336 I^OSE HILL. 1788 Your lordship will see by the returns the State of the garrison 28 Sept and the provisions remaining in store. What the Sirius will bring will be mostly flour, and that she may take on board as large a quantity as possible, I have ordered some of her guns to be landed. Regular I presume that your lordship will see the necessity of this colony suppiieg* having always a certain quantity of provisions in store. As soon as the Sirius sails, I intend going up the harbour to the ground pointed out in my former letters as more easily cultivated Going to ^^an the lands round us, with a small detachment, consisting of RoeeHiiL j.^^ lieutenants, one captain, and twenty-five non-commissioned officers and privates, and forty or fifty convicts, who will be employed in cultivating the ground. I purpose remaining with this party until they are settled, and have no doubt, when settlers Free settlers CO™© out and proper people to superintend the convicts that will teadente'*" ^ employed for the Crown, but that two or three years will give this country a very difierent aspect, and in the meantime the clearing the ground near the settlement shall not be neglected. The hutting the detachment has been going on under the direction of the Major-Commandant The officers have all separate houses, and, except one or two, are now under cover. The barracks are Military Still in hand. There being some carpenters and sawyers in the mechan cs. ^jiflfgreji^ companies, I ordered them to be employed as such ; and it being customary to pay the soldiers when so employed, and Major EiOss thinking they could not otherwise be set to work as artificers, I have enclosed this report of such as have been employed for your lordship's approbation. Major Ross's I have likewise the honor of enclosing your lordship his returns returns. ^£ ^^^j^ officers as wish to }ye relieved at the expiration of the three years for which they wore sent out, and of those who are desirous of remaining ; as likewise copies of his letter and my answer, respecting the encouragement offered by Grovemment to settlers. Marines The Kst of officers and men who wished to be relieved ?(Sli.*** at the expiration of their term of three years shows that out of the total number of one hundred and sixty privates there was only one man who desired to remain as a settler ; and only two officers — Tench and Dawes — with one pri- vate, who would remain as soldiers for another term of three years.* Three officers, of whom one was Lieutenant
- The list appears in Phillip's Voyage, p. 174, dated Ist October, 1788.
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