THE HISDON SETTLEMENT. 



King- to 

 Collins, 30tli 

 September, 

 1804. 



Collins to 

 King, -jgih 

 Februavy, 

 1804, 



King to 

 Collins, 30th 

 September. 



Knopwood, 

 3i'(l Sept. 



King to 

 Palmer, St9th 

 September. 

 King's Com- 

 mission, 31st 

 August, 1S04. 



King to 

 Collins, 30th 

 September, 

 1804. 



King's memo, 

 to Palmer, 

 29th Septem- 

 ber, 1804. 



Bowen to 

 King, 17th 

 November, 

 1804. 



King to 

 Hobart, 20th 

 December, 

 1804, 



The other settler, Birt, had applied for and obtained 

 leave to remain ; but at the last moment he changed 

 his mind, and sailed with the rest in tlie Ocean, v/hicli 

 brought him under the displeasure of Governor King, 

 wlio refused to allow him a grant of land. Dr. Mount- 

 gan-et also at first desired to stay, as he had been 

 combiniijg commerce with medicine, and had a large 

 stock on hand which he wished to dis})ose of; but he, 

 eventually, changed his mind, and he also sailed in the 

 Ocean. 



The net balance of the Risdon Settlement, therefore, 

 remaining with Collins was Richard Clark and the 

 n male and 2 female convicts above mentioned. Collins 

 afterwards oi'dered all the houses at Risdon to be pulled 

 down ; but it does not appear whether this was carried 

 into effecf. The Ocean did not arrive in Port Jackson 

 until the 23rd August, King having almost given her up 

 for lost. Dr. Mountgarret got a fi-esh appointment as 

 Surgeon to the new Settlement at Port Dalrymple, 

 under Lieut.-Colonel Paterson. 



Lieut. Bowen had left a mare at the Derwont for 

 v/hieh he had paid <£12(), and he offered her to King at 

 that pi'ice. The Governor agreed to purchase her on 

 Government account, and paid Bowen with four cows, 

 wiiich he stopped out of his next shipment to Collins. 

 This was ihe first horse taken to Van Dieraen's Land. 



It only remains to state v.-hat more we know of the 

 Governor of Risdon Creek. On his arrival at Sydney 

 he was desirous of returning to England, in order that 

 he might again enter on active service in the navy. 

 Governor King had offered him the munificent pay of 

 5.5. per day from the SOth June, 1803, when he first 

 sailed from Sydney in the Porpohe, to the 24th August, 

 1804, when he returned thither in the Ocean, viz., 420 

 days, at 5,?. per day, or ^105 — exactly one hundred 

 guineas for 14 months' governorship — certainly not an 

 extravagant salary for a Governor — not enough to pay 

 his passage to England. He refused the colonial pay 

 offered, and addressed a letter to King, in which he 

 reminds the Govei'nor that pecuniary considerations had 

 not been in his view in accepting the appointment, but 

 simply the advancement of his interest in His Majesty's 

 naval service ; but that, as he had been at great expense 

 consequent on that appointment, he trusted the Governor 

 would recommend him to the Home authorities for a 

 sufficient remuneration. King enclosed the letter to 

 Lord Hobart, strongly recommending the application, as 

 he believed Bowen had done his utmost to forward the 

 service he undertook, and expressing a hope that, in 



