‘were no better than he was’ Nagle, pp. 73–74.
‘a promiscuous intercourse’ … ‘uncontrollable’ John White, Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, Angus &Robertson, Sydney, 1962 (1790), p. 63 (23 June 1787).
‘faint silvery vapour’ Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, Folio Society, London, 1967 (1879), p. 83.
‘Captain Phillip for the first time’ White, p. 69 (1 August 1787).
‘daughters of the sun’ David Collins, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales …, vol. 1, T Cadell & W Davies, London, 1798, facsimile edn, Libraries Board of South Australia, Adelaide, 1971, pp. xviii–xxi.
‘only out of absolute necessity’ Robert Ross to Philip Stephens, 10 July 1788, in HRNSW 1, p. 173.
‘many of whom are nearly naked’ Arthur Phillip to Evan Nepean, 2 September 1787, in HRNSW 1, p. 112.
‘We formed as tender an intercourse with them’ White, p. 87 (1 September 1787).
‘found on enquiry that the last year’s crops’ Arthur Phillip to Philip Stephens, 10 November 1787, in HRNSW 1, p. 118.
‘abounding with the most luxurious flowers and aromatic shrubs’ White, p. 81 (1 September 1787).
‘this is the last port’ Daniel Southwell to his mother, 11 November 1787, Daniel Southwell—Papers, M 1538, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.
‘Phillip’s Cabbin was like a small Green House’ Francis Masson to Joseph Banks, 13 November 1787, EN 1/36, Banks Collection, Sutro Library, San Francisco.
‘In a climate so favourable’ Phillip, (Stockdale), p. 129.
‘The land behind us was the abode of civilised people’ Collins, vol. 1, p. xxxiv.
‘I sentence you, but to what I know not’ J Bowring (ed.), The Works of Jeremy Bentham, vol. 1, Principles of Penal Law, William Tait, Edinburgh, 1843, book 5, chap. 2, ‘Of Transportation’.
‘extending well over a mile in length’ Robin Knox-Johnston, The Cape of Good Hope: A Maritime History, Hodder &Stoughton, London, 1989, p. 16.
‘for a thousand miles’ JR Bruijn, FS Gaastra & I Schöffer, Dutch-Asiatic Shipping in the 17th and 18th Centuries, vol. 1, Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1987, pp. 70–1.
‘as no Ship ever ran in this parallel of Latitude’ Philip Gidley King, p. 534 (7 December 1787).
‘it is better to trust a good lookout’ Rodger, The Wooden World, p. 48.
‘the Time Keeper was not thought of till about 6 o’clock’ Philip Gidley King, p. 535 (17 December 1787).
‘some very good altitudes were taken’ ibid, p. 535, setting out an extract from Mr Dawes’ journal.
‘useless for the rest of the passage’ James Campbell to Lord Ducie, 12 July 1788, nos 3–4, MLMSS 5366, Collection 16, First Fleet Collection of Journals, Correspondence and Drawings, Mitchell and Dixson libraries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.
‘Nothing could more strongly prove the excellence’ Collins, vol. 1, p. xxxvii.
‘almost constantly under water’ Philip Gidley King, p. 536 (18 December 1787).
‘crushed to atoms’ Bowes Smyth, p. 45 (29 November 1787).
‘poor creatures were frequently thrown’ John Hunter, journal, May 1787 – March 1791, DLMS 164, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, online at http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/albumView.aspx?acmsID=412913&itemID=823673, pp. 50–1 (1 January 1788).
‘very bright with many beautiful red’ Bradley, p. 51 (6 January 1788).
‘to prevent its being occupied’ ‘Phillip’s Instructions’, p. 89.
‘he might be known as a spy’ Frost, Arthur Phillip 1738–1814, p. 166.
CHAPTER 11 Governor
‘had the satisfaction of finding the finest harbour’ Arthur Phillip to Lord Sydney, 15 May 1788, in HRNSW 1, p. 122.
‘Port Jackson I believe to be’ White, p. 112 (26 January 1788).
‘one of the finest harbours in the world’ Ralph Clark, journal, 9 March 1787 – 17 June 1792, Safe 1/27a, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, online at http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/albumView.aspx?acmsID=412905&itemID=823869, p. 93 (26 January 1788).
‘made all around appear like an enchantment’ ‘Extracts from the Journal of Arthur Bowes’, HRNSW2, p.392 (26 January 1788).
