still allows the person to retain it, means also to approve of the dismission of Mr Marsden. Has Governor Macquarie found such favour with your lordship, that he may with equal impunity, appoint a bad and dismiss a good Magistrate so it is another reason to limit an authority against the abuse of which there is nowhere any protesting and which is equally safe from censure, whether it punishes the good or promotes the bad. I am the more eager and anxious upon this subject, because the fatal step taken in the nomination of Messrs Thompson and Lord to the Magistracy, has laid the foundation of [indecipherable] and [indecipherable] animosities which have for these last eight years distracted the Colony; hence the attempt to force upon Mr Justice Bent and his Brother, the Judge Advocate, solicitors who had once been Convicts; it was indeed the natural consequence of the first measure for who were so fit to plead before Judges who had been convicts as Solicitors who had been in a similar predicament unless all this had been a matter of public notoriety it never would have been [indecipherable] that a Governor of an English Colony could have recommended to the Chief Justice of the settlement to admit men to practise in his Court, whose Character and conduct I can describe in no other way, those in the words of the Chief Justice himself.

The Individuals who have practised or who claim a right to be admitted as attorneys, are George Cropley, Edward Eagar, George Chatres, Michael Robbinson and William Fleming. With regard to their Characters, George Cropley is a man notorious in the annals of Westminster, and his infamous and base Character is well known to most practitioners in his [indecipherable].