027 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(027.jpg) Recto some time a resident and coho has become conversant with the peculiar customs of the country, especially if he has been a settler might perhaps become a fitting person as a Stipendiary Magistrate, his [succeedaneain] is seldom if ever resorted to , but [Tyro's] are ordered off in their [uniforms] and of course their sword to cut the Gordian knots of conflicting evidence, and all the niceties of legal distinctions which pursue our men of wisdom in old England - Some rumours have even bee afloat, attributing this scheme to [J. W. Bobbett], who has been so long labouring after political perfectibility, surmising that it is only an experiment on a small scale to ascertain how far the fences of civilised life may be broken down with impunity to admit his more [speedy] and efficacious political machinery - Whilst a sagacious Scotch woman remarked, that the pure things were only set up on high by the rulers as worrie-cows seeing that a late act of [Sessions] had taken awa their Scourges and their power over the [puir] folk. Military magistrates answer well for a mere penal settlement where order and due subordination can only be preserved by an act of the lush and a prompt application of it, and cohere from the clearest recepity, it is better that two innocent men should suffer, than a guilty one escape - but why continue such a bugbear in a country where the greater proportion of the population are free emigrants, and who have been induced to adopt this country as their own upon the representation of the home government that the institutions they leave behind will be found also in their [own] homes - The only efficient way in which military can be employed is as mounted police - They are and should be called Gendarmes - We have small bodies of these troops stationed in different parts of the country commanded generally by a [subaltern] officer of the regiments on duty in Sydney and it is in this instance, that their services are truly effective, [these] it is supposed out of delicacy to the feelings of the English emigrants are [designated] Mounted Police - but their powers are much the same as the Gendarmes. In a country like New South Wales where the forests are interminable and afford an immense shelter for desperadoes, the Mounted Police are the only body who SubjectNSWHunter ValleySettlerNew South Wales historyNSW historyAustralian historyMaitlandNew South WalesAustraliaDatenot specified

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