1792 wrecked fishery to be relieved from the burthen of a ship's company which he had taken up in Delagoa Bay in great distress from shipwreck, 28 April. of the steps you had taken in disposing of them, and also of some ShipEnglish seamen who were confined in the prison of the Cape Town, -I am, in return, commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you that they approve of what you did upon those occasions. I am, &c., P.S. crew. 11 May. Royal UNDER SECRETARY KING TO UNDER SECRETARY LEWIS. Sir, Whitehall, 11th May, 1792. Having laid before Mr. Secretary Dundas a letter trans- Soldiers for mitted by the Lords of the Treasury from the Commissioners of Admiral. the Navy, enclosing extract of a letter from Mr. Brown, on behalf of the owners of the Royal Admiral, representing the necessity of a guard, to consist of a serjeant and 12 soldiers, to sail with the convicts to New South Wales, I am directed by Mr. Dundas to enclose the said extract and letter to you, to be laid before the Secretary at War, with Mr. Dundas's opinion that the request of the owners of the Royal Admiral should be complied with on the conditions mentioned in Mr. Brown's letter. I am, &c., JOHN KING. UNDER SECRETARY KING TO GOVERNOR PHILLIP. 15 May. with Sir, Inclosed I transmit you copies of agreements made with Wm. Agreement Peat, the master carpenter, and Thomas Allen, the master miller, carpenter mentioned in Mr. Secretary Dundas's letter to you of this date. and miller. A settler of the name of Jameson, a farmer, with his wife and child, accompanies them in the Royal Admiral. The observations made by the Commissary respecting the articles which have already been sent out will be attended to in the future purchase of articles for New South Wales. [Enclosure.] I am, &c., AGREEMENT WITH MASTER MILLER. JOHN KING. AN agreement entered into and made the fourteenth day of May, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, between Alexander Davison, of Harper-street, in the county of Middlesex, and Kingdom of Great Britain, esq're, in virtue of a letter or authority to him from John King, esq're, one of his Majesty's Under Secretary's of State for the Home Department (on behalf of Government) of the one part, and Thomas Allen, now belonging to or employed in the King's mills at Rotherhithe, in the said county of Surrey, miller, of the other part, as follows :— First the said Thomas Allen doth agree with the said Alexander Four years Davison that he will embark on board of the Royal Admiral for service. New South Wales to act as a master-miller in his Majesty's service in mills in that country, for the space of four years, com 1792 15 May. provisions. Salary. mencing from the day of his embarkation to the said country, when he shall be called upon for that purpose. And in consideration of which the said Alexander Davison doth promise and agree Clothing and that he will find, or cause to be found, for the said Thomas Allen, good and sufficient clothing and provisions during the whole of the said term of four years, commencing as aforesaid, and will also pay, or cause to be paid to the said Thomas Allen, as a salary for such his service, the annual sum of fifty-two pounds ten shillings, by even half-yearly payments during the said term of four years, the first payment thereof begin and be made at the expiration of half a year after his embarking for the said country, and shall and will pay, or cause to be paid, the expences of conveying the said Thomas Allen to the said settlement. And in case the said Thomas Allen shall, during the whole of the said Free passage term, serve in the capacity and place aforesaid, that he, the said to England. Alexander Davison, will pay all his expences of returning to England at the expiration thereof, or otherwise occasion a free passage to him. And the said Alexander Davison doth hereby require, authorize, and empower Arthur Phillip, esqr'e, Governor of the said colony, to provide for the said Thomas Allen such good and sufficient clothing and provisions as aforesaid during the said term, and to pay the said salary, as the same shall become due for such service, as aforesaid, to the said Thomas Allen, his executors, administrators, or assigns, and also to pay such eventual expences of the voyage of the said Thomas Allen from the said colony as aforesaid. And the said Thomas Allen doth hereby Contract. further covenant, promise, and agree that he, the said Thomas Allen, will well and truly conduct, demean, and behave himself in his said business or employ of a master-miller in his Majesty's service as aforesaid, for and during the full term of four years, commencing as aforesaid. And, lastly, the said parties do agree with each other that in case either of them shall not well and truly perform this agreement, and carry it into execution as Forfeit for aforesaid, that the party non-performing the same shall and will forfeit and pay to the other of them the sum of one hundred pounds as soon as may be after such default. non-per formance. