ijgiJ] OF NEW SOUTH WALES. r 4S 



Six months' provifions for about nine hundred people, with ftores 

 for his Majefty's armed tender the Supply, and for the marine de- 

 tachment, were fent out in the Gorgon ; wherein alfo was embarked 

 Mr. King, the late commandant of Norfolk Ifland, now appointed 

 by his Majefty Lieutenant-Governor of that fettlement, and a com- 

 mander in the navy ; together with a deputy furVeyor-general to be 

 employed at Norfolk Ifland ; the chaplain and quarter-mafter of the 

 New South Wales corps, and a fuperintendant of convicts.. 



By this fhip alfo came a public feal, to be affixed to all inftrument9 

 drawn in his Majefty's name; and a commiffion under the great feal 3 

 empowering the Governor for the time being to remit, either abfo- 

 lutely or conditionally, the whole or any part of the term for which 

 felons, or other offenders, mould have been or might hereafter be 

 tranfported to that country. Duplicates of each pardon were to be 

 fent to England, for the purpofe of inferting the names of the perfons 

 fo emancipated in the firft general pardon which mould afterwards 

 iffue under the great feal of the kingdom. 



To^eferving characters, of which defcription there' were many con- 

 victs in the colony,, a profpect of having the period of their banifhment 

 fhortened, and of being reftored to the privilege which by raifconducl 

 they had forfeited, had fomething in it very cheering,, and was more 

 likely to preferve well-intentioned men in honeft and fair purfuits, 

 than the fear of punifhment, which would feldom operate with good 

 effect on a mind that entertained no hope of reward for propriety 

 of conduct., The people who had degraded themfelves fufficiently 

 to wear the ftigma of ' convict,' could not be fuppofed in general 

 actuated by that nice fenfe of feeling which draws its trueft fatis- 

 faction from felf-approbation ; they looked for fomething, more fub« 

 ftantial, fomething more obvious to the external fenfes. 



In determining the device for the feal of the colony, attention had 

 been paid to its local and peculiar circumftances. On the obverfe 

 were, the King's arms, with the royal titles in the margin ; on the 

 reverfe, a reprefentation of Convicts landing at Botany Bay,, received 



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