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xxvi purchase any suitable one that might be offered for sale.

For my guidance I received the following instructions from the Admiralty. and the Colonial Department :-

Admiralty Office, 4th February, 1817.

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Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty being informed of the arrangements of Earl Bathurst, His Majesty's principal Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, for employing you in a survey of the unexplored parts of the Coast of New South Wales, have commanded me to express their concurrence therein, and to convey to you the following instructions, to which you are to conform yourself, in addition to those which you may receive from the Secretary of State.

The arrangements for providing you with a proper vessel and crew, and other necessaries for the prosecution of the service having been made by the Colonial Departement, my Lords have no directions to give you on these subjects, but to recommend you in the conduct. and discipline of the vessel which may be intrusted to your care, to conform, as far as may be practicable, to the established usages of the navy, and to the regulations