was its instigator* and in a publislied letter, which may be] seen in the British Mnseam/^ they warned liim not to
- pret^ume to expect to pollute the holy and immortal cause
of hberty by the association of his name with those of its purest defenders. He knows well, and it is meet that the world at large should know, that upon the justest grounds , he stands a man rejected and expelled from our society." ] They petitioned for an inquiry in Sydney p Muir, it appears, was not on good terms with Palmer until the latter was imjn8tl3vaccused, but then warmly took] his part. Margarot seems to have ehided inquiry. Grose declined to investigate the matter, and released Palmer and Skirving, telling them that they would receive e%^ery indul- gence that in their unfortunate situation could be con- sistently granted, and in Palmer's narrative we read — ** All idea of our trial was soon given up, AYe had houses appointed to us contiguous to each other, and myself, Slnrving, and Mr. Miih' have no cause to complain of any w^ant of civility or attention. Ifargarot wrote a pompous ' letter to Grose, demanding his release on the ground that his sentence was fullilled on his arrival in Sydney. Grose told him that **he might rest assured I have not the] smallest doubt, neither shall I have the least hesitation, of forcing as much good order from you as from any other l^risoner in the place." Although the '* Reminiscences of Glasgow'* state that Mrs. Margarot died of grief when her husband was banished, all these records about her still exist, and in July 1801 Margarot applied for the advantages of a fi'ee settler for ( her, alleging that she "came here in the ship Siirprige in the year 1794;" but Governor King merely indorsed the application — **Mr. Margarot respecting his wife." Collins records that all "the gentlemen who came from Scotland in the Snrpn^e were pleased with the brick huts^ set apart for them l)y Grose, and soon "'declared that they | had found sufficient reason for thinking their situations not quite so terrible as in England they had been taught to expect*" '* **A Narmtive of the SufferitigB of T, F. PiUuter and W. .Skirvuig ] till ring a Voyage to New South Wales, 171)4/* by thu Rev. T. F. Pttlmer, late of Queen's College, Canibritlge. 1797.
