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 71 DESPATCHES FROM ENGLAND. Bt the Lady Juliana^ PhUlip receiyed a despatch^ dated 1789 20th June, 1789 * from the Right Hon. William Wyndham Theunt Grenville^t in which the despatches sent from Port Jackson fr^ in the previous year were acknowledged. The despatches °^ written by Phillip in May, Jtdy, September, October, and November, 1788, were sent to England by different trans- ports; but, as it happened, all the vessels, with the ex- ception of the Friendship, which was scuttled at sea on the hom^eward voyage, arrived at about the same time,t ?*^^"ft and the . British Government was placed in possession, almost at once, of the history of the settlement from its foundation in January, 1788, to the 16th November of the same year. Phillip would have been more than mortal if he had not felt some disappointment when he read Grenville's despatch. It was the first communication he had received from the Nature Government since he left England more than three years oontente. before, and it was, at the same time, a reply to a number of his own letters in which he had given an account of the voyage and the establishment of the settlement, a t Aiterwaids Baron Gh^nyille, succeeded Lord Sydney as Secretary of State for the Home Department on 5th June, 1789. On the 8th June, 1791, he accepted the portfolio of Secretaiy of Foreign Affairs, and was succeeded at the Home Omce by Henry Pundas (afterwards Yisooimt MelYille). — Dictionary of Kational Biography, vol. zxiii, pp. 138-138. X ** The transports which sailed hence in May, July, and Kovember, 1789 (the Friendship excepted),, arrived in England wiUiin. a very short time of each other, and their arrival relieved the public from anxiety on our account." — Collins, toI. i, p. 118.
 * Historical Records, toI. i, part 2, p. 252.