SOME FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE OF BANKS. 
2 og 
Other correspondence, of a less important character, followed. Under 
contract with Mr. Richards, the “ Boddingtons ” and “ Sugarcane ” 
were sent out in 1793 with 300 convicts from Ireland. 
9. Samuel Enderby, London merchant and ship-owner (General 
Charles G. Gordon’s maternal grandfather) ; two of his ships laden with 
tea in Boston Harbour, were, on the memorable November evening, 
1773, dispossessed of their cargo and destroyed, thus beginning the 
War of Independence. Some of the six transports that conveyed the 
first batch of convicts to Sydney Cove in January, 1788, belonged to 
Samuel Enderby. 
He wrote to Sir Joseph Banks, 29th May, 1801, recommending the 
extension of the southern whale fishery. 
The whale fishery was destined to assume large proportions in Aus- 
tralian seas in later years. The correspondence with Captain W. Wilson 
(infra) incidentally refers to it. 
10. Captain William Wilson. He was agent in London to Rev. 
S. Marsden and Messrs. Campbell & Co. In a letter to Banks he 
complains, 27th June, 1806,* of the officers of the East India Company 
seizing certain ships from Australia freighted with elephant oil, seal- 
skins, and beefwood. There were 100 tons of the latter (presumably 
Casuarina). 
He stated that he had visited the island of Otaheite on three 
occasions : — 
By these voyages I have learnt that both the islanders there and the colonists 
of New South Wales justly look up to you (Banks) as the patron and promoter 
of their prosperity. 
.\nd in a memorial which W’ilson enclosed, praying for relief against 
the arbitrary action of the East India Company in seizing a ship and 
cargo of seal-skins and oil from the colony, he said ; — 
The colony of New South Wales and its dependencies, daily rising in importance 
to the mother country, the inhabitants, many of whom have never forfeited one 
privilege of British subjects, look homeward with anxiety for encouragement to 
the industry, which is e.xcited among them. In their remote situation, solicitude 
for a conservation of their rights, and a promoter of their welfare naturally directs 
their attention to you, honourable sir, who from the circumstance of your assent 
to the settlement being made, it is hoped will, by a continuance of support, not 
only be instrumental in rendering the colonists comfortable in a great degree 
among themselves, but even be the means of carrying civilization and all the 
blessings connected with it to the thousands of islanders in their neighbourhood. 
11. George Suttor, whose descendants hold a verv honourable record 
as legislators in New .South Wales, was of Scotch extraction ; Sir 
• Hist Rec.t VI, 100. 
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