BY JAMES BACKHOUSE WALKER. 89 



addition to this, his character, and that of his father and 

 other relatives in the navy, might open a way for the 

 promotion he was so anxious to obtain. King also paid 

 his passage home in the Lady Barlow, amounting 

 to £100. 



It would seem that Lieut. Bovven obtained the promo- 

 tion he sought. Jorgensen — who, however, Avas not the 

 most accurate of men — states in his autobiography that 

 the Commandant of Risdon was a son of Commissioner 

 Bowen. Mr. Leslie Stephen's " Dictionary of National Ross' Hohart 

 Biography," in a notice of Captain James (afterwards Toton 

 Admiral) Bowen, who performed brilliant services at sea ^J^^^"^'^} 

 during the French wars, mentions the fact that he was 

 one of the Commissioners of the Navy from 1816 to 1825, 

 and that his son John, also a captain, after serving in 

 that rank through the later years of the war, died in the 

 year 1828. 



With this brief notice of its founder, I close the story 

 of the first Settlement at Risdon Cove. 



APPENDIX A. 

 Captain Hayes' Charts. 

 A manuscript map, evidently the result of Lieut. Hayes' 

 surveys of the Derwent, was recently discovered by Mr. 

 James R. M'Clymont in the National Library. Mr. Alfred 

 Mault has obtained through his friends in Paris a fac simile 

 of this map, which lie has courteously placed at the disposal 

 of the Royal Society, and a photo-lithograph of it will appear 

 in this year's volume of the Society's Proceedings. The map 

 bears the imprint of A. Arrowsmith, London, but apparently 

 was never published. Mr. Mault thinks it is Lieut. Hayes' 

 own draft of his chart prepared for publication. This is pro- 

 bable ; but the map in question is not identical with the 

 sketch Flinders refers to, since that sketch showed Risdon 

 Cove, v/hich does not appear in Mr. Mault'syac simile. His 

 Excellency the Governor has kindly interested himself in the 

 matter, and it is probable that through his influence some 

 further information respecting Hayes' expedition may at last 

 be brought to Hght. 



APPENDIX B. 



Population of the Australian Colonies at the time of the 

 Risdon Settlement (1803) :— 



New South Wales 7134 



Norfolk Island 1200 



Van Diemen's Land 49 ^ 



\ Total 8383 



See CoUins' "Account of New South Wales," ii., 333. 