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals at London, the day and year first above written. ALEXR. DAVISON. Sealed and delivered (being first duly stamped) in the presence of,Witness-JOHN CLARKE. THE RIGHT HON. HENRY DUNDAS TO GOVERNOR PHILLIP. the margin,* by the Waaksamheyd and the Supply, tender, which, notwithstanding the different periods they set out at from New South Wales, arrived here at the same instant. † As the Royal Admiral, East Indiaman, which carries this dispatch, sails immediately, the shortness of the time will not allow me to answer you so circumstantially as I otherwise should do as to the several particulars you have communicated to me. 1792 15 May. Of these, the treatment of the convicts on board the Queen, Illtreatment and the conduct of the transports in carrying out copper, iron, of convicts. and such other articles as you have mentioned, are the most material. As to the first, I highly approve of the examinations you have taken and transmitted to me.‡ I shall, in consequence, take care, whenever the persons concerned return home, that justice be done. I have, on the same principle, thoroughly investigated, and have The Second taken the necessary steps to bring forward the conduct of the Fleet. parties concerned in the treatment of the convicts on board the Neptune, Scarborough, and Surprize.§ The articles clandestinely carried out by the transports and not Contraband delivered in New South Wales, in point of fact, are to be con- goods. sidered as belonging to the Navy Board, and therefore, altho' I recommend your caution, yet I should have been better satisfied with your having made a seizure of them.|| It is proposed, for the future, to transport both the convicts and such articles for the settlement as shall be sent from hence by ships in the service of the East India Company, and I trust Indiamen. that by this means the evils which have hitherto subsisted will be put an end to. The quantity of spermaceti whales found on the coast may Whaling. eventually become an object of great consequence to the settlement, and be a means of extending the communication betwixt it and this country (as well as others) much beyond that necessary degree thereof which attains at present. It may, therefore, in future become expedient to make such local regulations as to the admission of certain commodities, such as spirits, &c., as may be Imports. found requisite, but for the present I should apprehend that the port orders, carefully executed, will be sufficient. Such remaining articles as the colony may stand in need of, and such settlers as are inclined to go (and to induce whom all reasonable encouragement has been held out) will be sent in another Supplies. East Indiaman, orders for taking up which have already been given to the Navy Board. No. 1-1st March, 1791. No. 2-4th March, 1791. No. 3-5th March, 1791. No. 415th March, 1791. No. 5-25th March, 1791. No. 6-26th March, 1791. No. 1-5th November, 1791. No. 2-7th November, 1791. No. 3-Ditto. No. 4-8th November, 1791. No. 5-15th November, 1791. No. 6-22nd November, 1791. No. 7-24th November, 1791. No. 8-25th November, 1791. Separate-21st November, 1791. Ditto-22nd November, 1791. + The Waaksamheyd sailed 27th March, 1791. The Supply sailed 27th November, 1791. ↑ Ante, p. 538. § Ante, pp. 354, 355, 367, 368, 387, 388. Ante, pp. 547, 549, 550, 555. 1792 15 May. Shipping arrangements. Stores. In recurring to the articles intended for the Pitt and comparing them with those contained in the list now transmitted by you and Mr. Palmer,* I observe that many of them are of the same kind. I hope therefore, as all those articles shut out of the Pitt will arrive by the Britannia, Kitty, and Royal Admiral,† that your immediate wants will be supplied. I have nevertheless taken the proper steps to procure immediately an assortment of the different articles contained in the Commissary's list above-mentioned, and if by any means the same, or any part thereof, can be put on board the Royal Admiral, it shall be done. At all events, they shall be sent by the next Indiaman. I take this opportunity of desiring that in future the Commissary's list of articles wanted may contain, for the information of his Majesty's Secretary of State, the number, or quantity, of each article opposite the same. The accounts you give of the general state of the settlement, and of the conduct of