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he had taken under his care 5 ’^ and that^ ^^such protec¬ 
tion could not fail to excite the gratitude of the 
Missionaries^ and the friendship of King George."^ 
Governor Macquarie, his successor, manifested the 
same kindness towards the Missionaries, and an 
equal regard for the welfare and security of the natives. 
In order to protect the inhabitants of New Zealand and 
the South Sea Islands from the oppression, violence, 
and murder, of unprincipled and lawless Europeans, 
he issued, in December, 1813, an order, alike creditable 
to the enlightened policy of his administration, and the 
benevolence of his heart. A copy was brought to the 
Society Islands, and is here inserted. 
Government and General Orders^ dated Dec, 1, 1813. 
No ship or vessel shall clear out from any of the ports within this 
territory, (New South Wales,) for New Zealand, or any other island in 
the South Pacific, unless the Master, if of British or Indian, or the 
Master and Owners, if of Plantation Registry, shall enter into bonds 
with the Naval Officer, under £1000 penalty, that themselves and crew 
shall properly demean themselves towards the natives; and not commit 
acts of trespass on their gardens, lands, habitations, burial grounds, 
tombs, or properties, and not make war, or at all interfere in their 
quarrels, or excite any animosities among them, but leave them to the 
free enjoyment of their rites and ceremonies; and not take from the 
islands any male native, without his own and his chief’s and parents’ 
consent; and shall not take from thence any female native, without the 
like consent—or, in case of shipping any male natives, as mariners, 
divers, &c. then, at theii' own request at any time, to discharge them, first 
paying them all wages, &c. And, the natives of all the said islands 
being under His Majesty’s protection, all acts of rapine, plunder, piracy, 
murders, or other outrages against their persons or property, will, upon 
conviction, be severely punished.” 
Ill reference to another Order resembling this, and 
issued Nov. 19^ 1814^ it is declared^ that-— 
