1792.] OF NEW SOUTH WALES. i 9I 



His Excellency, at embarking on board the Atlantic, was received 

 near the wharf where his boat v as lying, by Major Grofe, at the head 

 of the New South Wales corps, who paid him as he paffed the 

 honours due to his rank and fituation in the colony. The Atlantic 

 failed the next morning, being the nth of December. 



With the Governor, embarked, voluntarily and cheerfully, two 

 natives of the country which he was about to quit, Bennillong and 

 Yem- mer-ra- wan-nie, two men who were much attached to his 

 perfon, and who withftood at the moment of their departure the 

 united diftrefs of their wives, and the difmal lamentations of their 

 friends, to accompany him to England ; a place which they well knew 

 was at a great diftance from them. 



On board the Atlantic likewife went various fpecimens of the na- 

 tural productions of the country, timber, plants, animals, and birds 9 

 Among the animals were four fine kangooroos, and feveral native 

 dogs. 



A fafe and fpeedy paffage to this fh'ip- was the general wiih, not 

 only on account of the Governor, whofe health and conftitution, al- 

 ready much impaired, might iuffer greatly by the fatigues of a pro- 

 traded voyage ; but that the information of which his Excellency 

 was in poffeflion refpecling thefe fettlements, from their eRabiim- 

 ment to the moment of his quitting them, might as quickly as pof- 

 fible be laid before adminiftration. 



The government of the colony now devolved, by his MajeftyV 

 letters patent under the great feal of Great Britain, upon the Lieute- 

 nant-Governor Major Francis Grofe, of the New South Wales corps. 

 At his taking upon himfelf the government, on which occafion the ufual 

 oaths were adminiftered by the Judge-Advocate, he gave out the fol- 

 lowing order, regulating the mode of carrying on the duty at Parra- 

 matta. 



" All orders given by the Captain who commands at Parramatta, 

 refpecling the convicts Rationed there, are to be obeyed ; and all com- 

 plaints or reports that would be made to the Lieutenant-Governor 

 when prefent, are in his abfence to be communicated to Captain Fo- 



veaux, 



