled as a husband and Father, and which I am sure will be not less faithfully performed by you, as a brother and Uncle. I will say nothing more at present, but simply beg to convey to Mrs. James Macarthur and Elizabeth, the [indecipherable] of my most earnest sympathy with them in their bereavement. That it may please God to give you health and strength for the numerous calls that will be made upon these facilities for some time to come, is believe me my Dear Macarthur, the heartfelt prayer of your very affectionate friend, C. Nicholson

Sir Js Macarthur

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[indecipherable] 25th August

My dear Sir William.

I [indecipherable] to send you a few times to tell you that my heart is full of sympathy for you. I know the grief it must be to you to lose the brother love & the constant friend & companion of your whole life – God alone knows how constantly [indecipherable]

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I honor him & He I trust will give some consolation. I also know you & Emily are cleaved very closely to each other by your common grief & that the soothing each other will as a Macarthur console each. She writes me a few lines by each mail & I feel deeply her

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doing so, the separation from you all & her especially at this moment is very trying, but she is blest of all you in being thus surrounded by those you love & who love you so the thought that I dear James then could be so suffering, I mourn him truly, for I loved him sincerely – it was impossible

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I knew him & not to do so. We are with Willie Majoribanks in a few days your very sincerely I. Norman

Sr. Wm Macarthur

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N.B. This letter appears to have been written prior to the movement which resulted in the issue of the Circular dated June 7, 1867, which see back on p. 236.

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[Pencil note]
(May or June) 1867
From Isabella Chesterton
nee [indecipherable] to Elizabeth Onslow
James Macarthur

Dearest L.

I quite forgot to speak to you and dear Mother on Sunday upon an object in which we are deeply interested.

The people in the village are making a movement in thinking of raising subscriptions to erect a tribute in the Church to dear Papa’s memory provided the family

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doesn’t object to them doing so. How James thinks that in present circumstances of the district – much as people would desire to give liberally they never [indecipherable] the means and the [indecipherable] dear the plan was not only a benefaction to his own district but to the Colony –

There are many friends – invisible and public who would only be too glad to contribute

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according to their means – in erecting something to the memory of one so much esteemed – James begs one to deny– that if you have no objections to his taking part in this matter, it will be a sincere pleasure to him and I cannot see that given his [indecipherable] there could be the slightest objection to his taking an active part in a

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matter of this kind. When the subscriptions are decided, it would be a matter for consideration how they were to be applied – a new Chancel in the Church with a Memorial Window would be my view but that might prevent Roman Catholics from contributing – but there are various ways in which they might erect a Memorial.

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at any rate only give your united consent that James may act - & he will consult with a few of his friends and the village people.

Jonny is going to Camden this morning. I quite forgot to mention it yesterday & as I don’t know whether he may be in [indecipherable] parts

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now, I have told him to come back tonight & go again some other day -
God bless you all darling. I hope Uncle Onslow is improving. This is the home we have [indecipherable] among the children if you don’t object and with very much love to you all.

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for believe me your very affectionate I.M.C.
I hope Uncle W’s cold is better – baby is quite better
Adieu

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September 6 1867

My dear Sir,

I have received a printed Circular signed by Mr. Kellett and [indecipherable] to a proposed memorial in Camden Church in honor of the late Mr Macarthur.

No one outside his family circle could join more heartily than myself

J. K. Chisholm, Esq.

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in any demonstration of respect to his memory but there is movement in progress here for that purpose in which I am taking an active part. The object is to have his full length portrait by an eminent artist placed on the walls of the Council Chambers. Were it not for this I would gladly join in the testimonial.

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you propose. Faithfully yours
T. A. Murray

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Sir W. Macarthur
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Camden 5 Oct 1868

My dear Sir William,

I send you two letters which I have received relative to the Memorial Fund.

I have answered that of Sir W. Manning which will be gratifying to you, and to others interested.

Referring to that from your brother the General, I have not get communicated

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its contents to any of the subscribers except W. Christenden and shall not do so until I have had an opportunity of seeing you or until I hear from you on the subject.

