Administration of Justice

severity of punishment for stealing food, 207.
reasons for, 208.

distorted views of crime, 209.

the result of surrounding circumstances, ib.
illustrations, ib.

the Civil and Criminal Courts, 211-18.
trial by jury denied, 389.

conceded, 390.

military jury in Supreme Court, 390-2-4-5.
Bigge's report, 391-2-7-8.

colonists petition for reform, 391.

business in Judge-Advocate's Court, 393.
practically a Court-martial, 101, 205, 399.
Wentworth's opinion of the Court, 394.
Chief Justice Forbes and trial by jury, 395.
principles of the common law ignored, 395-7.
secret deliberations, 397.

Bigge's suggestion for improving practice, 398.
first public trials, ib.
historical parallel, 399.
case of Mary Turner, 400-7.
the six marines, 209, 400.

question of interpretation as to the Act, 407-9.
Act establishing the Criminal Court, 453.
Letters Patent establishing the Courts, 531.
Africa

penal settlement intended, 21-2, 73-4, 494–5.
Burke's protest against, 491-2-3.

appointed a place for transportation, 495.

Pitt's statement, 493.

results of transportation to, 428.
Portuguese system, 439.

America

transportation to, 16.

commencement of the system, 16.

extent to which it was carried, 16, 17, 458-9, 460.
selling convicts, lxi, 15.

estimates of number transported, 18, 19, 461-2.
inquiries on the subject, and references, 19 n.
convicts sent to colonies in British America, 21.
disappearance of convict element, 19.
sneers of magazine writers, 364 n.

America

protest of American colonists, 556-8.
no remonstrance from Burke, 385.
evil effects of the system, 385.
its origin, 387.

American Colonisation

its history, vii, 16, 445-9, 461, 466, 556.
principles of colonisation adopted b
States, compared with English, 430A
commissions to Governors, 487-9.

American Loyalists

Matra's suggestion for settling them in
South Wales, 5, 424.

Sir George Young's, 8, 430.
rejected by Sydney, 10.

claims for compensation, 370.

their position at the close of the war, 375 n.
emigrate to British America, 371.

probable results if settled in New South Wales,
373-4.

policy of the Government, 374-8.

dispersion led to Matra's proposal, 375.
his letter to the Government, 549.

Assignment

system introduced, 15 and note, 483.
recommended by Phillip, 143, 325, 341.

Australia

authorship of the name, 86.

credited to Flinders, ib.

used by him in 1806, 84.

by Dalrymple in 1770, 87.

rejected by Flinders in favour of Terra Aus-
tralis, 89.

his charts, ib.

received by Governor Macquarie, 92 n.
hopes the name Australia will be used, ib.
origin of the name, 90.

first appearance in English, 90, 573.
when it came into general use, 87 n, 92.

not in use in Phillip's time, 92, 265 n.
early instances of its use, 93 n.
Sturt's idea, 88 n.

Ball

discovered Lord Howe Island, 170, 274.
sailed round New Holland, 170.

Banks

proposes colony at Botany Bay, xlv.
evidence before Committee, xlv, 3.
supports Matra's proposal, 3, 425.
suggests employment of Chinese, 6, 425.
journal of the voyage with Cook, xl, xliii, 78.
colony originated with him, xlv, xlviii, 1, 78-9.
chaplain appointed at his instance, 55 n, 56.
collection of papers, 79 and note.

influence with the Government, lii, 22 n, 78-9.
frequent appeals from colonists, 79.

instances selected from his papers, 79-84.

Rev. Samuel Marsden, 79.

Captain Wilson, 79-80.

Matthew Flinders, 80, 84.
William Bligh, lii, 81.
Mungo Park, 82-3.

urges exploration of interior in 1798, 82.
by Mungo Park and Flinders, 82-3.
proposal not accepted by Government, 84.
confidence in the future of the colony, 85.
opinion of its climate and soil, ib.
inquires about the Stadt-house map, xxxiii.
obtains copy of Tasman's instructions, 88.
finds fault with King for frequent reprieves, 239.
botanical specimens from Sydney Cove, 280.
and from Norfolk Island, 356.

specimens of clay and minerals, 339, 340.
employs Wedgwood to analyse, 244, 340 n.
letter to Bligh, lii.

wants plants from Port Jackson, xlii.
receives letter from Westall, lxxiii.
Dr. Johnson's motto for his goat, lv.
biographical sketch, 471-4.

