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1786

24 Oct.

Assistant-
Surgeon.

31 Oct.

ASSISTANT-SURGEON BALMAIN'S COMMISSION.

George R.

George the Third, &c., to our trusty and well-beloved William
Balmain, gent., greeting:-

WE do, by these presents, constitute and appoint you to be
Assistant-Surgeon to the settlement within our territory called
New South Wales. You are, therefore, carefully and diligently
to discharge the duty of Assistant-Surgeon, by doing and per-
forming all and all manner of things thereunto belonging; and
you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from
time to time as you shall receive from our Governor of our said
territory for the time being, or any other your superior officer,
according to the rules and discipline of war.

Given at our Court at St. James's, the twenty-fourth day of
October, 1786, in the twenty-sixth year of our reign.
By his Majesty's command,

SYDNEY.

GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO SECRETARY STEPHENS.*

[London] October 31, 1786.

Sir, The Right Honorable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having ordered his Majesty's ship Sirius, under my command, to be supply'd with six caronades and four six-pounders, of the Sirius I am to request that you will please to move their Lordships to

Armament

3 Nov. Orders

from the Admiralty.

order ten more of the six-pounders to be put on board, with the
ironwork necessary for the cariages. Having the ironwork, the
guns can at any time be mounted, and may, I presume, in future
be of great use to us, on board or on shore, as the service may
require.
I have, &c.,

A. PHILLIP.

GOVERNOR PHILLIP TO SECRETARY STEPHENS. Sir, [London] November 3, 1786. I acknowledge the receipt of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty's orders for surveying and making the necessary observations in the different harbours, roads, &c.-the orders for salutes for bearing widows' menthe copy of the Act of Parliament for preventing abuses in the payment of seamen's wages, prize-money, &c.—abstracts of the said Act and orders, to affix them in a public place on board his Majesty's ship under my command, as likewise orders for receiving such additional stores and provisions as can be conveniently stored. Their Lordships' orders on these heads will be duly comply'd with. I have, &c., A. PHILLIP.

*This is the first of a series of letters written from London. Lieut. Philip Gidley King, of the Sirius, afterwards Governor of New South Wales, says in his journal :-"It was not till ye 11th of May [1787] that the Governor joined us, he having been detained in town until the Ministry had arranged and fixed the different orders, settling a number of things so incident to ye great voyage we were about to undertake."

1786

21 Nov.

THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY TO LORD SYDNEY. My Lord, Admiralty Office, 21st Nov., 1786. Your Lordship having, in your letter of the 31st August The last, acquainted us that it is his Majesty's pleasure a party of marines. marines, consisting of 160 private marines, with a suitable number of officers and non-commissioned officers, shall proceed to Botany Bay, on the coast of New South Wales, not only to enforce due subordination and obedience in the settlement intended to be formed there, but for the defence of the settlement against the incursion of the natives; and that they shall, immediately after their landing, be properly victualled by a commissary, and supply'd with such tools, implements, and utensils as may be necessary to render their situation comfortable during their continuance there -we beg leave to inform your Lordship that the marines, while they serve on board his Majesty's ships, are victualled in like manner as the seamen, without any deduction from their pay on that account, and do therefore humbly submit to his Majesty Their pay. whether any stoppage should be made from the pay of the marines going to Botany Bay upon the present occasion towards defraying the expence of the provisions with which they are to be supply'd by the Commissary while on shore.

And as it is usual when any regiments are sent upon service to his Majesty's colonies or plantations to allow them to take with them a certain number of women, we beg leave to propose that the wives of the marines going to Botany Bay, not exceeding ten to each Marines' company, which will not in the whole amount to more than forty wives. women, may be allowed to embark with them.

We are, &c.,
HOWE.

CHAS. BRETT.
RD. HOPKINS.

RATIONS provided for the Marines during their passage to Botany Rations for

Bay.

marines.

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Per week when on shore.-7 lb. of bread or 7 lb. of flour, 7 lb. of beef or 4 lb. of pork, 3 pints pease, 6 oz. butter, and 1 lb. flour or lb. rice.

1786

23 Nov.

Peruvian

bark.

2 Dec. Wine and

spirits for

SURGEON WORGAN TO GOVERNOR PHILLIP.

Sir, Sirius, Deptford, 23rd November, 1786. From the experienced utility of Peruvian bark in ships stationed on the coast of Guinea and in similar climates, it would seem a very necessary article in the present intended expedition; but from the high price of the drug Navy surgeons cannot afford the vast quantity required to do justice to the men without wronging themselves; therefore I humbly beg, sir, that you will move for a proportionate supply to the number of men on board the Sirius. I am, &c.,

Sir,

G. B. WORGAN, Surgeon of the Sirius.

CAPTAIN PHILLIP TO UNDER SECRETARY NEPEAN.

[London] December 2nd, 1786.

As I fear much discontent in the garrison if there is no allowance of wine or spirits (to which they have ever been accusthe garrison. tomed) until spruce beer can be procured for them, I beg that you will please to lay this circumstance before the Lords of the Treasury.