those that compose it, are extremely satisState of the factory, and I trust a short period will render it, in a great Colony. Grain and live stock. measure, independent of this country, as to the mere articles of subsistence. The two great and primary objects are grain and live stock. Until a sufficient quantity of these can be raised for the use of the settlement, the real amount or effect of its exertions cannot be ascertained. To obtain these on the most reasonable terms, and with the greatest expedition, I am of opinion that recourse must be had to the settlement of Fort William. The Supplies from India. Various species both of grain and live stock from thence must, I conceive, be well adapted for New South Wales. I propose, therefore giving such directions on this point as to lead to your receiving from them a supply of those articles from time to time. I shall enclose in this letter an account of the different articles of cloathing, stores, and provisions, which accompany it, as also a list of the convicts, with the times for which they are respectively transported.§ Carpenter and miller. Wine and tobacco. Artificers. A master carpenter and a master miller are hired for the service of the settlement, and will sail in the Royal Admiral, if they can be received on board, if not, certainly in the next Indiaman. There will likewise by this or the next opportunity be consigned to you, a certain quantity of port wine and tobacco, to be disposed of by the Governor for the time being to the civil and military officers, and to others, at prime cost, according to his discretion; at the same time will be sent an allowance of rum for the non-commissioned officers and privates. I am happy to find that by the Kitty, such convict artificers were sent as you have stated the settlement to be most in want of. *The Commissary. + The Britannia arrived 26th July; the Kitty 18th Nov.; the Royal Admiral 7th Oct. 1792 15 May. In consequence of the observations of Mr. Palmer on the articles which have been purchased for the settlement by Mr. Alexander Davison, I have thought proper to give directions for the inspection of such articles as are intended for New South Inspection Wales previous to their being put on board. of stores. retirement I cannot conclude this letter without assuring you how much Phillip's I lament that the ill state of your health deprives his Majesty lamented. of your further services in the Government of New South Wales, and I have only to hope that, on quitting the settlement, you will have the satisfaction of leaving it in a thriving and prosperous situation. HY. DUNDAS. P.S.-Considering the small number of acres capable of cultiva at Norfolk tion in Norfolk Island, and at the same time their fertility, I Settlement think it expedient that the allotments to settlers in that island Island. should not exceed fifteen acres.-HENRY DUNDAS. 21 May. from India WM. RICHARDS, JUNR., TO SIR JOSEPH BANKS (Banks Papers). Sir, Queen's Row, Walworth, 21st May, 1792. I hope your kindness will excuse the liberty I take in addressing myself to you; but being fully convinced that, provided Government did but contract for providing the settlement at Port Jackson in the mode and manner which I took the liberty some time back of mentioning, it would be attended with the best consequences. The idea, which is entertained, of being supplied from India is by no means an economical one, and I am fully per- Supplies suaded that the article supplied from thence will cost the publick undesirable. nearly as much more as if it was supplied from hence; and let me assure you, sir, that whatever offers Government may have, none can be more beneficial to them than that which I did myself the honor to lay before them and you. No honest man can supply provisions of the proper quality, and packed in an eligible way for so long a passage, for less than at that ratio which I pointed out, and which I understand is the allowance that Governor Phillip would always wish to have in store to be issued to the soldiers and convicts, &c. There are many reasons why Government should adopt such a mode of supplying the settlement independent of economy. The last accounts from the settlement are very far from flattering, and in consequence of an apparent want, Gov. Phillip, I understand, has dispatched two vessels- one to Calcutta, the other to China-for a supply. Depend on it, supplies from such places Foreign will never answer. Concerned as I am for the improvement of the supplies will settlement (having been the first who undertook that business, and which was quite a new one, and meeting with great opposition in chartering ships, &c.), I cannot, without being affected, hear the |