ABSTRACT
MACQUARIE'S position was a difficult one, for, before enforcing the essentials of the policy of 1804, he had to reconstruct the society of the colony and eradicate the impress of the military section. Macquarie had received his instructions from Castlereagh, who was practical enough to realize that the Governor's 73rd Regiment of Highlanders would probably be a more useful aid to settlement than any theory of Downing Street.1 But, in 1811 Castlereagh was replaced by Liverpool, who revived the old economy motif and who desired one thing only, 'the strictest attention to economy in every department' .2
