[4 • A VOYAGE TO 
CHAP, nants, and only three privates, with one hundred and 
' — ^ — ' two female convicts. Ten marines, of different deno- 
minations, were alfo fent as fupernumeraries on board 
the Sirius, The whole complement of marines, includ-. 
ing officers, amounted to two hundred and twelve; 
befides which, twenty-eight women, wives of marines, 
• carrying with them feventeen children, were penPiitted 
to accompany their hufbands. The number of convi6ls 
was feven hundred and feventy-eight, of whom five 
hundred and fifty -eight were men. Two, however, 
on board the Alexander, received a full pardon before 
the departure of the fleet, and confequently remained 
in England. 
MajMjth, Governor Phillip, on his arrival at the flation, hoifled 
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his flag on board the Sirius, as Commodore of the 
fquadron : and the embarkation being completed, and 
the time requiring his departure, at day break on the 
13th of May, he gave the fignal to w^eigh anchor. To 
. " the diflance of about an hundred leagues clear of the 
channel, his Majeity's frigate Hyena, of twenty-four 
guns, was ordered to attend the fleet, in order to bring 
intelligence of its paifage through that moft difficult part, 
of the voyage ; with any difpatches which it might be 
r.equifite for the Governor to fend home. 