Bligh

letter from Sir Joseph Banks, lii.
letters to, 81.

in Adventure Bay, 171.

in the Bounty's launch, ib.

in Torres' Straits, 172 and note.

Blue Mountains

Phillip's first view, 139, 288-9.
first attempt to reach them, ib.
seen from the Hawkesbury, 149, 150.
and named, 149.

Tench's descriptions of them, 153-5.
Dawes's expedition, 153-4.
Phillip's second attempt, 157.
discovery of passage over, 169.
Botany Bay

description in Hawkesworth, xl.
Banks proposes a colony, xlv.
origin of the expedition to, 8.

selected for penal settlement, 22, 482.
arrival of the First Fleet at, 267.

examined and abandoned by Phillip, 135, 267.
northern shore described by him, 279.
examined a second time, 144.

arrival of La Pérouse at, 32.

his departure, and opinion of the country, 23 n.
Tench's description of the French ships, 245.
Cook's meadows, xlii.

Péron's description of the country, 359.

descriptions by disappointed settlers, 503, 507.
its scenery, xl.

collection of voyages, xxvii, 87-8, 441, 575.

chart of Nouvelle Hollande, xxvii.

on board the Endeavour, ib.

translation by Callander, xxix.

thought Quiros discovered east coast, xxx.

did not confound New Holland with Terra Aus-
tralis, xxxiv.

thought New Holland, New Guinea, and New
Zealand separated by straits, xxxv.

doubt as to straits between New Holland and
New Guinea, xxvii, xxviii.

Callander's interpolation in his text, ib.
originated the names Australasia, Polynesia, 87.
thought New Holland unfit for colonisation,
lxiii-iv, lxxiii.

New Zealand and Van Diemen's Land to remote
for settlement, ib.

Burke

silent on the colonisation of New South Wales,
73, 384.

protest against transportation to Africa, 73-4.
speech in Parliament, 491-3.

indifferent to reform of criminal law, 233-5.

on crime and punishment, 234.

on the pillory, 234-5.

on trial by jury, 399.

on imprisonment for debt, 241.

"the cries of India," lvi.

"the fierce spirit of liberty," lvii.

Cape of Good Hope

arrival of the First Fleet, 70.

plants, seed, and live stock procured, 71-2.
sending to the Cape for provisions, 182, 313.
time occupied by Sirius and Supply, in sailing
from the Cape to Botany Bay, 313.

the run estimated at near a month, 430.
Sirius ordered to the Cape, 145, 329, 335.
time occupied on voyage there and back, 182.
Chatham

First Lord of the Admiralty, 194, 562.
King's interview with him, ib.

inquires about the colony, 195.

the first play, 257.

qualifications for judicial office, 36, 180, 213, 215.
judicial views, 207.

no comments on severity of criminal law, 207.
illustrations from his work, 208-10.

duties in the Civil Court, 211-12.

in the Criminal Court, 213.

judge, juryman, and prosecutor, 213, 404-5.
practice at trials, 213-5.

duties of Judge-Advocate in England and in
the colony, 215-6, 408.

questions authority of Governor's warrant for
holding Court-martial of marines, 347-50.
letter to Nepean, enclosing his opinion, 555.
to Campbell on Mary Turner's case, 400.
attacked by Campbell, 401.

letter to Phillip, 405-6.

conduct in the matter, 406-7.

question as to his interpretation of the Judge
Advocate's position, 407-9.

vacancy in battalion offered by Ross, 425A.
declined, ib.

slighted by Ross, 115, 414.

Account of the Colony, 206, 254-8, 589.

character of the work, ib.

fidelity of his narrative, viii.

authorship of the second volume, 257-8.

note on La Pérouse and the natives, 522-3.

return to England, 206, 520.

appointed Lieutenant-Governor, 206.

abandoned Port Phillip, 97n.

character, 206, 256, 530.

biographical sketch, 528-31.