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The following accounts were transcribed from the Sydney Gazette, 4th April 1828 :
“THE HONORABLE CHARLES THROSBY, ESQ.
“This Gentleman was an old Colonist. In the early stages of the Colony he was on the Civil Establishment as an Assistant Surgeon, and had the honour of being appointed to the Magistracy by His late Excellency Governor KING. Mr. Throsby was a very large grazier, and had amassed no inconsiderable wealth by his extraordinary and patriotic attention to the rearing of stock of a very superior quality. Several years ago he had the misfortune to become a surety to the amount of L5000, more or less, for his friend, the late GARNHAM BLAXCELL’ Esq. of well known celebrity in these Colonies, but had to flee the Country, from the effects of mercantile embarrassment, in April 1817. Proceedings of law were instituted against Mr. THROSBY, and only a few months ago, the affair was decided to his disadvantage, from which he intended to have appealed to the King in Council. This circumstance is supposed to have operated so powerfully on his mind, to have originated occasional mental aberration, in one of which fits, on the morning of Wednesday last, the lamented gentleman terminated his existence by means of a gun, at his country residence! Advices of the deplorable event reached town on the afternoon of Wednesday, and as people had scarcely recovered from the effects of another catastrophe that had occurred in the morning, the melancholy intelligence seemed to produce general petrifaction! Several Gentlemen have been summoned to afford the last token of respect and friendship by following the remains of the late Mr. THROSBY to the silent tomb which ceremony is to take place in course of this day, at Liverpool.
The demise of the Honorable CHARLES THROSBY, Esquire, who was a member of the Legislative Council, occasions a vacuum in that distinguished Body. By the 33d section of the 4th Geo. IV. c. 96. or the New South Wales Act, the authority to supply any vacancy in the Legislative Council, occasioned by death, absence, or permanent incapacity, is vested in the Governor for the time-being, so his EXCELLENCY will have to select, from amongst the Gentlemen in the Colony, a successor to the late Mr. THROSBY. Many are the conjectures afloat on this hand already. Some years ago, if we remember rightly, when adverting to the expediency of extending the Legislative Council, we felt it a public duty in stating that JOHN McARTHUR, Esq. might he, in such case, judicially created a member of Council, also to include Sir JOHN JAMISON, who, despite of the high opinion of the late Mr. THROSBY’S merit, we always thought entitled to superior consideration, so far so the landed interest of the country was affected; and we were more disposed to place sir JOHN JAMISON in the same consultation-chamber with the Hon. JOHN McARTHUR Esq., from a knowledge that the worthy Knight of Regent Ville would be a powerful counterpoise to the talents and ingenuity of his political opponent (Mr. McARTHUR). We are still of that opinion. If the vacancy were to be supplied from amongst the mercantile interest, there is but one Gentleman in town to whom the Public could point, and such being the fact, we need not mention the only merchant patting in “our mind’s eye.” But if it should be the policy of the Executive Authority to supply the late Mr. THROSBY’S post in the Australian Cabinet with one of the landed interest, there cannot be any great diversity of opinion as to the individual upon whom the distinguished honour should fall, whether possessions, rank, influence, or unintermitting and patriotic anxiety to promote the agricultural interest, be taken into consideration.”
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