![[AUSTRALIA – RUM REBELLION] – WARRANT FOR THE COURT-MARTIAL OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL GEORGE JOHNSTON (1764-1823).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/CKS/2015_CKS_10457_0035_000(australia_rum_rebellion_warrant_for_the_court-martial_of_lieutenant_co101046).jpg?w=1)
細節
[AUSTRALIA – RUM REBELLION] – WARRANT FOR THE COURT-MARTIAL OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL GEORGE JOHNSTON (1764-1823).
Document addressed to the Right Honorable Charles Manners Sutton, Judge Advocate General of His Majesty’s Forces, Carlton House, 3 April 1811, laying out out the charge against Johnston, Major in His Majesty’s 102nd Regiment of Foot [New South Wales Corps], that ‘on or about the Twenty-sixth day of January 1808, at Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, [he did] begin, excite, cause, and join in a Mutiny, by putting himself at the head of the New South Wales Corps, then under his Command, and doing duty in the Colony, and seizing and causing to be seized and arrested, and imprisoning and causing to be imprisoned, by means of the above mentioned Military force, the person of William Bligh, Esquire, then Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and over the Territory of New South Wales’ and continuing to set the details of the court-martial, counter-signed by Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby, ‘in the name and on behalf of His Majesty’. 3 pages, folio (367 x 240mm), bifolium, docket (lacking the signature of George IV as Prince Regent, the proclamation of his authority heading the document and his papered seal which have been excised, representing a loss of 1/4 of the frst leaf, weakened and beginning of splits at folds, central fold of second leaf and another 65mm split repaired).
THE COURT-MARTIAL FOR THE LEADER OF THE RUM REBELLION. The defining point in the colonial career of George Johnston, reputedly the first man ashore at Port Jackson in 1788, was to be his decision to depose William Bligh as lieutenant-governor of New South Wales on 26 January 1808, installing himself in the position and arresting Bligh. Perhaps an inevitable end to the tensions that had developed between Bligh, appointed as governor in August 1806, and the officers of the New South Wales Corps and their allies, the rebellion – named for the liquor from whose prohibited sale the Corps profited – was led by Johnston, commander of the Corps, and the ex-soldier and businessman John Macarthur, whose trial for breach of port regulations precipitated the crisis. In January 1810, after a weary exile of more than a year aboard the Porpoise, mostly in the Derwent estuary outside Hobart, Bligh was finally returned to England, along with the New South Wales Corps, recalled permanently. Johnston was the only Rum rebel to be court-martialled – Macarthur having escaped punishment and trial entirely – but after the relatively mild punishment of being cashiered, was allowed a passage back to New South Wales in 1813 by the Colonial Office, who ordered that he be treated as ‘any other ordinary Settler’
Document addressed to the Right Honorable Charles Manners Sutton, Judge Advocate General of His Majesty’s Forces, Carlton House, 3 April 1811, laying out out the charge against Johnston, Major in His Majesty’s 102nd Regiment of Foot [New South Wales Corps], that ‘on or about the Twenty-sixth day of January 1808, at Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, [he did] begin, excite, cause, and join in a Mutiny, by putting himself at the head of the New South Wales Corps, then under his Command, and doing duty in the Colony, and seizing and causing to be seized and arrested, and imprisoning and causing to be imprisoned, by means of the above mentioned Military force, the person of William Bligh, Esquire, then Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and over the Territory of New South Wales’ and continuing to set the details of the court-martial, counter-signed by Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby, ‘in the name and on behalf of His Majesty’. 3 pages, folio (367 x 240mm), bifolium, docket (lacking the signature of George IV as Prince Regent, the proclamation of his authority heading the document and his papered seal which have been excised, representing a loss of 1/4 of the frst leaf, weakened and beginning of splits at folds, central fold of second leaf and another 65mm split repaired).
THE COURT-MARTIAL FOR THE LEADER OF THE RUM REBELLION. The defining point in the colonial career of George Johnston, reputedly the first man ashore at Port Jackson in 1788, was to be his decision to depose William Bligh as lieutenant-governor of New South Wales on 26 January 1808, installing himself in the position and arresting Bligh. Perhaps an inevitable end to the tensions that had developed between Bligh, appointed as governor in August 1806, and the officers of the New South Wales Corps and their allies, the rebellion – named for the liquor from whose prohibited sale the Corps profited – was led by Johnston, commander of the Corps, and the ex-soldier and businessman John Macarthur, whose trial for breach of port regulations precipitated the crisis. In January 1810, after a weary exile of more than a year aboard the Porpoise, mostly in the Derwent estuary outside Hobart, Bligh was finally returned to England, along with the New South Wales Corps, recalled permanently. Johnston was the only Rum rebel to be court-martialled – Macarthur having escaped punishment and trial entirely – but after the relatively mild punishment of being cashiered, was allowed a passage back to New South Wales in 1813 by the Colonial Office, who ordered that he be treated as ‘any other ordinary Settler’
榮譽呈獻
Eugenio Donadoni