Forbes correspondence

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In 1826, the privates Joseph Sudds and Patrick Thompson deliberately committed theft in the expectation that they would be transported, a fate they believed to be preferable to continued service in the army. Lieutenant Governor Ralph Darling, Governor of N.S.W., commuted their sentence to a flogging and assignment of seven years hard labour in the chain gang. This collection includes reports, notes and correspondence with and from Francis Forbes, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW, that relate to the Sudds and Thompson cases, the transmission of charges by Captain Robison against Governor Ralph Darling, and Robison's trial and court martial.

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that he intended to complain of what he considered as grievances – And as a friend of his wife’s Mr Stephen’s family, I suggested to one whose opinion I knew was influential in with the rest of the family, that Captain Robinson should be cautious of preferring charges against his commander. and that he had better endeavour to get any supposed grievances redressed by the intercession of his friends than by an appeal to the Commander in Chief – But Whether Captain Robinson has transmitted made any charges against Your Excellency or not, I do not know; nor can I call to recollection distinctly recollect one single

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specific circumstance, of which I understood him to complain – I have never had any communication with him upon the subject; and when he was I met him he was in Sydney a few days since , I met him, by accident, (an association which probably gave [indecipherable] to the reports) at the tea table of Mr Justice Stephen, in company with the rest of his numerous Mr Stephen’s family, and at no other time.

Having, I hope, satisfied Your Excellency of the unfounded nature of the report, I must beg that Your Excellency will inform me who it was that might by communicated to your Excellency mentioned it to my prejudice, to prejudice me in the opinion of Your Excellency -

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Sir,

I beg to return herewith the Enclosure which accompanied your second letter of Saturday. Without entering further into the question than relates to the letter written Home respecting Mr Mackaness, I must say, the circumstance is so totally unfounded, that I feel it quite impossible to give any credit to the statement. I should be at aloss to conceive how Colonel Stewart, could ever have known that I had made any communication to His Honour The Chief Justice

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to His Majesty's Government reporting Mr. Mackaness - I am not in the habit of communicating the Despatches I write or mine to any one - and I have no reason to think, I ever mentioned to Colonel Stewart my having written home on the subject in question.

I have the honor to be Sir, Your most obed. Hble servant, Ra Darling.

Govt. House 24 March 1828.

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Sydney 24th March 1828 Sir, I have had the honour to receive your Excellency's letter [original text has been crossed out] of this morning, return-ing Mr. Mackaness's [original text has been crossed out] "communication" to me, dated the 22nd instant - My object in enclosing [original text has been crossed out] that communication to your Excellency, was to show the very extraordinary freedom which [original text has been crossed out] have been taken with my [original text has been crossed out] name - From my own knowledge, I was aware that the statement, whether made by Colonel Stewart or not, so far as it respected my dictating any letter in your Excellency's presence, was [original text has been crossed out] untrue. There is a circumstance however, [original text has been crossed out] mentioned by Mr. Mackaness [original text has been crossed out] which cannot have escaped your Excellency - it is true that I did express in Council the opinions [original text has been crossed out] stated in his letter - Your Excellency will recollect that the Executive Council were concerned, about twelve months ago, after divine service, at [original text has been crossed out] government. His Excellency The Governor

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