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Title: The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay
With An Account Of The Establishment Of The Colonies Of Port Jackson
And Norfolk Island (1789)

Author: Arthur Phillip
Release Date: February 18, 2005 [EBook #15100]
Language: English
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK VOYAGE TO BOTANY BAY ***
Produced by Col Choat
The Voyage
of
Governor Phillip
to
Botany Bay
with an
Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of
Port Jackson and Norfolk Island;
compiled from Authentic Papers,
which have been obtained from the several Departments
to which are added
the Journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball
and Capt. Marshall
with an Account of their New Discoveries,
embellished with fifty five Copper Plates,
the Maps and Charts taken from Actual Surveys,
and the plans and views drawn on the spot,
by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts,
Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, etc.London
Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly
1789
Arthur Phillip Esq.
Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over
the Territory of New South Wales
TO THE MOST NOBLE
THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY,
LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS MAJESTY'S HOUSEHOLD,
ETC., ETC.
THIS VOLUME,CONTAINING ALL THAT IS YET KNOWN OF THE
SETTLEMENT AT SYDNEY COVE,
IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY
HIS LORDSHIP'S
MUCH OBLIGED, AND
MOST FAITHFUL
HUMBLE SERVANT,
JOHN STOCKDALE.
NOVEMBER 25, 1789.
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ANECDOTES OF GOVERNOR PHILLIP.
Arthur Phillip is one of those officers, who, like Drake, Dampier, and Cook, has
raised himself by his merit and his services, to distinction and command. His
father was Jacob Phillip, a native of Frankfort, in Germany, who having settled
in England, maintained his family and educated his son by teaching the
languages. His mother was Elizabeth Breach, who married for her first
husband, Captain Herbert of the navy, a kinsman of Lord Pembroke. Of her
marriage with Jacob Phillip, was her son, Arthur, born in the parish of
Allhallows, Bread-street, within the city of London, on the 11th of October, 1738.
Being designed for a seafaring life, he was very properly sent to the school of
Greenwich, where he received an education suitable to his early propensities.
At the age of sixteen, he began his maritime career, under the deceased
Captain Michael Everet of the navy, at the commencement of hostilities, in
1755: and at the same time that he learned the rudiments of his profession
under that able officer, he partook with him in the early misfortunes, and
subsequent glories of the seven years war. Whatever opulence Phillip acquired
from the capture of the Havannah, certain it is, that, at the age of twenty-three,
he there was made a Lieutenant into the Stirling-castle, on the 7th of June,
1761, by Sir George Pococke, an excellent judge of naval accomplishments.
But of nautical exploits, however they may raise marine officers, there must be
an end. Peace, with its blessings, was restored in 1763. And Phillip now found
leisure to marry; and to settle at Lyndhurst, in the New Forest, where he
amused himself with farming, and like other country gentlemen, discharged
assiduously those provincial offices, which, however unimportant, occupy
respectably the owners of land, who, in this island, require no office to make
them important.
But sailors, like their own element, are seldom at rest. Those occupations,
which pleased Phillip while they were new, no longer pleased him when they
became familiar. And he hastened to offer his skill and his services to Portugal
when it engaged in warfare with Spain. His offer was readily accepted,
because such skill and services were necessary amidst an arduous struggle
with a too powerful opponent. And, such was his conduct and such his
success, that when the recent interference of France, in 1778, made it his duty
to fight for his king, and to defend his country, the Portugueze court regretted
his departure, but applauded his motive.
His return was doubtless approved by those who, knowing his value, could
advance his rank: For he was made master and commander into the Basilisk
fireship, on the 2d of September, 1779. But in her he had little opportunity of
displaying his zeal, or of adding to his fame. This step, however, led him up to a
higher situation; and he was made post-captain into the Ariadne frigate, on the
13th of November, 1781, when he was upwards of three and forty. This is the
great epoch in the lives of our naval officers, because it is from this that they
date their rank. In the Ariadne, he had little time for active adventures, or for
gainful prizes, being appointed to the Europe of sixty-four guns, on the 23d of
December, 1781. During the memorable year 1782, Phillip promoted its
enterprises, and shared in its glories. And in January, 1783, he sailed with a
reinforcement to the East Indies, where superior bravery contended against
superior force, till the policy of our negotiators put an end to unequal hostilities
by a necessary peace.
The activity, or the zeal of Phillip, was now turned to more peaceful objects.
And when it was determined to form a settlement on that part of New Holland,
denominated New South Wales, he was thought of as a proper officer to
conduct an enterprize, which required professional knowledge, and habitual
prudence. His equipment, his voyage, and his settlement, in the otherhemisphere, will be found in the following volume. When the time shall arrive
that the European settlers on Sydney Cove demand their historian, these
authentic anecdotes of their pristine legislator will be sought for as curious, and
considered as important.
ERRATA (These have been corrected in this
eBook)
Page, line
1, 15, for enterprizes, read enterprises.
13, penult. for only fifty, read an hundred.
Ibid. ult. for Penryn, read Penrhyn.
75, 7, for Surprize, read Surprise.
87, 14, after 17, dele th.
96, 13, for into, read in.
149, 10, for Kangooroo, read Kanguroo. The orthography of a word derived
only from oral sound is in some degree arbitrary; but it ought to be consistant.
The plates, by mistake, have Kangooroo. 185, 14, for it were were, read if it
were.
203, 3, for Fobn, read Thomas.
213, 10, for four, read forty.
228, 23, bis, for Macauley, read Macaulay.
231, 15, for Patri, read Pabi.
252, Margin, for May, read June.
253, Ditto.
255, Margin, for July, read June.
256, Ditto.
232, 18, for Taha, read Toha.
242, 9, for who, read whom.
246, 25, for veer'd, read near'd.
N. B. Some of the early impressions of the plates have erroneously Wulpine
Oppossum for Vulpine Opossum. After a few were work'd off the fault was
perceived, and corrected.
ADVERTISEMENT.
The arrangement of materials in this volume being in some respects less
perfect than might be wished, it is necessary that something should be said to
obviate any imputation of negligence. The truth will be the best, and, as it
ought, the only apology. The official papers of Governor Phillip, which were
liberally communicated by Government, formed at first our principal source of
intelligence. These, from their nature, could contain but little information on
subjects of natural history, and many other points, concerning which the
curiosity of every reader would naturally be excited. The efforts of the publisher
to give satisfaction to the public in these respects produced a gradual influx of
materials; and the successive arrival of different vessels from the Indian seas,
occasioned additions to the work, which made it necessary to engrave new
plates. While, therefore, the completion of the book was anxiously pressed by
many who were eager to possess it, that desirable point has constantly been
deferred by the communications of those who were studious to render it more
valuable; and the word Finis, has seemed to fly from us, like Italy before the
wandering Trojans. From the combination of these circumstances it has arisen,
that every separate part has been hurried on in the execution; and yet, in the
finishing of the whole, more time has elapsed, than would have been
necessary to complete a much more ample volume. The defects that proceed
from these causes, it is hoped, the reader will forgive, and accept with
complacency a volume in which, it is confidently hoped, nothing material has
been omitted that is connected with its principal object, the formation of a
settlement promising both glory and advantage to this country; in which several
important discoveries are announced; no small accession is made to the stores
of natural history; and interesting notices are communicated of countries visited
before, and persons in whose fate the public has long felt an interest.
The publisher thinks it his duty, in this place, to return thanks to the following
noblemen and gentlemen, for their kind assistance and free communications.