The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay

The Voyage of Governor Phillip
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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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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
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.
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