124 FRENCH IN VAN DIEMEN's LAND, &C. 



2. Despatches relating to supposed French 



designs on Austraha ; es])ecially the pro- 

 ceedings of Baudin's Expedition, and 

 the measures taken by Governor King- 

 to anticipate the French in forming a 

 Settlement in Van Diemen's Land, 

 1802-3 25 pages. 



3. The Bowen Papers — First Settlement at 



Risdon Cove, 1803 48 pages. 



4. The Collins Papers — Settlement of Hobart 



Town, 1804 300 pages. 



5. Exploration of Port Dairy m])le and River 



Tamar — Settlement at York Town 



under Colonel Paterson, 1804 124 pages. 



6. The Bass Papers 44 pages. 



7. Papers on the Aborigines 37 pages. 



Appendix B. 

 Governor King's Letter to Commodore Baudin. 



( From the copy in the Record Office, London.) 



Sydney, November 23/(1, 1802. 

 Sir, 



You will ])e sui)>iiscd to see a vessel so soon after you. 

 You know my intention of sending a vessel to the soutliward 

 to fix on a place for a Settlement, but this has been hastened 

 l)y a report communicated to me soon after your de])arture — 

 " that the Trench intended to settle in Storm Bay l^assnge, 

 sfunewhere about what is now called Frederick Ilendrick Bay, 

 and that it was recommended by you to tjie lic])ublic," as a 

 proof of which u chart ])ointin;^' out the situation (JJaye du 

 Nord) was, as Colonel Paterson iiifornis me, ^dven him a 

 short time before you sailed by a gentleman of your ship. 



You will easily inia<,nne that if any information of that 

 kind had reached mc bel()rc your departure I should have 

 requested an explanation ; but, as I knew nothing of it, and 

 at present totally disbelieving anything of the kind ever being 

 thought of, I consider it but pro]ier to give yf)u this informa- 

 tion. In case the Cinnherland should liill in with your ships 

 the Commander of that vessel ha^ my directions to commu- 

 nicate to vou the order.-? he is under. 



