134 HISTORY OF 



instance of a vessel bringing provisions with- 

 out being- able to dispose of them. The Indis- 

 pensable and Halcyon sailed on the 8th to com- 

 plete their voyages to Bengal and Canton. On 

 the 9th arrived the Fancy, with a cargo of rice 

 and dholl. In July a building of four cells, for 

 solitary confinement was added to the guard- 

 house on the East side of the Cove. On the 

 28th, the Francis returned from Norfolk Island, 

 whither she had been sent to inform Governor 

 King that supplies would speedily be sent him ; 

 who in return sent information, that the harvest 

 had been prodigiously productive; that he had 

 purchased 11000 bushels of maize of theses 

 tlerSj for the amount of which he had drawn 

 bills, but the Lieutenant-Governor thinking it 

 not requisite to put such an expense on the 

 crown, declined accepting the bills till he had 

 the approbation of government. On the 1st of 

 September, the Britannia sailed, for the second 

 time on a voyage of speculation, on account of 

 the officers, to the Cape of Good Hope, for live 

 stock and other articles. On the 10th, arrived 

 from England, the Resolution ; and* on the 

 11th the Salamander, both freighted with pro- 

 visions and stores for the colony. The heavy 

 weather they had met with, considerably da- 

 maged the ships and stores. By those vessels 

 came intelligence, that John Hunter, Esq. was 

 appointed Governor of New South Wales, in- 

 stead of Capt. Phillip, who had resigned, and 

 was rewarded by a pension of 5001. per annum. 

 How highly to the credit of government would 



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