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purchase any suitable one that might be 
offered for sale. 
For my guidance I received the follow- 
ing instructions from the Admiralty and 
the Colonial Department:— 
Admiralty Office, Mh February , 1817. 
Sir, 
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty being 
informed of the arrangements of Earl Bathurst, His Ma- 
jesty’s principal Secretary of State for the Colonial De- 
partment, for employing you in a survey of the unex- 
plored parts of the Coast of New South Wales, have 
commanded me to express their concurrence therein, and 
to convey to you the following instructions, to which you 
are to conform yourself, in addition to those which you 
may receive from the Secretary of State. 
The arrangements for providing you with a proper 
vessel and crew, and other necessaries for the prosecution 
of the service having been made by the Colonial Depart- 
ment, my Lords have no directions to give you on these 
subjects, but to recommend you in the conduct and 
discipline of the vessel which may be intrusted to your 
care, to conform, as far as may be practicable, to the 
established usages of the navy, and to the regulations 