‘we might not sully that purity’ … ‘the run of fresh water’ Collins, p. 5.
‘There are few things more pleasing’ Phillip, (Stockdale), p. 122.
‘warmth of temper’, Arthur Phillip to Evan Nepean, 12 February 1790 in HRNSW 1, pp. 301–04.
‘perverse, sullen, litigious and unhelpful’ Patrick O’Brian, Joseph Banks, Harvill, London, 1994, p. 261.
‘so little harmony prevails’ … ‘The strength of the [marine] detachment’ Arthur Phillip to Lord Sydney, 1 February 1790, in HRNSW 1, pp. 288–93.
‘an insult to the corps’ … ‘put the soldiers under the command’, ibid.
‘the marines and sailors are punished’ Bowes Smyth, p. 74 (23 February 1788).
‘the only difference between the allowance of provisions’ James Campbell to Lord Ducie, 12 July 1788, nos 3–4, MLMSS 5366, Collection 16, First Fleet Collection of Journals, Correspondence and Drawings, Mitchell and Dixson libraries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.
‘Could I possibly have imagined’ Robert Ross to Philip Stephens, 10 July 1788, in HRNSW 1, p. 174.
‘the Laws of this Country will of course be introduced’ Arthur Phillip, memorandum, c. October 1786, in HRNSW 1, p. 53.
‘civilly dead, unable to sue’ William Blackstone, Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 4, new edn, with notes by John Archbold, William Reed, London, 1811, pp. 373–82.
‘acquired an ascendancy over the convicts’ Collins, Vol. 1, p. 148.
‘this very industrious man’ Arthur Phillip to Lord Sydney, 12 February 1790, in HRNSW 1, pp. 296 and 299.
‘villains into villagers’ … ‘affording the political philosopher’ Grace Karskens, The Colony: A History of Early Sydney, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2009, p. 110.
‘conciliate the affections’ … ‘wantonly destroy them’ ‘Phillip’s Instructions’, p. 89.
‘cultivate an acquaintance with them’ WEH Stanner, ‘The History of Indifference Thus Begins’, Aboriginal History, Vol. 1, 1977, p.3.
‘symptoms of disgust and terror’ Tench, p. 102.
‘hopes that being cured and sent away’ Arthur Phillip to Lord Sydney, 13 February 1790, in HRNSW 1, p. 308.
‘nothing will make these people amends’ Arthur Phillip to Joseph Banks, 26 July 1790, series 37.12, section 7, Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, online at www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/banks/.
‘about three inches just behind the shoulder blade’ … ‘Let it be whatever it would’ Henry Waterhouse, ‘Account of Governor Phillip Being Wounded in September 1790 at New South Wales’, item 2, Papers Relating to Waterhouse Family and Bass Family, Aw 109, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.
‘in six weeks he was able to get about again’ ibid.; Bradley, p. 230.
‘I find my health declines fast’ … ‘getting little sleep’ Arthur Phillip to Joseph Banks, 26 July 1790, series 37.12, section 7, Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, online at www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/banks/.
‘For more than two years’ Arthur Phillip to Lord Sydney, 24 March 1791, in GR Tipping (ed.), The official Account through Governor Phillip’s Letters to Lord Sydney, GR Tipping, Beecroft, 1988, p. 115.
‘has almost worn me out’ Arthur Phillip to Joseph Banks, 23 April 1791, in Mackaness, pp. 333–34.
‘from a violent pain in the left kidney’ Arthur Phillip to Lord Sydney, 11 November 1791, in Tipping, p. 117.
‘sorry to inform them that [Phillip] was not very well’ Chapman, pp. 19–20.
‘private affairs’, Arthur Phillip to Lord Sydney, 15 April 1790 in HRNSW 1, p. 329; Arthur Phillip to Evan Nepean, 15 April 1790 in HRNSW 1, p. 330.
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‘induced to request permission’, Arthur Phillip to William Grenville, 21 November 1791 in HRNSW 1, p. 559.
‘as my bad state of health continues’ Arthur Phillip to Henry Dundas, 31 March 1792, in HRNSW 1, p. 613.
‘the wants of the colony’ Arthur Phillip to Henry Dundas, 2 October 1792, in HRNSW 1, p. 646.
‘obliges me to hope’ Arthur Phillip to Henry Dundas, 4 October 1792, in HRNSW 1, p. 651–2.
<‘the ill state of your health’ Henry Dundas to Arthur Phillip, 15 May 1792, in HRNSW 1, p. 625.
