PITCAIRN FUND COMMITTEE. 249 
This view of the subject was duly communi- 
cated, in July, 1854, to the Government. Both 
in the general measure, however, of the transfer 
from Pitcairn to Norfolk Island, and in all its 
details, the Government took such a course as 
seemed to them the best. To the Government 
belongs the credit of the act, in the execution 
of which they evidently proceeded in accord- 
ance with what they deemed to be the wishes 
of the islanders themselves, who, as it will 
be seen, repeated their entreaty to Captain 
fremantle, on his visit to Pitcairn, in Sep- 
tember, 1855, that they might be permitted 
to live on Norfolk Island, in the same kind of 
seclusion from the rest of the world as they had 
lived at Pitcairn. 
Allusion having been made to the Pitcairn 
Fund Committee, it is time to add a few words 
relative to their efforts for the Islanders. 
In consequence of the scanty resources of 
Pitcairn' s Island, some noblemen and gentlemen 
were induced, on the recommendation of Sir F. 
Moresby, with the aid of Lady Moresby, Captain 
and Mrs. Prevost, and Mr. and Mrs. White, of 
Grantham, to raise a fund for the passage and 
outfit of Mr. Nobbs, after his ordination, and 
for the supply of such things as were deemed 
requisite for the inhabitants. Labourers' and 
carpenters' tools, a proper bell for the church, 
medicines, a few clocks, clothing of various 
sorts, simple articles of furniture, cooking utensils, 
&c, were required. 
The first meeting of the Committee was held 
at the Admiralty, Somerset House, on the 3rd of 
