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POLYNESIAN RESEARCHES, 
after the passing of this Act, all murders and manslaughters committed, or 
that shall be committed, in the said islands of New Zealand and Otaheite, or 
within any other islands, countries, or places, not within His Majesty’s 
dominions, nor subject to any European state or power, nor within the 
territory of the United States of America, by the master or crew of any 
British ship, or vessel, or any of them, or by any person sailing in, or 
belonging thereto; or that shall have sailed in, or belonged to, and have 
quitted any British ship, or vessel, to live in any of the said islands, 
countries, or places, or either of them, or that shall be there living, shall 
and may be tried, and adjudged, and punished, in any of His Majesty’s 
islands, plantations, colonies, dominions, forts, or factories, under or by 
virtue of the King’s commission, or commissions, which shall have been, 
or may hereafter be issued, under and by virtue, and in pursuance, of an 
Act passed in the forty-sixth year of His present Majesty, entitled, an Act 
for the more speedy trial of offences committed in distant countries, or 
upon the sea/' 
By the Porpoise^ they also received the agreeable 
intelligence that a ship, with a reinforcement of Mission¬ 
aries, and necessary supplies from England, was on her 
way to the islands. In the afternoon of the 10th of 
July, 1801, the Royal Admiral, commanded by Captain 
W. Wilson, anchored in the bay, having a number of 
Missionaries on board, together with supplies and letters 
from their friends and the directors, from whom they 
had heard only once, during the four years they had 
dwelt on the island. Mr. Shelly, one of the Missionaries 
who had been stationed in the Friendly Islands, but had 
escaped to New South Wales, returned to Tahiti in this 
ship, and was cordially welcomed by the Missionaries, 
along with those who had arrived from England. 
On the I3th of July, 1801, Captain Wilson, and the 
eight Missionaries from England, landed near Point 
Venus, and were introduced to Otu, Pomare, and other 
principal chiefs, by whom they were welcomed to Tahiti. 
Pomare said he was pleased with their arrival, and ex- 
