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In 1832 an impudent impostor of the name of Joshua Hill 

 found his way to the island, and pretending that he had been 

 sent out as a governor by the Crown, he managed for six or 

 seven years to usurp the supreme authority, which he exercised in 

 a way to cause general discontent and unhappiness. In the end 

 he was found out and taken away by a British ship, and peace and 

 prosperity were restored. On the 23rd of January, 1850, the islanders 

 held a great jubilee, to celebrate the settlement of the colony by the 

 mutineers sixty years before. Lady Belcher says of this occasion : — 

 " Well might the existing generation be proud of the happy state of the 

 community, descendants of the men whose illegal acts had' compelled 

 them to seek concealment from the outer world. Of that generation all 

 had passed away, oppressors and oppressed, the white men and their 

 coloured associates. Violence had ceased, and this anniversary was 

 celebrated in as fair a land and by a people as free from guile as any on 

 the face of the earth." In 1854 Admiral Moresby stayed some time 

 at the island with his ship, and his son, Mr. Fortescue Moresby, wrote 

 an account of the visit, in which he pays an enthusiastic tribute to the 

 industry, sobriety, hospitality, intelligence, and virtue of the inhabitants. 

 He winds up by saying, "Truly, a more innocent or delightful race 

 does not exist." In 1855 Captain Freemantle was sent by Sir William 

 Denison, Governor General of New South Wales, to report upon the 

 condition of Pitcairn's Island. Of the people he said, " I will only add 

 my corroboration to their still remaining the same cheerful, docile, and 

 unsophisticated community they have so often been represented to be;' 

 but owing to the want of water and for some other reasons Captain 

 Freemantle recommended their being again removed to some place more 

 capable of sustaining their continual growth. Acting upon this advice, 

 the Government set aside Norfolk Islands — no longer used as a penal 

 settlement — for the exclusive occupation of the Pitcairn Islanders, and 

 the following year they were removed thither to the number of one 

 hundred and ninety-three persons, composed of forty men, forty-seven 

 women, fifty-four boys, and fifty two girls, with all their worldly possess- 

 ions. In 1857, Sir William Denison, accompanied by Mr. Fortescue 