Believe me Sir
Truly yours
Henry Tingcombe

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11 August [1868]

~~37 Princes Gardens~~ SW

Dear Mr. Tingcombe,

Your letter of the 19th May has followed me to this place, in Ayrshire where I am now sojourning.

It would be very gratifying to carry out the views of my dear Brother as regards Camden Church had I the power of controlling the will of other persons. But now that the mind that animated him has fled, I am

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powerless to act as your letter expressed a wish for me to do. Any contemplated step presents as an insufferable difficulty. Were the functions of a Memorial to him confined to the Camden family it would be a simple personal effort for any one of its members as long as the needful contributions were not general or rather did not extend beyond myself.

I have no control over the purses of my friends or neighbours

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whereas the members of the Camden Family, in a [indecipherable] whatever sum my Brother William may subscribe, if it be no extravegant sum, I shall be happy to subscribe a like sum.

We have had rain in England and there is a prospect of an average yield of Wheat, but in other respects, pasture in particular the future will be [indecipherable].

Wishing you health &

Believe me
Dear Mr. Tingcombe
Very truly yours
Edward Macarthur

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Sep 28 W68

My Dear Tingcombe,

Shortly after Mr James Macarthurs death, a circular was sent to me proposing subscriptions in memoriam; but as there were several objects (if I remember rightly) to which to devote the , I was interrupted at the time, &

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laid the letter by for consideration. Time has passed on, and I have done nothing and now I cannot even find the paper. Will you now kindly be my medium of communication with the Committee (as I do not even recollect who wrote to me) and handing over the enclosed cheque to be applied to whichever object they have selected, or may

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think my small amount most application to. If they have no choice, I would name the memorial window, which I recollect was one of the things proposed in memory of our friend. I had a warm regard & great esteem for him, & was much pained at the [indecipherable] of my having so long neglected to give this little evidence of a desire

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to join in keeping him in memory at Camden Church.

Yours very truly
W. M. Manning

Remember me kindly to Mr. Tingcombe

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[Reminiscences of Thomas Taylor, Snr. written down by Joseph Whiting, 1870]

Mr. Thomas Taylor Senior

First settler in the Taralga District. 28th August 1870.

He was born in Chorley, Lancashire, January 19th 1800 consequently dying in his 71st year.

In the year 1822 he was in the employ of the later James McArthur, Esqre of Camden, who had at that time a station at Sutton Forest, where Taylor then resided. On the 9th November of that year he accompanied Mr. McArthur across the Cookundoon to the Tarlo River in search of a new cattle-station, and fixed upon a site at the point where the Taralga road now crosses the Tarlo River. A hut was erected on a spot that now forms part of the road about one hundred yards on the river side of Mr. Charles McInnis’ residence, the mark of their fire place being still visible. Mr. McArthur had also accompanying him the late Mr. McAlister who became the proprietor of the Strathaird estate, and the late Mr. John Hillas of Bannaby, who was then Mr. McArthur’s overseer. Mr. McArthur taking Mr. McAlister with him proceeded onward through the Cotter Walla (now Crookwell) district, making their way for Bathurst, from which place they returned home. Having sent Mr. Hillas back to Sutton Forest for the cattle and the other requisites for their new station, they left our friend Taylor in charge of their “selection before survey", and the stores they had brought with them until Mr. Millas’ return, making him completely the first white resident in what now forms the Tarlo, Taralga, Banaby, Bolong and other districts; and he might have then said under certain restrictions “I am Lord of all I survey". But by the time of his departure what a change has come over the scene! Stations, farms, villages, churches, chapels, and School houses, I cannot tell you how many

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and as to the number of inhabitants, only those employed to take the census can reveal.

