MAJOR SEMPLE LISLE. 2^^ 



taken on himfelfin confequenceof the harmony 

 wTirchfor fo long a time had fubiifted between 

 our countries, and which never would be charg- 

 ed to the Britifh Government ; but if thefe 

 gentlemen thought they had a claim to further 

 afliftance, they mull each of them addrefs a 

 petition to the Sovereign, ftating their demand, 

 and lodge it at the office of the Tribunal, which 

 2:eprefents Majefby in that country, and of which 

 his Excellency the Viceroy is Prcfident, and 

 they would determine whether the requeft 

 fhould be refufed or granted ; their petitions 

 were accordingly prefented, Minchin figning 

 himfelf Lieutenant and Adjutant, and demand- 

 ing to.be paid as fuch. Some days before the 

 ineetingof the Tribunal I received a vilit from 

 the Secretary, who enquired why I had not al- 

 ready given in my petition j I told him, that 

 having no claim of any kind on the Britifh go- 

 vernment, I could not, like the others, petition ; 

 that ms Excellency the Viceroy knew every thing 

 concerning me, and that if he or the Tribunal, 

 in the name of the Sovereign, thought it proper 

 to prefent me with fuch a fum of money as 

 would pay my pafTage to Europe, I would ac- 

 cept it; but that the eighteen pence per day, 

 which the officers of the New South Wales 

 Corps,.men, women, and children, had received, 

 I neither yet had, or ever would touch ; that the 

 yiceroy haying given me a good houfe, and the 



T ^eneroys 



