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rd of August, 1816: Banishment of Dewall
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3rd of August, 1816: Banishment of DewallOn the 3rd of August Dewall’s banishment to Van Dieman’s Land was proclaimed. Dewall may have been banished, rather than executed, not just because of Atkins advice regarding the legal standing of Aboriginal people, but because he may not have been involved in the 1816 hostilities. Dewall was probably banished to reinforce the impact of the proclamation of the 20th of July 1816. As well, exiling Dewall was probably designed to put Throsby in his place. Charles Throsby secured Dewall’s pardon in 1819. Dewall accompanied Throsby on later exploring trips. ‘GOVERNMENT PUBLIC NOTICE AND ORDER. CIVIL- DEPARTMENT. WHEREAS a Native Black Man of this Colony, called and known by the Name Of Dewal, or Dual, was lately apprehended and lodged in His Majesty's Gaol at Sydney, in Consequence of having excited and encouraged, and been himself actually concerned with several of his Tribe in committing various atrocious Acts of Robbery, Depredation, and Barbarity, on the Property and Persons of His Majesty's loyal Subjects residing in the Interior of this Settlement. And whereas the said Dewal or Dual, as well by being a Leader among his own People, as by such flagrant and sanguinary Acts, is become dangerous to the Peace and good Order of the Community; it is therefore expedient and necessary, for the Security and Preservation thereof, that such Crimes and Offences as the said Dewal or Dual has been guilty of and personaly (sic) concerned in should meet with condign Punishment, in order to deter others from committing the like. By Virtue therefore of the Power vested in me, as Governor in Chief of this Territory, and moved with Compassion towards the said Criminal, in Consideration of his Ignorance of the Laws and Duties of civilized Nations, I do hereby remit the Punishment of Death, which his repeated Crimes and Offences had justly merited and incurred, and commute the same into Banishment from this Part of His Majesty's Territory of New South Wales to Port Dalrymple, in Van Diemen's Land, for the full Term of Seven Years, to commence and be computed from the Day of the Date hereof. And the said Dewal or Dual is accordingly hereby ordered to be forth with banished, for the said Terni of Seven Years, to Port Dalrymple aforesaid; during which Period the said Dewal or Dual is under no Pretence whatever to reappear in this Part of the Territory of New South Wales, on Pain of suffering the Punishment of Death as a Felon. And all His Majesty's Subjects within the said Territory and its Dependencies are hereby strictly charged and commanded not to aid, abet, or assist the said Black Native Dewal, or Dual, in any Attempt he may make to escape from the Place of his said Banishment, during the said Term of Seven Years, as they shall answer the same at their Peril. Given under my Hand, at Government House, Sydney, in New South Wales aforesaid, this Thirtieth Day of July, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixteen. "LACHLAN MACQUARIE." By Command of His Excellency, J. T. CAMPBELL, Secretary.’244 Another article in the same issue of the Gazette, 3rd August informed the reader that Governor Macquarie’s proclamation was beginning to have an effect upon the safety of travellers. ‘Several of the natives, who were suspected to be the most atrocious actors in the late barbarities, have been apprehended, and are in confinement. The banishment of the native Dewal, or Dual, to a distant settlement, which mode of disposing of him is announced in His EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR'S General Orders under date the 30th ult. may possibly produce a greater dread in the minds of his predatory associates than if he had been killed when in the act of plunder. The doubt of what may be his fate, when absent, is likely to excite a dread which may render them less liable to a similar treatment, the justness of which they cannot at the same time challenge, as they are sensible that the crimes of this offender were enormous. The Proclamation prohibiting their travelling armed about the Settlements has had the salutary effort of guarding the lonely traveller from their hostilities upon the public roads, as had often been before the case; and from the tenor of the regulations that have been adopted towards them generally, there can be little doubt that the hostile tribes must shortly retire, and that such as prefer a friendly intercourse with us will find a peaceable deportment the most conducive to their comfort.’245 10th of August, 1816: Payments to guides‘Mr. John Warby, and others, as Rewards for their Services in acting as Guides to the Military Detachments sent out in Pursuit of the hostile Native Tribes ₤99 - 5 - 0.’246 26th of August, 1816: Attack on Cox’s Mulgoa estateThe killing of one of Cox’s shepherds and the destruction of his sheep was responded to quickly. While there was conflict on the Hawkesbury, I can find no evidence to suggest that there were large bodies of warriors on the Hawkesbury. The available evidence appears to suggest quite the contrary. Whether there was an alliance of warriors, stretching north to the Hunter; or Aboriginal people reacted individually to incursions all along the frontier remains unclear. Certainly the Gazette article inflamed the situation. ‘The body of a shepherd belonging to the estate of Mulgoa, who had been recently murdered by some natives, was found on Monday last on a grazing ground near the farm, in a most mutilated and mangled state, having been perforated with spears in several parts, and otherwise most barbarously used. The flock in the charge of this unfortunate man consisted of upwards of 200 very fine sheep, most of which were thrown down an immense precipice by the savages, and the remainder, about 50 in number, were barbarously mangled and killed, many of the unoffending and defenceless creatures having had their eyes gored with spears, which were afterwards driven into the head. Parties went out in quest of the murderers as soon as the melancholy information reached the contiguous settlements; who will, it is to be hoped, fall in will this desperate horde of wanton assassins. From the account of the deserters from Hunter's River who have been reduced to the necessity of returning to that Settlement for the preservation of their lives from the fury of the natives, it may evidently be implied that a connexion or correspondence must subsist between the hordes in our vicinity, and those considerably to the northward, and that all within this circle of communication are determined upon the destruction of every white person that may unhappily fall into their power. We have heretofore experienced their savage cruelty indiscriminately satiating itself on the mother and the infant. Pardon, amity, and every effort to reconciliation, which to all appearence they received with gladness, have been perverted to the ends of a vile and most malignant treachery, whenever an occasion offered for the exercise of their natural ferocity, which is the same on every part of the coast we are acquainted with. An unrelaxed spirit of hostility is the undeviating feature in their characterisic. If the exhausted mariner attempt to quench his thirst upon their inhospitable shores, he flies or falls beneath their sullen vengeance; while the nearer tribes, to whose incursions our settlements are exposed, are tendered formidable by the facility of retreat, and the difficulty of penetrating into their concealments. They no longer act in small predatory parties, as heretofore, but now carry the appearance of an extensive combination, in which all but the few who remain harmless in the settlements, are united, in a determination to do all the harm they can. In self defence we can alone find safety; and the vengeance they provoke, will, it may yet be hoped, however mildly it may be exerted, reduce them to the necessity of adopting less offensive habits.’247 Directory: docs docs -> Application for acem docs -> Observational Assessment of Teaching Practices Teaching Assessment Initiative Proposal Submitted to The Teachers for a New Era project docs -> Traditional British values docs -> From Warfighters to Crimefighters: The Origins of Domestic Police Militarization docs -> Borzoi Club of America Register of Merit Program I. What is a Register Of Merit docs -> Protecting the rights of the child in the context of migration docs -> United Nations E/C. 12/Esp/5 docs -> 9th May 1950 the schuman declaration docs -> Getting To Outcomes® in Services for Homeless Veterans 10 Steps for Achieving Accountability Download 3.05 Mb. Share with your friends:
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