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 reflection, and the absence of temptation were better than the ** herding together in towns amidst a mass of disorders and vices.*' Much good might be effected by the introduc- tion of respectable persons worthy to be entrusted with authority over convict servants. The regulations which placed "the good and bad servant, the honest man and the thief, upon the same footing, and authorized hiui not only to claim hut to insist upon the same indulgences/' operated perniciously. Very shortly after the close of Macqaarie*B government, the Society of Arts in London presented to Macarthur by the hand of the Duke of Sussex two gold medals **for im- porting into Great Britain wool, the produce of his flocks, equal to the finest Saxon3^" Macquarie's treatment of the natives did not redeem the government from the shame attached to it after the departure of Phillip. He issued a proclamation (Dec* 1813) enjoining all persons to abstain from atrocities in New Zealand, Tahiti, and elsewhere- No vessel was to be allowed to clear from any port ** without entering into a bond of £1000'' to be of good behaviour. Trespass on lands and burial-grounds was forbidden. No native was to be shipped without his own consent. No female native was to be shipped without the Governor's permission. Up to this period Macqnarie had officially been courteous to Marsden. In April 1818 he issued an order — "to be read by the several chaplains during the time of Divine Service," returning (Macquarie's) most sincere '"thanks to (Marsden) for his able, firm, and unwearied exertions as a magistrate." In Dec, 1813, at Marsden's suggestion,^ & Society was formed for the protection of the South Sea Islanders against outrage. Macquarie was its patron; Marsden its secretary. When an ** Institution for the Civilization and Care of the Aborigines or Black Natives of New South Wales," was afterwards formed by Macquarie during Marsden's first visit to New Zealand, Marsden was not included among the managers, and did not visit the schooL ^ Biggs' 8 Report (Judicial^ &c.)» p* 27.