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where his opponent was Charles Cowper.

James Macarthur lived in

the district, but decided not to stand there because he thought

that if he left the electorate to Therry there would be no division

1. S M H , 5 January 1843.

2. I b i d ., 27 January, 23 May, 16 June 1843.

3. I b i d ., 6, 10 January 1843. At the same time the Australasian Chronicle was doing its best to support Therry*s candidature; see Australasian Chronicle 17, 28 January 1843.

amongst Catholics and P r o t e s t a n t s in what was judged to be a s t r on g l y Catholic e l e c t o r a t e . Macarthur had not only h i s own opinion to go on i n t h i s , but he was also t o l d by h i s br o t h er William t h a t even Cowper thought t h a t I r i s h Catholic inf l uence

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would predominate i n Camden. Despite t h i s Cowper stood against 2

Therry and he was defeated by ten votes. He then stood against

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Macarthur i n Cumberland and won the s e a t .

Therry remained an unwelcome addition to the Council in the eyes of the Her ald, d es p i t e the f a c t t h a t he won i t s applause by conducting and winning the f i r s t prosecution i n New South Wales f o r an obscene p u b l i c a t i o n , whilst at the same time d i r e c t i n g h i s

campaign f o r Camden. Three gentlemen published a document known as the S a t i r i s t which contained * a supposed dialogue between a

number of lewd women, of a most obscene and d i s g u s t i n g d e s c r i p t i o n 1 i n which the_ al leged s e c r e t s of the b r ot hel were reveal ed. The

e d i t o r , Thomas Revel Johnson, was given two years and h is a s s o c i a t e s twelve months f o r t h e i r l i t e r a r y e f f o r t s , whilst the lament was

r a i s e d t h a t ‘This brands us more deeply than ever with the odium of Botany Bay d e p r a v i t y . . . the d i r e c t e f f e c t [of which] must be to discourage immigration to our shores [from] vi r t uous England*. '

The Sydney e l e c t i o n on 15 June was marked by *mild r i o t s '

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and the loss of one l i f e . I n Port P h i l l i p the only noteworthy f e a t u r e , apart from a r i o t , was the e l e c t i o n of Lang, and the defeat of Major Mitchell who, to g e t h e r with Charles Windeyer, was the other public servant r e j e c t e d by the e l e c t o r a t e . Therry was,

1. William Macarthur to James Macarthur, 28 December 1842, Macarthur Papers, vol. 38» ML.

2. 'Well dune, honest men of Camdeni* said the A u s t r a l a s i a n Chronicle, 27 June 1843.

3. SMH, 27 June, 4 Jul y 1843. 4. I b i d . , 17, 19 April 1843.

grounds that since he h a d been beaten in an election he could not act 'as a N o m i n e e of the Crown, either with advantage to the

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P u blic or satisfaction to himself*. By 8 J u l y W e n t w o r t h was already styling himself 'The H o n o u r a b l e ' , an appellation judged as * an absurdity so egregious that we trust we may not have any

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T h e n e w L e g i slative Council met for the election of a speaker on 1 August. D o w l i n g had applied for the speakership, but had b een refused it by Gipps who did not nominate h i m to the Council. The two candidates were the elected member, A l e x a n d e r

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