To Add To The Good Disposition Which Was Beginning To Manifest Itself,
On The Morning Of The 20th, In Consequence
Of some favorable representations
made by the officers commanding detachments, they were hailed and told
from the Sirius, that in
Those cases where they judged it proper,
they were at liberty to release the convicts from the fetters in which
they had been hitherto confined. In complying with these directions,
I had great pleasure in being able to extend this humane order to the whole
of those under my charge, without a single exception. It is hardly necessary
for me to say, that the precaution of ironing the convicts at any time
reached to the men only.
In the evening of the same day, the Hyena left us for England, which afforded
an early opportunity of writing to our friends, and easing their apprehensions
by a communication of the favourable accounts it was in our power to send them.
From this time to the day of our making the land, little occurred
worthy of remark. I cannot, however, help noticing the propriety of employing
the marines on a service which requires activity and exertion at sea,
in preference to other troops. Had a regiment recruited since the war
been sent out, sea-sickness would have incapacitated half the men
from performing the duties immediately and indispensably necessary;
whereas the marines, from being accustomed to serve on board ship,
accommodated themselves with ease to every exigency, and surmounted
every difficulty.
At daybreak, on the morning of the 30th of May we saw the rocks named
the Deserters, which lie off the south-east end of Madeira; and found
the south-east extremity of the most southerly of them, to be in the latitude
of 32 deg 28 min north, longitude 16 deg 17 1/2 min west of Greenwich.
The following day we saw the Salvages, a cluster of rocks which are placed
between the Madeiras and Canary Islands, and determined the latitude
of the middle of the Great Salvage to be 30 deg 12 min north, and the longitude
of its eastern side to be 15 deg 39 min west.
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