When The Judge Advocate Had Finished Reading,
His Excellency Addressed Himself To The Convicts In A Pointed And Judicious
Speech,
Informing them of his future intentions, which were, invariably
to cherish and render happy those who shewed a disposition to
Amendment;
and to let the rigour of the law take its course against such as might dare
to transgress the bounds prescribed. At the close three vollies were fired
in honour of the occasion, and the battalion marched back to their parade,
where they were reviewed by the Governor, who was received with all the honours
due to his rank. His Excellency was afterwards pleased to thank them,
in public orders, for their behaviour from the time of their embarkation;
and to ask the officers to partake of a cold collation at which it is
scarce necessary to observe, that many loyal and public toasts were drank
in commemoration of the day.
In the Governor's commission, the extent of this authority is defined to reach
from the latitude of 43 deg 49 min south, to the latitude of 10 deg 37 min
south, being the northern and southern extremities of the continent of New
Holland. It commences again at 135th degree of longitude east of Greenwich,
and, proceeding in an easterly direction, includes all islands within
the limits of the above specified latitudes in the Pacific Ocean.
By this partition it may be fairly presumed, that every source of future
litigation between the Dutch and us will be for ever cut off,
as the discoveries of English navigators alone are comprized in this territory.
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