attiintioii is not paid to these Oidei-B. and such shanieftd conduct in thftl people more rigidly looked after, the Uoveruor ia resolved to shut up every! publioliouae, and to prosecute with the ytmo»t rigour all who shall attempt J to retail stroug licpiors without regiikr permission." Hunter repeated his Orders in 1709 and 1800, Kingcon- lirmed them in October 1800, aod added: — '*A11 sentinels^ and watchmen are to confine every person who may l>dH strohhig about the towns of Sydney and Parramatta during the houry of Divine service." The missionaries who took refu<];6 in Sydney when driven from Tahiti in 1798, were kindly received by Governor Hunter; and Mr. Johnson, the chaplain, testified to the Chin'ch Missionary Society that several of them had *^ al- niOBt from the first gone to the settlsments established in different parts of the colony to preach and exhort amongst^ the settlers/' Mr, Johnson's retirement in 1801 leftW Samuel Marsden in the post of principal chaplam, and King's despatches (1804) prove that the missionaries still J laboured. H
- For tho last three yearis we have had hut one regular clergyman, who
does duty on Sunday morning at Sydney, and in the afternoon at Parra- luattftt rttid generally ouce in the week he visits one of the out districts for J this purpose ; and &o senRible liave T l>een, in conformity with my early! education, of enforcing an altemlance to reiigioua duties, that I have! cauacil three miasionaries, formerly at Tahiti, with their families, to he I victualled, and receive other indulgences, as a recompense for their reading I prayers and preaching every Sunday at those settlement!* that the Rev. S» I Marsdeii cannot attend, and I am happy to awaure your Lordship, from my" own knowledge, that those religions meetings a-re duly and numerously attended." In another despatch liing mentioned that he had given i conditional emancipation to the Eev. Mr, Fulton, '*sent| from Ireland for seditious practices/' and '* directed him to| perform Divine Service at Norfolk Island," Mr. Fulton's conduct after arriving m the colony havinjiij been '* most exemplary/' Mr. Fulton belonged to the Church of Eng^fl land. " The appointment of the Eoman Catholic priest, Dixon* was discontinued in 1804, when the rebellion showed that if he was loyal he was unable to control his coimtrymen» while if he was disloyal there was no need to encourage i him. When news of the Battle of Trafalgar reached Sydney,! ibe next Sunday was appointed as a Day of Thanksgiving.)
