PPING RETURN. Outwards from the Harbour of Port Jackson, in His Majesty's 12th day of August, 1806, and the 31st day of December 20 Nantucket Obh. Mitchell.. 622 20 41 Prize Vulture. Thos. Folger 312 14 30 ther & Co. 500 barrels sperm oil Coast 215 1024 Dartmouth & Co. 100 " 24 Sydney. Sydney. Ballast. Fishing " London Hu. Co. 58 tons sperm oil Wm. Osbourne 60 tons coals, 3,000 ft. oak China Prize .. Campbell & Co.. Ballast. 1807 3 Jan. Promissory. notes. Captain 19 Jan. PROCLAMATION. 3rd January, 1807. WHEREAS by the General Orders dated the 1st of November, 1806,* By command of His Excellency, E. GRIFFIN, Secretary. GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL ORDER. Government House, Sydney, 3rd January, 1807. LIEUTENANT John Putland, of His Majesty's ship Porpoise, is appointed to act as Commander of that ship during Captain Short's absence, who proceeds to England in His Majesty's ship Buffalo. GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL ORDER. Government House, Sydney, 19th January, 1807. Government IT is directed that none of the Government bullocks, carts, draught cattle. waggons, or teams shall be used in any private employ whatsoever; and it is further ordered that they are on no account to work on Saturdays or Sundays without positive orders from His Excellency, or some person authorised by him. *Ante, p. 198. + Under date 18th November, 1807, all persons were prohibited from receiving or paying any note of hand which had not the words "sterling money," expressed, under penalty of both payer and receiver forfeiting double the amount of the note-Abridgment of Estab lished General Orders, Sydney, 1808, p. 15. Captain Short was sent Home under an arrest. He was brought before a Court-Martial on his arrival in England on charges formulated by Lieutenant Tetley (his first lieutenant) Short was honorably acquitted; in fact, the Court, after delivering judgment, addressed the Admiralty in his behalf, and requested that as he had been put to great expense and trouble, and had been deprived for a long time of his ship, some suitable and lucrative employment should be found for him. He was shortly afterwards engaged in connection with the Sea Fencibles. Lieutenant Tetley-apparently at the instigation of Mrs. Blighmade a sworn statement to the effect that in bringing his charges against Short he had not been instigated by Governor Bligh. There can, however, be little doubt as to which party would receive Bligh's sympathies (if not his aid and co-operation). In 1814 we find a Captain Joseph Short in charge of a company of the 2nd Battalion of Royal Marines serving on the lakes in Canada, where he was wounded and forced to return to England. On the 7th June, 1815, the Admiralty informed Short that, in consequence of the report of the surgeons on the state of his wound, they had decided to allow him a pension of £100 per annum. GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL Order. 1807 20 Jan The salt Government House, Sydney, 20th January, 1807. NOTICE is hereby given that, from the date hereof, all persons are forbid going near the Government salt-pans in Rose Bay; or any pans. person or persons coming there by water or landing near the said premises (unless with an order signed by His Excellency, and addressed to E. Kinsela, the manager of the salt-works), shall be taken into custody and imprisoned in the county gaol. And all persons coming to the said salt-pans with orders are severely prohibited from entering the salt-house, unless by permission and in the presence of the said E. Kinsela. ADDRESS OF HAWKESBURY SETTLERS TO BLIGH. Hawkesbury, New South Wales, 29th January, 1807. To His Excellency William Bligh, Esq., F.R.S., Captain-General and Commander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's territory of New South Wales and its dependencies, &c. May it please your Excellency, 29 Jan. address. We, the undersigned, holders of landed estates and principal inhabi- A congratu tants of the Hawkesbury, Portland, Richmond, and Nepean settlements, latory and other adjacent places in this colony, beg leave most respectfully to return our grateful thanks for the unbounded attention, labours, and pains your Excellency in your great wisdom has ever manifested towards us, and the general welfare and prosperity of this extensive colony at large, in the dreadful crisis of general calamity in which you found it. the Govern ment. And we, from the highest sense of gratitude and public duty, beg leave to assure your Excellency, while enjoying our native laws and liberty and living under a just and benign government, we will be ready at all times, at the risque of our lives and property, lawfully to support the same; and willing to anticipate your Excellency's just and humane wishes for the public relief, we have subscribed all the grain we can possibly spare from our own support to be Grain carried to the public store at your stipulated price, rejecting far greater prices furnished to in money which we could receive from the present market sale; and we hope the quantity subscribed (with more that probably may be spared) will furnish your Excellency with means for the present year's support without reverting to the ruinous necessity of importation, which your Excellency in your wisdom and penetration so justly sees and sets forth. And as these fertile settlements has ever furnished a superabundance of food, which is evident from the low prices it sold at, and the great surplus and quantities annually spoiled, wasted, and wilfully destroyed; and we doubt Lot, under the blessing of God and your wise measures, that the produce of our lands next season will again be more than abundantly sufficient for the fullest support of the whole territory, and in which case we will as readily supply such quantities as your Excellency may require at your fixed price of next season, and every endeavour to show ourselves worthy of your encouragement and protection. Praying for your prosperity and a long continuance of your just and benign government. [Signed by 156 persons.†] See the General Order of 20th December. 1806, ante, pp. 221, 222. The meeting at which this address was adopted was held at the house of Andrew Thompson.