Appellation of Superintendent of the Police at Sydney, I have appointed Mr D’Arcy Wentworth, the present Acting Principal Surgeon, whose long residence in the Country gave him so full a Knowledge of the Persons and Characters of the Inhabitants as rendered him particularly well qualified for the Situation…He has merited my fullest Approbation and that of the Public. In 1814, Macquarie set up the Native Institute for the Education of Indigenous Children, and appointed D’Arcy Wentworth to the committee of management. Wentworth had the respect and trust of the Aboriginal people in Sydney, they could take their grievances to him as Police Magistrate and could look to him for support and redress. Peter Cunningham, a Scot who made four trips to the Colony as ship’s surgeon, before settling in the Hunter Valley, observed:all the Natives around Sydney understand English well, & speak it too, so as to be understood by the residents. The Billingsgate slang they certainly have acquired in perfection, & no white need think of competing with them in abuse or hard swearing, a constant torrent of which flows from their mouths as long as their antagonist remains before them; it is no use for him to reply, his words being quickly drowned in the roar of cursings & contemptuous appellations. I have stood for a considerable time witnessing contests of this kind, our Native satyrs invariably forcing their opponents to retrograde, while the instant blacky perceived whity beating a retreat, he vociferates after him—“Go along you dam rascal; go along you dam scoundrel; go along you dam blackguard” exalting his voice as the enemy retires. But should this volley of abuse provoke “white fellow” to run up and threaten to strike him, “blacky” would dare him to the scratch, threaten him with Jail & Massa Wenta (Mr Wentworth) if he attempted it. The Rum Hospital One of Wentworth’s achievements was the construction of new hospital for Sydney. In 1806, Governor Bligh reported the wooden hospital at Dawes Point, that arrived on the Second Fleet, was rotten and decayed, not worth rep’g, and the other hospitals were in a ruinous state. Macquarie confirmed this in his first despatch to London: there will be an absolute necessity for building a new general hospital as soon as possible. It was necessary to provide a proper place of reception, and more secure detention of the sick, and of moving it to