Spencer's Gulf, together with the island called Kangaroo and other islands adjacent.
"It is deemed proper here to call the attention of His Majesty's Government to the boundaries of New South Wales, more especially as the promoters of the colony find it said, in Barrington's "New South Wales," vol. i., p. 50 (upon what authority, however, is not known), that on the landing of Governor Philip at New South Wales, some document (whether a Royal Commission or Letters Patent is uncertain) was read by the Governor, by which the colony was found to extend as far westward as the 135th degree of east longitude, including the adjacent islands.
"It is hoped that no impediment will arise through this circumstance to the foundation of the colony on the site proposed, as, if the boundary of New South Wales should be considered as unchangeably fixed by the declaration alluded to, the proposed colony would be deprived of every safe harbour hitherto discovered on that part of the Australian continent, and no inducement would remain for founding the proposed colony. It is, moreover, suggested that no injury would be done to any individual in New South Wales by the boundary being altered if it has been considered settled. On the contrary, that great benefit would arise to every resident in that colony by the settlement of what cannot yet be said to be even their actual frontier.
"(2) The promoters of this plan acquiesce in this proposition, subject to the provision that in the event of the plan of founding the colony being at any time relinquished, or of the colony, if founded, being given up, the company shall not be liable to the continuance of the annual payment hereinafter mentioned; but in either of such events, the expense of removing the emigrants who had been taken to the colony through the medium of the company, to the nearest settlement, to be borne by the company.
