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 Jeffery Bent was furiously indignant at being recalled and protested hotly against his treatment. Until the beginning of 1817 he remained in New South Wales, harassing the Governor and stirring up discontent. He arrived in England after a long voyage by way of India in May, 1818, and began an attack on the Colonial Office. His first demand, for a refund of the expenses of his homeward voyage, was successful, but he failed in the next. This was a request for a clear acknowledgment that he had been recalled for political reasons, and also for a temporary provision till he should regain his position at the Bar. He also suggested that he should be appointed Civil Governor of New South Wales. Finally his persistency was rewarded by the Chief Justiceship of Grenada. From that time he passed altogether out of the history of New South Wales. But during the period between the closing of the Supreme Court in 1815 and his departure in 1817 he had by no means been idle, nor had his zeal been altogether fruitless.