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This document, signed by George IV as Prince Regent, and by the former Prime Minister Lord Sidmouth as Home Secretary, relates to Matthias Maher (1798-1865), a Royal Navy officer who was twice tried at the Old Bailey on a charge of forgery. On the first occasion, 6 May 1818, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity; and removed to the criminal asylum in St George's Fields. Maher was found sound of mind as the present document reveals by Sir George Leman Tuthill (1772 1835) and Edward Wright (c.1788-1859), the latter to die of disgrace in Australia. He was tried a second time on 15 September 1819, when he was convicted and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to transportation for life, and he left England on the Earl St Vincent on 12 April 1820, arriving in Australia on 16 August 1820. In Australia Mathias served as a Constable in D Arcy Wentworth s police force at Parroquet Hill, helping to suppress the Parramatta bushrangers. 2pp, foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Folded twice. Good firm signature of the Prince Regent at head of first page: 'George P R.' Above this, in a small hand: 'In the Name and on the Behalf of His Majesty.' Royal Seal under paper in left-hand margin of first page. Signed at end of document by the former Prime Minister Lord Sidmouth, now Home Secretary: 'Sidmouth'. Beneath this, at the foot of the second page: 'Receid 7 August 1819 the body of the abovenamed Matthias Maher | W. E. Hardy, for Mr Brown Keeper of Newgate'. (William Erasmus Hardy (c.1773-1838) was 'clerk of the papers in the gaol of Newgate'.) Forty-line document, in a secretarial hand, addressed 'To Our Trusty and Wellbeloved The Right Worshipful The Resident and Treasurer and the Worshipful The Governors of Bethlem Hospital.' The document begins: 'Whereas at a Sessions holden at the Old Bailey on the 6th day of May 1818 Matthias Maher stood Indicted for several Felonies and Forgeries, and upon [his] Arraignment thereon, was found by [a] Jury, lawfully Impannelled for the purpose to be Insane, so that he could not be tried upon the said Indictment, and was therefore [ ] ordered to be kept in strict Custody, in Our Gaol of Newgate until Our Pleasure should be known. [ ]' The document states that on 14 May 1818 Maher was 'removed to the Building erected in St. George's Fields, in the County of Surrey, situate on the side of Bethlem Hospital, for the better Care and Custody of Insane Persons charged with or Convicted of Criminal Offences', and that 'George L. Tuthill Esqr, M.D. and Edward Wright Esqr M.D.' have now certified that 'Maher is become Sane'. At foot of first page and endorsed on reverse of second leaf: 'Warrant to remove Matthias Maher back to the Gaol of Newgate from the Criminal Lunatic Asylum in St. George's Fields.' From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.

Four 1799 Parliamentary Acts Relating to Penal Transportation to Australia [Australia]. [Transporation]. An Act for Making Perpetual So Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty. An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to the Transportation, Imprisonment, And Other Punishments of Certain Offenders, As Relates to the Punishment of Burning in the Hand of Certain Persons Convicted of Felony within the Benefit of Clergy [drop-head title]. [London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1799]. [437]-438, [2] pp. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. [With] An Act for Making Perpetual so Much of an Act Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-Four, Videlicet, On the Twenty-Sixth Day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Eight, Intituled, An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to Transportation, Imprisonment, And of the Punishment of Certain Offenders, As Relates to the Lodgings of Judges at County Assizes [drop-head title]. [London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1799]. [441]-442, [2] pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. [And] An Act for Continuing, Until the Twenty-Fifth Day Of March One Thousand Eight Hundred And Two, Several Laws Relating to the Transportation of Felons and Other Offenders to Temporary Places of Confinement in England and Scotland Respectively [drop-head title]. [London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1799]. [461]-462, [2] pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. [And] An Act for Continuing, Until the Twenty-Fifth Day of March One Thousand eight hundred and two, So Much of an Act, Made in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty, Chapter Seventy-Four. Videlicit, On the the Twenty-Sixth Day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Eight, Intituled, An Act to Explain and Amend the Laws Relating to the Transportation, Imprisonment, And Other Punishments of Certain Offenders, As Relates to Penitentiary Houses [drop-head title]. [London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1799]. [465]-466, [2] pp. Second leaf blank. Woodcut arms of Great Britain above title. Four disbound items, 12-1/2" x 8." Light toning and edgewear, light soiling to edges, small chi.

together 7 items Ilustrador. together 7 items. Parliamentary Documents Relating to the Penal Colony of Van Dieman's Land and New South Wales, 1839-1855 [Australia]. [Transportation]. [Van Dieman's Land]. Van Dieman's Land. Copies of Despatches from the Lieutenant-Governor of Van Dieman's Land, Relative to Transportation and the Assignment of Convicts. [London]: Ordered, By the House of Commons, To be Printed, 12 August 1839. 4 pp. [With] An Act for the Government of New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land [30th July 1842]. [Running title]. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1842. [833]-850 pp. [And] An Act to Explain and Amend the Act for the Government of New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land [6th August 1844]. [Running title]. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1842. [577]-580 pp. [And] South Australia. Convicts (Van Dieman's Land). Copies of All the Correspondence Between Any Person or Persons Interested in South Australia and the Colonial Office, Respecting the Effect Upon that Province of the Official Notice of the Comptroller General of Van Dieman's Land, Of the 21st Day of June 1845, Relative to Convicts in that Colony Who were Holders of Conditional Pardons. [London]: Ordered, By the House of Commons, To be Printed, 26 August 1846. 9. [1] pp. [And] Transportation. (Van Dieman's Land.) Copy of a Communication upon the Subject of Transportation, Addressed to Earl Grey by the Lord Bishop of Tasmania. (Viscount Mahon.) [London]: Ordered, By the House of Commons, To be Printed, 23 July 1847. 11, [1] pp. [And] Van Dieman's Land. Copies of Despatches, With Their Enclosures, Relating to the Cases of Mr. Justice Montagu and Chief Justice Pedder, With Other Documents. [London]: Ordered, By the House of Commons, To be Printed, 29 July 1848. 112, [2] pp. [And] An Act to Enable Her Majesty to Assent to a Bill, As Amended, Of the Legislature of New South Wales, "To Confer a Constitution on New South Wales, And to Grant a Civil List to Her Majesty [16th July 1855]. [Running title]. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, 1855. [401]-422 pp. 7 items in all ranging in size from 12" x 7-1/2" to 13" x 8." Disbound, moderate toning, occasional edgewear, 4 items have small library marking of the Netherlands Foreign Office, Van Dieman's Land.

Disbound. Condición: Very good condition. First printing. A rare and important British Blue Paper, illustrating Governor Macquarie's early years. The report published in 1812 was the result of a report by a Parliamentary Select Committee to explore the future of transportation of convicts to New South Wales, a system that had operated for almost 25 years. It includes a complete transcript of evidence given by many important witnesses, including former Governor John Hunter, former Governor William Bligh, Scottish Martyr Maurice Margarot, Matthew Flinders, First Fleet chaplain Richard Johnson, and many other colonial officials. Extracts from several of Macquarie's early dispatches are included. The report is a document of great significance in the early history of Australia. It is the first major document from the Macquarie era. It endorsed the existing system of transportation and "the liberal views of the present Governor", and became the foundation for Macquarie's program of civil and administrative improvement. Ferguson, 543; Wantrup, 3; Trove Libraries Australia ID 4191118. Foolscap folio, 117pp (last blank). [Parliamentary papers / House of Commons] ; no. 341; Disbound from a compilation, lacking the original blue wrappers, with later brown paper wrappers which have tanned the title and last page. Internally, a bright clean copy of a very scarce piece of Australiana.