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absolutely identical with " Captain Hayes' sketch," which 

 Flinders mentions as having had with him on his visit to the 

 Derwent, in the Norfolk, in 1798. The latter contained some 

 names — such as Eisdon Cove, — which did not appear on the 

 map they had now before them. Of the names on this map 

 very few were now in use. Some of them were given in 

 honour of the captain's fellow-officers in the Bombay Marine. 

 Following His Excellency's suggestion at a former meeting, 

 he had searched for further particulars respecting Captain 

 (afterwards Sir John) Hayes, and his expedition in 1794. He 

 had not succeeded, however, in finding more than was con- 

 tained in Lieutenant Chas. E. Low's " History of the Indian 

 Navy." That work gave a short account of the discovery 

 expedition, and of Hayes' services in the Indian Seas, from 

 which it appeared that he was a most distinguished naval 

 officer. He was afterwards appointed Master Attendant at 

 ■Calcutta, ranking next to the officer in Supreme Command 

 of the Indian Navy. As they had in Hobart a descendant 

 of Sir John (Colonel Cruick shank, of New Town), he hoped 

 some clue might be found which would lead to the discovery 

 of the lost journals of the expedition. The map of Van 

 Diemen's Land, purporting to be from Flinders, was most 

 probably copied from one of the manuscript charts which 

 were seized in the Cumberland at Mauritius, In a tracing 

 made by Mr. Bonwick from Flinders' original chart, the 

 precise phrases occurred which were here translated into 

 French. With respect to Flinders' detention by Governor 

 De Caen, he had observed in a pamphlet containing a 

 summary of the Brabourne Papers, a statement that amongst 

 the despatches carried by the Cumberland was one from 

 Governor King, suggesting the possibility of using Port 

 Jackson as a centre from which to attack the French. The 

 writer of the pamphlet suggested that this despatch might 

 have afforded De Caen a pretext for detaining Flinders, as 

 being a violation of the terms of his safe conduct. 



Mk. Mault could not give credence to the latter statement, 

 seeing that Captain Flinders had always been regarded by him 

 in the light of a true man, in every sense in which that could 

 be applied, and strictly honourable in every sense of the 

 word, and he could not credit it that he would so ignore the 

 terms upon which he held his passport from Bonaparte. 

 If such papers were found on him he could not have been 

 aware of their contents. 



Mk. Walker fully shared Mr. Mault's admiration for 

 Flinders, who was a man wholly incapable of doing a dis- 

 honourable action. If he carried such a despatch, it was 

 certain that he was unaware of its nature. It should also be, 

 remembered that the Cumberland left Port Jackson during 

 the peace of Amiens, and therefore there would have been no 

 impropriety in Flinders carrying despatches. 



