grateful people fondly bend/' He was allowed publicly to

read his fulRorae odes at the Grovernor's levees , and to re* ceive the thanlcB of Macquarie'h; parasites. ^ These and similar instances were reported on hy Mr. Bigge, and must have been corrected by the Imperial Government if no graver compUcations had demanded redress* " In referring to the principle {said Mr. Bigge) by which Governor Mac- ijiiarie has been guided ui introducing thuRo individuals to the society of < Jovernmtmt Houae, ant! in atteuiptiiig and enamiraging others to adopt it^ I can only add the Imirible testimony of my approbation to that which has been so unequi vocally ox pressed by the Committee of Parliament, that ro- port<e<i on the .state of transportation in 18I2» and that which was ex- pressed in more i|ualified terms by your Lordship in your despatch to (jovernor Mactjuarie, 3rd Feb, 1814. Michael Crossley was early distinj^nished by the favour of Macquarie. He was one of those for whom fclie Governor speciaUy apphed to Judge Bent for permission to practise as an attorney. Bent declined on the gmimd that it was con- trary to law. When his assessors added their entreaties he regretted that '* any genthjman had been found who differed from him on a point of pure professional feeling and practice, and to say that thoae persons whom they confess it is a disgrace to admit to their tables or to suffer any jmrt of their families to associate with^ are fit and proper personB to be admitted to the 8ituatiou of attorney. I do now aolemnly declare that I will not admit as attorneys of thia Court nor administer the oath to persons who have been transported here aa felons.*' Though the admission of ex-felons as legal practitioners was not approved by Lord Bathurftt, hefotind other grounds for tlie dismissal of the Judge. It was prophesied at the time that Maequarie*s victory boded ill for the morals of the comniunitj^ and Macrjuarie remained in the colony long enouj^h to see cause to rei^^ret his patronage of Crossley, who was (23rd Aug. 1821) fined £50 for wilful and corrupt perjury. Such digappointnients appear to have soured Maeffuarie*s mind. At the close of his career he became severe eveo towards the class he had patronized ; and among whom it cnuld not be denied that cfirae had increased. In March 1821, twenty-five men w^ere sentenced to death in Sydney, and thw hanging of nineteen of them proved his change of opinion, or his temper's loss* Soon after^vards, when he was in Hobart Town, ten men out of twenty-five were ordered for execution.