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 lu obedience to Foveaiix aiul Paterson. Lieut. Kent took H,M,S. Porpoise to Port Dalryinple, amK satisfied with so honoarable a conveyance, in Jan. 1809 Paterson appeared on the scene, and assumed command nf the *'territorieB until His Majesty's ji^racious instruction Khali be ohtaiiied. It was a duty imposed on him t^onsetiueni tm the suspeuBifui of the governmeni of Wilham Bligh, E.sHiiire." '^ Johnston subsided into his fonuer position, and it was announced in the Gazette (8th Jan.) that he wouKI be the ** sitting magistrate for the ensuing week/* Bligh was indignant at being desij^inated as William Bligh, Esquire, but he had invited Paterson's coolness. When Paterson arrived in the Ptu-pttige be rpceiyed a warn- ing note from Foveaux, whu had dfrlveted a plot with Bligh'a connivance to place Paterson *mder arrest on reaching Port Jackson, Writing to Lord Castlereagh, Paterson said: ** Having in no instance given Comniodore Bligh the most trifling cause to contemplate an act of such unjustifiable violence, your Lordship a ill judge of my indignation." Bligh bore*' the most niiicorous ilhwill to any officer or inhabitant" who could in tbo remotest manner "interfere with his longing to gratify his insatiably tyrannic disposition/' and to advancn *'his pecuniary interest," it was i>ainful '*to contemplate the conse- quences which must have followed the continuation of his power/' It was Paterson's wish to send Johnston to England and to persuade Bligh to go thither. It was Bligh's aim to reinstate himself by force in Sydney. He thought that if he could obtain comuuiml of a nian-nf-war, he could hy threats of bombardment bring the inhabilants of Sydney to his feet. Paterson chartered the A l/iimd Gmtfhirr to ^onve' Bligh, but Bligli objected to being sent in a ship which was to carry also Johnston and Macarthur, Paterson found that Bligh intrigued, even while negotia- tions were ji lending, and Bligh bitterly complained that he was removed from Govennuent House to a subaltern's bar- rack, Lieut. Finucane, the subaltern lifist, swore however that the barrack was one of the best in Sydney, and that he Sffdiief^ Gazette, l-'Hli Jaiu IW^.