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Rh the sympathies of the emancipist party, which contained so many elements of evil omen, scorned the weakness of reconciliation or forgiveness. He invited a large party to rejoice at the departure of their foe. An ox was roasted whole at his grounds at Vaucluse. The worser spirits of those assembled there wound up their orgies by carrying the bullock's head in token of triumph, in noisy procession in Sydney, parading it through the streets, and exhibiting it under the cabin-windows of the ship in which the Governor's family were about to sail. An illumination of the town was proposed, but rejected by the good sense of the community. An opposition newspaper was conspicuous in exhibiting its solitary flames. The coarse display at Darling's departure was long a charge against Wentworth's judgment and taste.

Col. Lindesay, of the 39th Regiment, assumed the reins of government until the arrival of General Bourke, who had been appointed Governor.