The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay | Page 3

useful knowledge may be
found in their journals, which they communicated with a
disinterestedness that the publisher will be always happy to
acknowledge.
ACCOUNT OF THE VIGNETTE.
The elegant vignette in the title-page, was engraved from a medallion
which the ingenious Mr. Wedge-wood caused to be modelled from a
small piece of clay brought from Sydney Cove. The clay proves to be
of a fine texture, and will be found very useful for the manufactory of
earthern ware. The design is allegorical; it represents Hope encouraging
Art and Labour, under the influence of Peace, to pursue the
employments necessary to give security and happiness to an infant
settlement. The following verses upon the same subject, and in allusion
to the medallion, were written by the author of The Botanic Garden,
and will speak more powerfully for themselves than any encomium we
could bestow.
VISIT OF HOPE TO SYDNEY-COVE, NEAR BOTANY-BAY.

Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells, Courts her young navies,
and the storm repels; High on a rock amid the troubled air HOPE stood
sublime, and wav'd her golden hair; Calm'd with her rosy smile the
tossing deep, And with sweet accents charm'd the winds to sleep; To
each wild plain she stretch'd her snowy hand, High-waving wood, and
sea-encircled strand. "Hear me," she cried, "ye rising Realms! record
"Time's opening scenes, and Truth's unerring word.-- "There shall
broad streets their stately walls extend, "The circus widen, and the
crescent bend; "There, ray'd from cities o'er the cultur'd land, "Shall
bright canals, and solid roads expand.-- "There the proud arch,
Colossus-like, bestride "Yon glittering streams, and bound the chasing
tide; "Embellish'd villas crown the landscape-scene, "Farms wave with
gold, and orchards blush between.-- "There shall tall spires, and
dome-capt towers ascend, "And piers and quays their massy structures
blend; "While with each breeze approaching vessels glide, "And
northern treasures dance on every tide!"-- Then ceas'd the
nymph--tumultuous echoes roar, And JOY's loud voice was heard from
shore to shore-- Her graceful steps descending press'd the plain, And
PEACE, and ART, and LABOUR, join'd her train.
VIEW of the FLEET and ESTABLISHMENT sent out with
GOVERNOR PHILLIP to NEW SOUTH WALES.
Captain ARTHUR PHILLIP of the Navy, Governor and Commander in
Chief of the territory of New South Wales, and of his Majesty's ships
and vessels employed on that coast.
Major Robert Ross, Lieutenant Governor. Richard Johnson, Chaplain.
Andrew Miller, Commissary. David Collins, Judge Advocate. John
Long, Adjutant. James Furzer, Quarter-Master. *George Alexander,
Provost Martial. John White, Surgeon. Thomas Arndell, Assistant Ditto.
William Balmain, Ditto Ditto.
His Majesty's ship Sirius, Captain Arthur Phillip. Captain John Hunter.
His Majesty's armed tender Supply, Lieutenant H. L. Ball.
Six transports carrying the convicts. Alexander 210 men convicts.
women convicts. Scarborough 210 men convicts. Friendship 80 men
convicts. 24 Charlotte 100 men convicts. 24 Prince of Wales -- -- 100
Lady Penrhyn -- -- 102
Each transport had a detachment of marines on board.
Three store ships:

The Golden Grove, Fishburn, and Borrowdale; With provisions,
implements for husbandry, cloathing, etc. for the convicts.
Lieutenant John Shortland, agent for the transports.
The garrison is formed from the marines.
Distribution of the Detachment of MARINES for NEW SOUTH
WALES, with the Number embarked on board of each of the
Transports upon that Service.
Ships |Names |Captains |Subs|Serj-|Corp-|Drum and|Privates|Embarked|
Names |of Officers | | |eants|orals|fife | | |
Lady Captain Campbell 1 2 0 0 0 3 Portsmouth Penrhyn Lieut G.
Johnston Lieut. Wm Collins
Scarb- Captain Shea 1 2 2 2 1 26 Portsmouth orough Lieutenant
Kellow Lieutenant Morrison
Friend- Capt. Lieut. Meredith 1 2 2 3 1 36 Plymouth ship Lieutenant
Clarke Lieutenant Faddy
Charl- Captain Tench 1 2 3 3 1 34 Plymouth otte Lieutenant Cresswell
Lieutenant Poulden
Alex- Lieutenant J. Johnston 0 2 2 2 1 30 Woolwich. ander Lieutenant
Shairp
Prince Lieutenant Davy 0 2 2 2 1 25 of Lieutenant Timmins Wales
Provost Martial --------------------------------------- 4 12 11 12 5 154 put
on board his Majesty's ship 0 0 1 0 3 6 Sirius, as supernumeraries.
--------------------------------------- Total of the detachment 4 12 12 12 8
160 ---------------------------------------
Forty women, wives to the Marines, permitted to go out with the
Garrison.
CONTENTS

Chapter I
.
Public utility of voyages--Peculiar circumstances of this--New Holland
properly a continent--Reasons for fixing our settlement
there--Transportation to America, its origin, advantages, and
cessation--Experiments made--The present plan
adopted--Disadvantages of other expedients.

Chapter II
.
Preparation of the fleet ordered to Botany Bay.--Particulars of its
arrangement.--Departure and passage to the Canary Isles.

Chapter III
.
Reasons for touching at the Canary Isles--Precautions for preserving
Health--Their admirable Success--Some Account of the
Canaries--Fables respecting them--Attempt of a Convict to
escape--Departure. Report of the Marines and Convicts under medical
treatment, June 4, 1787

Chapter IV
.
Attempt to put in at