officers. The house of Cainphell and Co- ** pleaded iiintrutha" to the Governor-General in India. The state- Qients of their partner in Sydney proved that they had "done 80. **This condm;t/' King wrote (14th Aug, 1B04),
- ill accords with the duty a merchant enjoying the ijrotec-
tion of a |:;overnment owes to the local regulations for ensuring the prosperity of the society he lives in, and )y whom he lives.** The Governor-General in India, on receiving King's com- plaints, ordered the re-lauding of certain spirits from a vessel in whicdi they had heen placed for exportation to Byduey on false representations. In Aug, 1804 King thanked him for the attention thus paid to his remon- strances. In reporting all the facts to Lord Hohart {14fch mg, 1804), King said: ** I have no view to injure Mr. !!^amphell, who I helieve in every other circumstance has icted with a heeoming propriety, and is deserving of svery other encouragement iwcept forcing spirits on the Tile devices of importers were numerous. A small vessel, the Fair Afmnrttu, was consigned to Campbell and Co. under American colours, on the pretext of importing Battle, of which '* two arrived, hut a considerable object was favour of ofli^ers of the New South Wales Corps atiU Hubahtcd" under King ; that King dispensed '^* with liberaUty t^nd profiiaion to emancipated. onvicta, litenses to sell vum f aud that a general dissobition of morals Lid a general i^laxation of penal diacipline were the result of a state Mnga so outra|Lieoualy prepogteroiis/'" It is difficult to inmgine whence nents so utterly untrue t'oidri have been derived^ or on what plea they rconoocted* The "General Orders" publialied in Sydney gave ample iroof of the truth, and on other pointa hiuig often quoted them. Other Fiiters havcj followed Lang'n errors. His unfounded statement that Bligh I'as '* enjoined" to break up "the nionatrons system" by which otiieers, ivil and military, trathckeil in spirits, probably deceived eonie writers ; "act being that though the Royal instructions to Bligh were in their Ell ternm siunlar to those connnuiiicated to the otficers by King (as ained in ihe text), the special statement that officers had entered into nioi^t luiwarrantablo tnifiic" was omitted from the inatnictiona to Jligh, as published by Lang himself. Even the general instrnctiona might mislead the careless, or those who, not knownag of the previous njore pointed instructions to King, imagined that any new duty waa imposed on Bligh in the matter, and were ignorant that the reproach agUiinst the otticers was withdrawn from the Royal instructions to 31igh because the evil complained of had been removed by Blights predecessor.