-Sydney Gazette, 8th February, 1807. + Thomas Arndell, Thos. Hobby, Lazarus Graves, Joseph Kerswell, Andrew Thompson, Grorge Crossley, Robt. Martin, Owen Tierney, Edward Pugh, John Dight, Robt. Campbell, Lawrence May, Patrick Connolly, Rich. Allwright, Chas. Palmer, John Palmer, Elizabeth Burne, Thos. Matcham Pitt, Rebecca Cox, George Hall, Paul Randall, William Addy, Wm. Cummings, Wm. Field, Wm. Rouse, M. Everingham, Henry Stockfish, Thos. Appledore, and 128 others. 1807 - Jan. Provisions for Collins at the Derwent. THE RIGHT HON. W. WINDHAM TO GOVERNOR BLigh. Sir, Downing-street, January, 1807.* Since closing my despatches to you of the 30th ult'o.,† I have received three letters from Lieut.-Governor Collins, dated the 17th and 25th of June, and the 2nd of Aug't last, in which he states that the settlement under his care has been so much neglected that he has been under the necessity of reducing the ration of provisions; also that the provisions sent to him from Port Jackson and Norfolk Island had been of the worst possible quality. He acknowledges that previously to the 17th of June he had rec'd a quantity of salted pork from Port Jackson, and a proportion of the articles consigned to him from England by the ship William Pitt; but he adds that intimation had been given him that he might expect a small supply of flour and barley meal, but that no vessel had reached Hobart Town on the 2nd of August following with that supply. On referring to the correspondence in this office respecting the settlement at Hobart Town, I find that Lieut.-Governor Collins Collins at left England in April, 1803, with instructions to settle the people Port Phillip, who accompanied him at Port Phillip, in Bass's Straits, but with Food in discretionary power to fix on any other part of the coast of New South Wales in preference, provided he should do so with the concurrence and approbation of Gov'r King, to whom copies of the instructions were forwarded, and he (Gov'r King) was at the same time apprized that the new settlements were to be considered as dependencies upon his gov't, also that the Lieut.-Government was to be placed under his orders. It further appears that Lieut.Governor Collins found Port Phillip to be deficient in many of the requisites for a settlement, and therefore fixed his establishment on the river Derwent, with the concurrence and approbation of Governor King, who had before formed a small settlement there under the charge of Lieut. Bowen, of the Navy. In January, 1805, Governor King it appears informed the Secretary of State that Lieut.-Governor Collins had at that time 45 weeks flour and 35 weeks salt meat, and that as soon as a convenient opportunity offered, it was his (Gov'r King's) intention to compleat the salt provisions to a due proportion with the flour, of which there was sufficient to last until Oct'r, 1805, before which period he expected supplies from England. Gov'r King at the same time enclosed the copy of a letter which he had written to Lieut.-Governor Collins informing him that his report on the subject of a survey of flour and other provisions, and calculation of time they would last, had set his, the Governor's, mind at ease, but that he should not, notwithstanding, neglect any opportunity The duplicate copy in the London Record Office, from which the text is taken, merely bears date January, 1807. It was probably sent by either the Young William or the Duke of Portland which sailed from England, in company, in February, 1807. + Ante, p. 224. See the letter of 17th June, ante, p. 94. 1807 Jan. that might offer of adding to the stores of provisions at Hobart Town, observing that he could not but approve of his reasons for directing that the wheat carried on speculation should be purchased, notwithstanding the Sophia, which carried his letter, had three weeks provisions on board for 26 female convicts, the overplus of which was to be delivered to the Dep'y Comm'y. In a dispatch from Gov'r King, dated the 30th of April, 1805, after stating that the quantity of wheat remaining in the colony was equal to 57 weeks consumption, and that no further supply of grain or flour could Abundance be required from England, observes that at Hobart Town there was flour and wheat to last till Jan'y, 1806, and at Port Dalrymple to last to the middle of August, and he adds that as further supplies of grain were on their way, shipped by individuals at their own risk, to be delivered into Government stores, those settlements would undergo no reduction in their full rations. of grain. In July, 1805, Governor King states that by a late opportunity Salt meat. he had sent a small supply of salt meat to Lieut. Governor Collins, and that the Buffalo was then refitting in order to proceed to Norfolk Island to take a further proportion of grain and such pork as might be ready salted, to proceed with it to Port Dalrymple and to the Derwent. He adds that the remains of the salt pork did not exceed 64 weeks for the people victualled from the stores, including the supplies he should necessarily send to the Derwent, Port Dalrymple, &c., and, therefore, suggests the propriety of a supply being sent out. from The last cited letter from Governor King was received on the Supplies 15th April, 1806. Two ships had in the meantime sailed from England. Europe with provisions and stores, as stated in the margin,* and would probably have arrived in March or April; indeed, it appears from Lieut.-Governor Collins's letter that one (the William Pitt) had reached Port Jackson about this time. Hobart Town. I need not state to you that stores and provisions to a consider- Relief for able amount were also sent out by the Lady Magdalena Sinclair and the Porpoise, and I entertain no doubt but that you will have availed yourself of the ample means at your disposal to relieve Lieut. Governor Collins from the difficulties and embarrassment of which he complains, and which must, I take for granted, have been occasioned by some accidental cause which he does not state. † tions. In L't-Gov'r Collins's letter, dated 2nd August, he encloses a Extravagant demand for hospital supplies, many of the articles specified in requisiwhich appear very far indeed to exceed the probable occasion for them. He requires, for instance, 400 gals. of wine, a quantity exceeding 6 hogsheads, and he at the same time states there is not a man sick in the hospital. * The margin is blank. The ships were probably the William Pitt and the Atlantic. + See King's statement of stores, &c., forwarded to Hobart Town, post, p. 386. |