'Chapter III - Tragic Controversy: The Arthur Regime. Up to 1829', pages 71 - 111. This chapter gives an account of the events during the time that Sir George Arthur was Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land.

Individuals, subject matter and locations include:

• Colonel George Arthur
  
  
• Lord Bathurst
  
  
• Mr WE Lawrence
  
  
• William Young
  
  
• Colonel Sorell
  
  
• Mr Deputy-Surveyor-General Evans
  
  
• Joseph Steele
  
  
• John Burnett
  
  
• Chas. Rowcroft
  
  
• Horatio Rowcroft
  
  
• Mosquito
  
  
• Thomas Wells
  
  
• John Harling
  
  
• William Knight
  
  
• William Bryan
  
  
• Richard Butler Bryan
  
  
• Chas. B. Baldwin
  
  
• Under-Secretary Hay
  
  
• Malcolm Laing Smith
  
  
• Mr Chapman
  
  
• John Dry
  
  
• Richard Dry
  
  
• John Wrigley
  
  
• William Welladvice
  
  
• Archibald Thomson
  
  
• Mr Harte
  
  
• Viscount Goderich (Lord Goderich)
  
  
• John Edward White (witness at Risdon Cove on 3 May 1804)
  
  
• Lieutenant Moore
  
  
• James Hobbes [sic]
  
  
• William Huskisson
  
  
• Little George
  
  
• Jemmy
  
  
• Sarah Hodgkinson
  
  
• Captain Henry Waterhouse
  
  
• "Black Jack"
  
  
• Dumont d'Urville
  
  
• William Gwilym Walker
  
  
• Hobart Town
  
  
• British Honduras
  
  
• New South Wales
  
  
• Norwood
  
  
• Bothwell
  
  
• Launceston
  
  
• Allenvale
  
  
• Deloraine
  
  
• Glenora
  
  
• Swan Port
  
  
• Pitt Water
  
  
• Brighton
  
  
• New Norfolk
  
  
• Jericho
  
  
• Ross
  
  
• Risdon
  
  
• Preservation Island
  
  
• Land grants
  
  
• Survey Department
  
  
• Tasmanian State Archives
  
  
• Military Districts
  
  
• Field Police
  
  
• Sealers