6 Dec.

I shall be able to receive a certain quantity of wine on board at Teneriffe, or the Cape, if judg'd necessary, and which I hope will be the case. I have, &c.,

ORDER FOR TRANSPORTATION.*

A. PHILLIP.

WHEREAS by the Act passed in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled 'An Act for the effectual Transporta transportation of felons and other offenders, and to authorize tion Act. the removal of prisoners in certain cases, and for other purposes

Recital.

therein mentioned,' it is enacted that from and after the passing of the said Act when any person or persons at any session of oyer and terminer or gaol delivery or at any Quarter or other General Session of the Peace, to be holden for any county, riding, division, city, town, borough, liberty, or place within that part of Great Britain called England, or at any great Session to be holden for the county palatine of Chester, or within the Principality of Wales, shall be convicted of fraud or petty larceny, or any other offence for which such person or persons shall be liable by the laws of this realm to be transported: It shall and may be lawful for the court before which any such person or persons shall be so convicted as aforesaid, or any subsequent court holden at any place for the said county, riding, division, city, town, borough, liberty, or place, respectively, with like authority to order and adjudge that such person or persons so convicted as aforesaid shall be transported beyond the seas for any term of years not exceeding

*New South Wales was first named as a place of transportation at the Council held at the Court of St. James's, 6th of December, 1786.

tion.

1786

2 Dec.

the number of years or term for which such person or persons is or are or shall be liable by any law to be transported; and in every such case it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to declare and appoint to what place or places, part or parts, beyond the seas, either within his Majesty's dominions or elsewhere out of his Majesty's Transportadominions, such felons or other offenders shall be conveyed or transported, and such court as aforesaid is thereby authorized and empowered to order such offenders to be transported to the use of any person or persons and his or their assigns, who shall contract for the due performance of such transportation; and when his Majesty, his heirs and successors, shall be pleased to extend mercy to any offender or offenders who hath or have been or shall be convicted of any crime or crimes for which he, she, or they is, are, or shall be by law excluded from the benefit of clergy, upon condition of transportation to any place or places, part or parts, beyond the seas, either for term of life, or any number of years, and such intention of mercy shall be signified by one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, it shall be lawful for any court having proper authority to allow such offender or offenders the benefit of a conditional pardon, and Conditional (except in cases where such offender or offenders shall be author- pardon. ized by his Majesty to transport himself, herself, or themselves) to order the transfer of such offender or offenders to any person or persons who shall contract for the due performance of such transportation, and his or their assigns, for such and the same terms of years for which such offender or offenders shall have been ordered to be transported, or for such term of life or years as shall be specified in such condition of transportation as aforesaid. And whereas it hath been represented to his Majesty that the several offenders whose names are contained in the list hereunto annexed have been transported or ordered to be transported to parts beyond the seas, his Majesty doth hereby judge fit, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to declare and appoint the place to which the several offenders shall be transported for the term or terms in their several sentences mentioned to be the eastern coast of New South Wales, or some one or other of the Convicts to islands adjacent; and all persons whom it may concern are to South Wales. give the necessary directions for causing the said several offenders to be conveyed or transported to the eastern coast of New South Wales, or some one or other of the islands adjacent, in the manner directed by the said Act.

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[The list contains many hundreds of names. At the Council held December 22, 1786, a similar order was made with regard to women. These, and others previously sentenced to be trans- Women. ported to America, "shall be transported to the eastern coast of New South Wales, or some one or other of the islands adjacent."]

1786 MEMO. FROM UNDER SECRETARY NEPEAN TO SIR C. MIDDLETON.

expenses.

MR. NEPEAN presents his compliments to Sir Charles Middleton. Is desired by Mr. Pitt* to request that he will order a Estimate of statement to be made of the expences which it is supposed will be incurred under the direction of the Navy Board for the providing of provisions, clothing, implements, &c., for the convicts, and sending them out to Botany Bay, including the expenses incurred for the detachment of marines. It is not expected that any statement which can now be made will be an accurate one, but Mr. Pitt wishes to obtain within a few days some information upon the business which may lead him to form an opinion to what expence this establishment may be likely to amount.

Equipment of the Sirius.

Sirius and
Supply-

cost of

equipment.

Mr. Nepean has applied to the Admiralty for information respecting the equipment of the Sirius and the tender, and the annual expence of their crews, as well as with regard to the pay of the marines. He has likewise applied to Mr. Rogers for an account of the value of the stores which have been supplied by the Board of Ordnance.

EQUIPMENT OF THE SIRIUS AND SUPPLY.

AN estimate of the expences which will attend the equipment of the Sirius and the tender that will accompany her to Botany Bay; of the annual expence of their establishment, including the victualling; of the probable value of the stores that may be annually expended on board the Sirius and Supply; and also of the annual pay of the marine establishment.

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1 No charge for stores included in the last two years, it being supposed that what is carried out will last the whole term.

*The Prime Minister, the Right Hon. William Pitt.

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