During the time of Mr. Taylor’s residence on the station at Tarlo, among the many circumstances that occurred, was one he used to relate with greatful pleasure:

On one occasion they ran short of provisions and they made off to their nearest neighbour Dr. Gibson of Tirranna, to see if they could obtain what they so much required. In those days it was no easy task, and had to be performed by going the Tarlo road some distance, then crossing the ranges to the Wollondilly, following up its course to the junction of the Mulwarra Creek, and then proceeding up the creek to Tirranna. They met with a very kind reception from Dr. Gibson, who supplied their wants and only blamed such “near neighbours" for not paying him an earlier visit. At this time like all new districts, Tarlo was over run with blacks; but only on one occasion was Taylor molested by them. Perhaps his naturally peaceful disposition and urbanity of manners exercise an influence for good even over these savage possessors of the soil. On day, on that part of the run which now forms the Chatsbury estate, a very powerful blackfellow came upon him in a furious rage, for reasons or no reasons only known to himself, and with hideous grimaces and gesticulations, brandished a tomahawk over his cease, causing him fearful alarm, and making him believe his days were numbered. After keeping Taylor a short time in a dreadful state of suspense, the blackfellow altered his intentions and quietly walked away.

In the year 1825 Mr. Taylor left Mr. McArthur’s employ and went to Bong Bong; and in 1827 married, and with his wife came to Taralga, where by that time the Messrs. J. and W. McArthur had formed stations.

[In margin] The above was written by the late Mr. Joseph Whiting at Taylor’s dictation, on what proved to be his death bed, consequently reliable in very particular. (Signed) Thos. Taylor

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June 19th 1871

26, Devonshire Place,
Portland Place.

My Dear Chisholm,

I should have replied to your letter sooner on the subject of the Window, but for the circumstances that I thought it desirable to see whether the Cartoons forwarded by the “Queen of the Thames" were saved from the worst of that unfortunately vessel or not. As the post and paper sent by her reached their destination I was in hopes that the parcel sent to [indecipherable] might also have been saved. As these gentlemen have up to the present date heard nothing of it, I assume that it is incureably lost. It will therefore be incumbent on you to send home a duplicate of the drawings that have miscarried. It is very unfortunate that so prolonged a delay will be created in the execution of the order. I have of course only to add, that I shall in concert with our mutual friend

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Mr. George MacLeay spare no pains in trying to give support to the wishes of the subscribers to the Memorial window. To be able to take any share in an act intended to perpetuate the memory of so dear and valued a friend as the late James Macarthur will be with me a labour of love. The £.S.D. debt level, supplemented by George Macleay’s contribution, will I think suffice for the purpose intended as the window (from what I recollect of the Church and its dimensions) cannot be very large. Until the arrival of the Cartoons we can of course do nothing. The subject you mentioned as appropriate for illustration in the coloured glass will have to be artistically tested. It is now recognised as an established [indecipherable]. But in stained glass used for architectural purposes the first effect to be considered is colour. The picture or drawing whatever it is must be subordinated to the harmonious combinations of various tints. In truth no [indecipherable] picture of any artistic pretensions can be produced in glass, and most attempts of the kind offend against [indecipherable] asthetic rules.

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rule. Glasgow Cathedral and many of our Churches have been spoiled by the introduction of the [indecipherable] glass, the effect of which is widely different from that of the medieval period.

You will have watched with deep interest the progress of events in France during the last 9 months. The carnage during the last month has been most hideous, and some of the incidents can only find a parallel in the events of the first Revolution. The punishment inflicted by the Heirs’ government on the vanquished Communists has [indecipherable] too the character of an indiscriminate massacre, and expect greater thousand of innocent people have been sacrificed in the wholesale executions that have taken place. An amount of hatred and revengeful feeling has thus been laid up, that it will take ages to allay; and whatever government is inaugurated in Paris, will have to encounter the undying hostility of the men whose friends and families have been so mercilessly disposed of by the

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the people now in the ascendant. The majority of the French people are without question in favour of Monarchy, but the minority of [indecipherable] Socialist and Communists, will never submit to any majority that does not represent their own opinions, and hence a succession of plots and [indecipherable] may be looked for intended to oppose any government in France that may be formed for years to come. The Ex Emperor is perhaps the only man living capable of controlling the fiery elements of French Society, and it is much to be regretted that he is not 10 or 15 years younger than he actually is. Even with his age and impaired health, many people regard his return as the only reasonable solution of the frightful imbroglio into which Paris is [indecipherable].

