HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 





Council in 1804, when he was in London, praying that he should be allotted sixty 

 thousand acres, and thirty convicts as shepherds. The Privy Council summoned him to 

 attend in person before them, and give evidence as to the nature of his project. He 

 made a favourable impression, although the Council did not recommend that his proposals 

 should be accepted. But 

 the woollen manufacturers of 

 England supported him, and 

 their influence speedily 

 settled the question. Lord 

 Camden, then Secretary of 

 State for the Colonies, sent 

 a despatch to Governor 

 King, under date of the 

 3 ist of October, 1804, m 

 which he desired His Excel- 

 lency to have " a proper 

 grant of land, fit for the 

 pasture of sheep, conveyed 

 to the said John Macarthur, 

 Esq., in perpetuity, with the 

 usual reserve of quit rents 

 to the Crown, containing 

 not less than five thousand 

 acres." The land now known 

 as the Camden Estate, which 

 had been selected in the 

 first instance by the cattle 

 that had strayed from the 



settlement in early days, on account of the sweet grass in the whin-stone country, was 

 chosen for the purpose. Macarthur died in 1834, and was buried at Camden, the scene 

 of one of the most successful enterprises that ever blessed the industry of man. 



GOVERNOR KING. 



In September, 1800, Governor Hunter sailed for England, where shortly after his 

 arrival he was appointed to the command of a line-of-battle ship. Barrington says in 

 his "History" that: "Hunter's departure was attended with every mark of respect and 

 regret. The road to the wharf was lined with troops, and he was accompanied by the 

 officers of the civil and military departments, with a concourse of inhabitants, who 

 showed by their deportment the high sense they entertained of the regard he had ever 

 paid to their interests, and of the justice and humanity of his Government." 



The next Governor was Philip Gidley King, who came out with the First Fleet as 

 lieutenant of the Sirius, and had been sent in February, 1788, to establish the settle- 

 ment at Norfolk Island. He had served as Lieutenant-Governor there until he was 

 appointed to administer the Government of New South Wales. He and Phillip had 



GOVERNOR JOHN HUNTER. 



