de coups,'* Eing replied, ** Je sius sensible de cette marque de votre attention et j'ai donne les ordres qu'oii rendera coup pour coup de la forteresse.'* The Cftsmmna had been pur- chased hy Baudin in Sydney from a private person, after apijlication had been made to the Governor for permission, Avhicli be gave in the interests of ** science and navigation.*' After these events the raiBunderstanding occurred which ^caused Captain Kemp to apologize to the French officers for circulating imputations that they had '* vendu de rum pour de Targent ;'* and simultaneously, Colonel Paterson (9th Oct.) made common cause with his recalcitrant officers by declaring that Barrallier and Dr. Harris could no longer be allowed to do any except their military service. Then followed the ajipointment of an eraaneipated bodyguard for the Governor (12th Oct.) ; the Colonial Commission to Mr. Bellasis (14th Oct.); the Com*ts-martial on Dr. Harris and Adjutant Mhichin ; orders that the Loyal Association, though not embodied canstantly, should be ** exercised'* monthly ; and the appointment of Captain Kent of H.M.S. Biiffido to act as a magistrate throughout the territory and its dependencies. It was convenient to have a naval magis- trate, as the Governor assumed a jurisdiction overfishing. A French schooner, the SitrprisCj arrived in Sept. 1802. She needed repairs. King consented that she might receive tbem, and sell bo much of her cargo as might disburse her expenses; but observing that her clearance from the Mauritius contemplated ** a sealing voyage on the coast ^o( New Uolland/* told M- le Corre, the commander, that had no instructions to permit such an enterprise by foreigners. He would give no general permission, but rather than inflict unlooked-for hardship on M. le Corre he would allow him, on this occasion, to catch seals within the terri- tories^ provided he would not intrude at Cape Barron and adjacent islands, and at King's Island, where King had given exclusive privileges to certain colonists. He suspected some designs of occupation, for within live days of thus warning Le Corre he provided an English vessel, the Endeavonr (about to cruise in Bass's Straits), with two flags, one of which the master was to ** hoist and keep flying during the stay" of any vessel at any island where the £ndearour might be. The French explorers did not forget