Your account of the political [indecipherable] of the Colony accords all too closely with the [indecipherable] I discern from other quarters. Unhappily these issues hope for any improvements. The

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[indecipherable] of the majority that any ministry issue capable of commending is fatal to any efforts at establishing a really effective administration. At the present moment I do not see how the Colony is to meet its financial difficulties. The burden of taxation will be felt to be intolerable; more especially if the habit of every one borrowing money in the English market is persisted in.

I am delighted to hear of all your happy domestic surroundings. I trust that your children may be a source of happiness and comfort to you and their mother. The cares and responsibilities that attach themselves to a family are no doubt very great, but the happiness they reap is [indecipherable]. You will be glad to hear that we have had a small addition to our [indecipherable] in the birth of a second son, who is in full health, little fellow. Our oldest, Charlie has entered his 5th year. He is very quick and intelligent. He has a German nurse and is rapidly learning to speak German

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with as much fluency as English. It is one of the advantages of [indecipherable] education that children are taught, almost from their cradle to speak with as much facility 2 or 3 languages as a single one. I saw Lady [indecipherable] a few days ago. The General lives in [indecipherable], although his bodily health is good, his memory has I believe completely gone and life in his present condition is scarcely to be regarded as a boon. His wife is a most assiduous and tender nurse. I met Sir Henry Packer[?] [indecipherable] at the [indecipherable] Bank and occasionally see Lady P. Mr. Macleay has taken a charming old house in [indecipherable] and is busy planting and making improvements, as his new abode, in which the traditional hospitality of the Macleay family is kept up in [indecipherable] vigour.

I have little more to say except to offer my best regards to Mrs. Chisholm and all my old friends and connections.

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remember me also to your Father and [indecipherable] and Believe me [indecipherable] my dear Chisholm your old and very [indecipherable] friend

Charles Nicholson

James Chisholm Esq.

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[indecipherable]

12th August 1878

My dear Onslow

I attended a meeting of the Committee of the Memorial Window this morning, convened by Mr. Barker for the purpose of closing his duties as Treasurer in the fund, and handing over to the Church Wardens the balance of the Bank account.

A strong desire was

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was expressed by those present to see the work commenced and a [indecipherable] was adopted to the effect that the Church wardens take immediate steps towards the completion of the Chancel and the erection of the window. As one who took a real and early interest in the matter, I must confess I should like to see this beautiful and

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to my mind appropriate tribute to the memory of our lamented friend erected in its appropriate place, and I only repeat my circumstances will not allow me to contribute liberally to the object.

Still I think the funds in hand will go far towards defraying the cost and unless the event of having to borrow [indecipherable] seems to make good the deficiency I will cheerfully help in paying the interest

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until such time as we can wipe off the debt.

I hope Sir William will cheerfully join us in our efforts to complete the window which will greatly add to the beauty of our Church and prove a lasting Memorial of departed worth
With our kindest wishes for
Believe me
Yours affectionately
James N. Nicholson

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To Sir William Macarthur re window for Camden Church in memory of James Macarthur – e undated letters – Dec 1875 – April 1876? See pp. 281, 285, 289

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[Pages 292-303 not transcribed, as most is indecipherable]

Approximate date Dec 25, 1875 from ref on p. 287 to Reedy and plants brought back, this probably refers to the Cheveit Expedition to New Guinea in 1875. Dec 23, 1875. See refs in a letter to Sir W. Macarthur of Dec. 23, 1875 and his draft letter of January ? 1876, in Macarthur Papers, vol. 48, A2944 and letters from H. J. Veitch in A2945

[Transcribed by Val Ridley for the State Library of New South Wales]