‘there is a possibility’ Arthur Phillip to Henry Dundas, 11 October 1792, in HRNSW 1, p. 666.
‘exhaustion of spirit and decay of body’ Frost, Arthur Phillip 1738–1814, p. 218.
‘I am blended in every concern of his’ ‘Collins, David (1756–1810)’, in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1966, p. 237.
CHAPTER 12 Society gentleman
‘the state of the colony’, John Easty, journal November 1786 – May 1793, DLSPENCER 374, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, online at http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/albumView.aspx?acmsID=412912&itemID=823440, pp. 143–74.
‘honoured with extraordinary attention’, Robert J King ‘Arthur Phillip, Defender of Colonia, Governor of New South Wales’, presented to the V Simpósio de Historia Maritimo e Naval Iber – Americano, Ilha Fiscal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 25–29 October, 1999.
‘grand and magnificent Romish churches’ … ‘the Ignorance of the Lower Class’ Easty, journal, (14 February 1793).
‘great disturbances’ … ‘every preparation for war’, Easty, journal, (23 February 1793).
‘our unspeakable joy’ Easty, journal, (23 May 1793).
‘private affairs’ Arthur Phillip to Lord Sydney, 15 April 1790, in HRNSW 1, p. 329; Arthur Phillip to Evan Nepean, 15 April 1790, in HRNSW 1, p. 330.
‘I well and sufficiently release’ ‘Will of Margaret Charlotte Philip Otherwise Charlott Phillip, Wife of Gloucester, Gloucestershire’, 6 October 1792, PROB 11/1224/98, NA.
‘but that I have been much indisposed’ Arthur Phillip to Lord Hawkesbury, 27 June 1793, fol. 44, Add MS 38229, vol. 40, Liverpool Papers, Western Manuscripts, British Library, London.
‘attaining any one of those places’ Arthur Phillip to Henry Dundas, 21 October 1793, in HRNSW 2, pp. 74–75.
‘either one of the Naval Boards’ ibid.
‘bleed and blister’ Jack Brook, ‘The Forlorn Hope: Bennelong and Yemmerrawannie Go to England’, Australian Aboriginal Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2001, p. 40.
‘at liberty to leave town’ … ‘in other respects be beneficial’ Arthur Phillip to Henry Dundas, 23 July 1793, in HRNSW 2, pp. 59–60.
‘The usual method’ … ‘the stone and gravel’ John Elliott, An Account of the Nature and Medicinal Virtues of the Principal Mineral Waters of Great Britain and Ireland, J Johnson, London, 1781, pp. 108, 115.
‘are moments snatched from Paradise’ … ‘dresses rustled, feathers waved’ Charles Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, vol. 2 in Charles Dickens, Complete Works Centennial Edition, Heron Books, London, 1967, p. 109.
‘are frequented by all fashionable people’ … ‘taste and character of individuals’ Lee Erickson, ‘The Economy of Novel Reading: Jane Austen and the Circulating Library’, Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, vol. 30, no. 4, 1990, pp. 574–75.
‘single man in possession of a good fortune’ Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice, Penguin Classics, London, 2003 (1813), opening sentence.
‘on matters relative to the colony’ Arthur Phillip to Henry Dundas, 21 October 1793, in HRNSW 2, p. 74.
‘individuals making fortunes’ Arthur Phillip to Joseph Banks, 7 September 1796, series 37.29, section 7, Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, online at www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/banks/.
‘a profession which is, if possible, more distinguished’ Jane Austen, Persuasion, Penguin Classics, London, 2003 (1818), final sentence.
CHAPTER 13 Inspector
‘My dear, invaluable friend’ Horatio Nelson to John Ball, 4 June 1801, in Henry Frendo, Ball, Sir Alexander John, Baronet (1756–1809), Naval officer and Politician in Malta, October 2007, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/1210.
‘one of the best ships’ Arthur Phillip to Evan Nepean, 17 February 1798, ADM 1/2317, NA.
‘exceedingly high and every one washing over us’ … ‘Well I remember his little figure’ Landmann, p. 123.
‘in most excellent order and fit for any service’ Horatio Nelson to Earl St Vincent, 9 June 1797, ADM 1/396, NA.
‘well-manned, commanded and appointed’ … ‘the moment he appears’ Earl St Vincent, letters, May and June 1797, fols 158, 168 & 171, Add MS 31166, British Library, London; Earl St Vincent to Evan Nepean, 26 June 1797, Earl St Vincent to Souza Coutinho, 26 June 1797, both in ADM 1/396, NA.
