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Macarthur saw this as a slight, and tried to organise a petty social boycott of Governor King and when his superior, Colonel Paterson, refused to cooperate Macarthur used personal material to try and blackmail him.
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Macarthur and tried
Johnston appointed Charles Grimes, the Surveyor-General, as Judge-Advocate and ordered Macarthur and the six officers be tried ; they were found not guilty.
Bligh was to be reinstated for 24 hours, then recalled to England, Johnston sent to England for court martial, and Macarthur tried in Sydney.
Macarthur was not tried but was refused permission to return to NSW until 1817, since he would not admit his wrongdoing.
One year later, when Macarthur reached England, the courts ruled that the matter should be tried in Sydney, where all the evidence and witnesses were.
Bligh cancelled a lease Macarthur held for some government land that Bligh wanted to use and Macarthur tried to prevent Bligh taking hold of it.
Macarthur was never tried, and apart from the exile, was not punished for his involvement in the Rum Rebellion.
Macarthur and Governor
The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded European settlement in Australia.
Governor Macquarie reinstated all the officials who had been sacked by Johnston and Macarthur and cancelled all land and stock grants that had been made since Bligh's deposition, though to calm things down he made grants that he thought appropriate and prevented any revenge.
* Evatt, H. V., Rum Rebellion: A Study Of The Overthrow Of Governor Bligh By John Macarthur And The New South Wales, 1943.
He became a bitter enemy of Governor Ralph Darling and the exclusives, led by the wealthy grazier John Macarthur and his friends.
* H. V. Evatt, Rum Rebellion: A Study of the Overthrow of Governor Bligh by John Macarthur and the New South Wales Corps, 1943
In the Rum Rebellion of 1808, the Corps, working closely with the newly established wool trader John Macarthur, staged the only successful armed takeover of government in Australian history, deposing Governor William Bligh and instigating a brief period of military rule in the colony prior to the arrival from Britain of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810.
Although the economy had developed and diversified somewhat by 1806, Governor Bligh arrived determined to bring the Corps, and especially John Macarthur, to heel and stop their trading in rum.
As Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808.
In July 1801, Governor King overturned a sentence of one year's imprisonment for Lieutenant James Marshall of the Earl Cornwallis, who had been convicted of assaulting Macarthur and Captain Abbott during their investigation into a theft.
Governor King had Macarthur arrested then released him and appointed him as commandant on Norfolk Island to try and defuse things.
On this same vessel, Governor Hunter had sent a ' very bulky ' dispatch, denouncing Macarthur.
Governor King had declared while Macarthur was in London that, " if Captain Macarthur returns here in any official character, it should be that of Governor, as one-half the colony already belongs to him, and it will not be long before he gets the other half.
In 1797, Macarthur purchased a portion of a small flock of Spanish merinos imported from the Cape Colony by Captain Waterhouse, a Royal Navy officer who had been despatched to the Cape by Governor Hunter to obtain ‘ live cattle ’.
Piper supported John Macarthur in the struggle between the New South Wales Corps and Governor King, and acted as his second in a duel with Colonel Paterson, his commanding officer.
On 26 January 1808, there was a military rebellion against Governor Bligh led by John Macarthur.
* 26 June-HMS Reliance arrives in Sydney from the Cape of Good Hope, carrying stores ordered by Governor Hunter and merino sheep imported by John Macarthur.
Macarthur and King
John Macarthur ( who had been sent back from Australia to England following a duel with Colonel Patterson ) brought seven rams and one ewe from the first dispersal sale of King George III stud in 1804.
King, realising that this would be pointless, sending Macarthur to England for trial.
The Duke of York, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, rebuked King for failing to deal with the matter himself, but confirmed that King's orders releasing Macarthur and transferring him to Norfolk Island stood.
Macarthur and when
Oxley denied that he had been a partisan of Macarthur when Bligh was deposed, but his letters show that he was on very intimate terms with the rebel leader.
In 1812 he became engaged to Elizabeth Macarthur ; this was broken off when her father discovered the extent of Oxley's debts.
He failed to receive support in England when he sent an accused officer John Macarthur back to face a court-martial.
Cattle grazing near Parliament House was a common occurrence, something which amazed General Macarthur when he visited Canberra during World War II.
Macarthur refused to comply and the ship was seized when it returned.
This trial led to the so-called Rum Rebellion, when the officers of the NSW Corps, who had been assigned to the court, sided with Macarthur and his allies: as a consequence, Bligh was overthrown by the Corps in a military coup on 26 January.
Macarthur and Paterson
Paterson sent Johnston and Macarthur to England for trial, and confined Bligh to the barracks until he signed a contract agreeing to return to England.
This resulted in Paterson challenging Macarthur to a duel in which Paterson was severely wounded in the shoulder.
Macarthur and refused
Macarthur refused to comply and demanded a court martial by his fellow officers.
In December 1807 Bligh had an order issued for Macarthur to appear before the courts, which Macarthur refused to obey and subsequently was arrested and bailed for a trial on 25 January 1808.
Macarthur and used
Although claims are made by some that the Seven Hills Farm exclusively was used by the Macarthurs for the breeding of their merino flocks, this is clearly not the case as the documentary evidence of the Macarthur papers shows that their Merino rams were paddocked at " Elizabeth Farm " at Parramatta.
It is also used increasingly to refer to the Macarthur region which includes the local government areas of Camden Council, Campbelltown City Council and Wollondilly Shire Council.
During the next five years Macarthur used his spare time to travel, read, and perhaps contemplate a future at the bar.
The Fairfield High School building is also used for adult education classes through Macarthur Community College.
Macarthur Park used Coyne Street, Jackie Howe Crescent, Merriman Crescent and Carson Street to form the circuit and the undulating nature of the course made it one of the most attractive road courses in south-east Australia.
Macarthur and him
However, not long after, he also received addresses from the free and freed settlers of Sydney and the Hawkesbury River region, with a total of 369 signatures, many made only with a cross, complaining that Macarthur did not represent them, as they blamed him for withholding sheep so as to raise the price of mutton.
Macarthur objected to Atkins being fit to sit in judgement of him because he was his debtor and inveterate enemy.
The Biography of Early Australia dismisses Macarthur's complaints as ridiculous and quotes Evatt as saying that legally Macarthur was guilty of two out of the three charges brought against him including sedition.
Grose came to depend on Macarthur's administrative skills and appointed him as paymaster for the regiment and as superintendent of public works, which Macarthur resigned in 1796 to concentrate on his business and farming interests.
As reported much later by Macarthur, Bligh said to him in a conversation at Government House ; " What have I to do with your sheep, sir?
Macarthur was sent to England where he remained for eight and half years to avoid an arrest warrant for him in Sydney.
He married in 1843 Emmeline Emily, third daughter of John Macarthur, who survived him without issue, linked him to the colonial establishment.
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