A VOYAGE TO 
[7/i England. 
home for His Majesty ; and you are, so soon as the sloop shall arrive 
at any port in England, to give notice of her arrival to His Majesty's 
hotanic gardener at Kew, and to transmit to him a list and state of the 
said plants &c, which the gardener employed under your orders is 
to furnish you with for that purpose. 
Given under our hands the 22nd of June, 1801. 
(Signed), St. Vincent. 
rp Q T. Troubridge. 
Matthew Flinders, Esq. J Markham. 
Commander of His Majesty's sloop 
Investigator, at Spithead. 
By command of their Lordships, 
(Signed,) Evan Nepean. 
The instructions were accompanied with the extract of a memoir 
from Mr. Dalrymple, respecting the winds and weather to be ex- 
pected, principally upon the south coast of Terra Australis. Also 
with the following Passport from the French government. 
Le Premier Consul de la Republique Francaise, 
sur le compte qui hi a etc rendu de la demande faite par le Lord 
Hawkesbury au Citoyen Otto, commissaire du gouvernement 
Franfais a Londres, d'un Passeport pour la corvette Investigator, 
dont le signalement est ci-apres, expedite par le gouvernement 
Anglais, sous le commandement du capitaine Matthew Flinders, 
pour un voyage de decouvertes dans la Mer Pacifique, ayant de- 
cide que ce passeport seroit accorde, et que cette expedition, dont 
I'objet est d'etendre les connoissances humaines, et d'assurer 
davantage les progres de la science nautique et de la geogra- 
phie, trouveroit de la part du gouvernement Franfais la surete 
et la protection necessaires. 
Le Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies ordonne 
en consequence a tous les commandants des bdtiments de guerre de 