‘obliged to come on shore’ Arthur Phillip to Evan Nepean, 17 February 1798, ADM 1/2317, NA.
‘band of brothers’ See Brian Lavery, Nelson & the Nile: The Naval War against Bonaparte, 1798, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1998, p. 154.
‘I can hold out no hope of a ship’ Patrick O’Brian, Post Captain, HarperCollins, London, 2002 (1972), p. 141.
‘A List of Post Captains’ ‘Manuscript Book Listing Appointments to the 1798 Establishment, Instructions (Financial), Widows’ Charity, Other Appointments, Leave of Absences, Expense of the Service & Promiscuous. Index’, 1798–1810, ADM 28/147, pp. 16, 18, NA.
‘that your husband and all your friends’ … ‘Your friends still love you’ Arthur Phillip to Isabella Phillip, 4 October 1801, Bath Archives, Bath & North East Somerset Record Office, Bath.
‘for God’s sake let me hear no more’ … ‘I see no reason’ Arthur Phillip to Isabella Phillip, 24 April 1803, Bath Archives, Bath & North East Somerset Record Office, Bath.
‘Fourteen months spent on a trip’ Mackaness, p. 439.
‘We have often wondered’ Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz, vol. 1, in Charles Dickens, p. 154.
‘to calm the fears of old ladies’ The Letters and Papers of Admiral Viscount Keith vol.3, Navy Records Society, 1955, pp. 133–4, 155 and 168 in Christopher Lloyd, The British Seaman 1200–1860: A Social Survey, Paladin, London, 1970, p. 188.
‘for various causes’ Arthur Phillip to Lord Hobart, 5 April 1803, HRNSW 5, pp. 86–87.
‘a lofty dignified situation such as becomes a man of consequence’ Austen, Persuasion, p. 128.
‘the last nine stages of increasing splendour’ Patrick O’Brian, The Yellow Admiral, Harper Collins, London, 1997, p. 16.
CHAPTER 14 Final years
‘but not unpleasantly so’ Chapman, p. 36.
‘her upstairs parlour window’ Mackaness, p. 443-44.
‘taking the Bath air’ ibid, p. 443.
‘in quest of pastry, millinery, or… young men’ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Penguin Classics, London, 2003 [1818] p. 13.
‘the constant resort of his naval friends’ Mackaness, p. 449; Frost, Arthur Phillip 1738–1814, p. 252.
‘large and valuable quantity of silver’ Mackaness, p. 458.
‘as mad as a March hare’ Fanny Chapman, diary, 22 February 1808, in Frederick Chapman, p. 33.
‘very much altered’ … ‘may linger on some years’ Philip Gidley King to Phillip Parker King, July 1808, in Frederick Chapman, p. 35.
‘is quite a cripple’ Philip Gidley King to Phillip Parker King, September 1808, in Mackaness, p. 447.
‘under the advice of his friends’ Percival Serle (ed) ‘Greenway, Francis Howard (1777-1837)’ in Dictionary of Australian Biography, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1949, online at Gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/O-biog6.html#greenway1.
‘persons of great sanctity’ James Brooke Little, The Law of Burial, 3rd edn, Local Government Board and Home Office of Great Britain, London, 1902, p. 18.
‘on t
he former by an ignominious burial’ William Blackstone, Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, vol. 4, new edn, with notes by John Archbold, William Reed, London, 1811, p. 190.
‘the uniquely English tradition’ Roy Strong, Visions of England, Bodley Head, London, 2011, p. 101.
‘quite an ugly little man’ Mackaness, p. 456.
‘in the backroom on the drawing-room floor’ ibid., p. 457.
‘to the other side of the world’ EM Green, ‘Arthur Phillip: An Unwritten Chapter’, in Harry Wilson & Edward Salmon (eds), United Empire: The Royal Colonial Institute Journal, vol. 12, new series, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, London, 1921, p. 734; see also Frost, Arthur Phillip 1738–1814, p. 112.
‘all her share of the property was lost in the costs of a Chancery suit’, Arthur Phillip Lancefield, letter, 8 March 1899, in Becke & Jeffery, pp. 256–58.
‘the most valuable acquisition Great Britain ever made’ Arthur Phillip to Lord Sydney, 9 July 1788, in HRNSW 1, p. 151.
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