50 HISTORY OF 



purpose of receiving the plants, &c. from Rio- 

 de- Janeiro and the Cape of Good Hope. They 

 were then brought on shore, and in a short time 

 every eye was gratified with seeing the 11 gv 

 orange, pear, grape, and apple take root in New 

 South Wales. 



The Governor ordered his Majesty's commis- 

 sion, which appointed him to be, his " Captain 

 General and Governor in Chief, in and over the 

 Territory of New South Wales and its Depend- 

 encies," to be read in public, together with the 

 Letters Patent for establishing Civil and Cri- 

 minal Courts in the territory, which was now 

 found to extend from Cape York, the extre- 

 mity of the coast to the North, in the latitude 

 of 20°. 37 ; . South, to the South Cape, the 

 Southern extremity of the coast, in the latitude 

 of 43°. 39'. South, and inland to the Westward 

 as far as 135°. of East longitude, comprehend- 

 ing all the islands adjacent, in the Pacific Ocean 

 within the latitude of the before mentioned 

 Capes. 



The ceremony of reading these instruments 

 was performed, with great dignity, by Captain 

 Collins, the Judge Advocate, after which the 

 Governor addressed himself to the convicts, 

 and assured them, that he should ever be ready 

 to encourage those who might deserve it; but, 

 on the contrary, those who acted in opposition 

 to propriety, would inevitably meet the punish- 

 ment they deserved ; nor did he close without 

 shewing them, how much it was both their duty 



