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 There were demonsfcratians of joy in Syduey at the down-^ fall of Bligh and the defeat of Crossley, Bonliret^ weru lighted. Bligh and his friends endeavoured afterwards^ to prove that a salute wan tired in lionour of Johnston's UBurpation, hut on this point as well as on an imputation that Macarthiir had, on the niglit before his trial, dined with the officers who were to sit in the Crimuial Court, the contrary evidence was overwhelming. There was a proposi- tion to raise a sum of money to defray the expenses o^H ilacarthur as a representative to lay before His Majesty's^ Government the circumstances of the colony, but though more than iilODO were subscribed the project was not , carried out, and four days after the meeting at which Maearthur's delegation was resolved upon, Johnstoi] appointed him Secretary. When Bligh's papers fell into the hands of Johnston luid' his friends, the opprobrious character given by Bligh to Atkins Avas discovered, and Atkins learned that wliile he had fancied himself a favourite with Bligh, he had been a- sponge in the hand of Crossley. Botli BMgh and Johnstonl desired to call Atkins as a witness in England. The latter succeeded; and the poor creature seems to have given evidence fairly. But though the inhabitants were generally satisfied wntli the change from the frenzy of Bligh to the military methods of Johnston and Macarthiir, Johnston found that in doing his duty a Governor made enemies. In a despatch (11th April 1808), he told Lord Casfclereagh; ''The iinanimitj in which I have felt so niueh pleasure 1 (piickly discovered was not to be preserved without a sacrifice of His Majesty'^ interests, and a departure from the regulations that have been made to check the importation of spirituous liquora( into the colony." Following King's practice, Johnston forbade the landing of spirits from an American vessel Bligh had, just before his deposition, allowed the landing ot anoUier exiiuiined a room which the steward hud saiil i-'oiitaiiieil nothin btit hia own bed mid some luiiibtsi'. Ulij^Ii swoie that uiie of ih aoldiiTB Ihieateiied to biiyonet liiiUj and that hf appealed to a aeigeiiiit to keep thf inan oiW Sutherland dyiiii-d that there was any siicM violence- Lieut. JHnehiii averred that the soldic^ra were veiy ** orderlv in their condutt, and it was to Minchiu that Bligh HiirrLndered Uitnacll. '