■n re-transmission to Sydney, or to take tliem to England no ship was about to sail to Australia from India, that Flinders did he was to report in England. The Governor-General in India was as arbitrary as the Governor in Sydney- A convict was landed in Calcutta in 18Q0 from the ship IInnt(U commanded by one Hingston, The Marquis Wellesley directed the seizure of Hingston and his ship, and that steps should be taken to condemn the vessel and all the *' persons engaged in an ilHcit trade in India in violation of the chartered rights" of the East India Company, The alarmed Hingston falsely averred that he had gone to India with the approbation of Governor Himter, and the Marquis relented. King ex- posed Kingston's fraud, and hoiked (Get. 1801) that the Indian Government would put no faith in similar declara- tions made by persons not holding
- my peimiasion in writing, which will never be granted except in siiyli
t:ti9€s of necessity aa are at present unforeseen, . . , I feel much obliged by your ExceUency*s wish to promote tlie interests of thia colony* itnd you may rest assured that nci exertions shall be wanting on my part to prevent tfie emigration of any description of people from this colony tn any port in Inrlia. King sent (1802) to the East India Company's super- cargo at Canton lists of all persons permitted by liim to leave the colony, and suggested that passengers in ships sailing from the colony by ^vay of China to England should be mustered on arrival at, and departm-e from, Macao, By these means he preserved the goodwill of the Governor' General, which was of no slight benefit to the strugglmg colony, sorely in need of food and live stock in the beginnin*: of the century. American vessels sinned against the Ordinances of the ' Governor, In 1804 two of them Avere ordered to leave the ■ harbom^ at a few hours' notice. In 1B06 another American " vessel, having shipped a British subject contrary to law, was forbidden to land any part of her cargo. M Port Jackson saw strange scenes in the beginning of tha W century- In 1806 there was a mutiny on board the colonial schooner Gtwernor Iluntar, All persons '"concerned in colonial vessels were ordered to cause the people they employed to go on board some of the vessels in the Cove at 8 ii*m, to witness the pnniishment to be inflicted on these i
