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William Campbell and the Harrington

Privateering in Chilean waters in 1804

Pages 315-340 | Published online: 29 May 2013

References

  • Watson , F. 1915 . Historical Records of Australia 1 – 118 . Sydney (–25) (hereafter HRA), HRA, I, V, 334–405; Philip Gidley King, Governor of New South Wales (1800–06), to John Jeffreys Pratt, 2nd Lord Camden, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (13 May 1804 to 10 Jul. 1805), 30 Apr. 1805 (to which there were 50 enclosures); and National Archives of England and Wales, Kew (hereafter NA) NA CO 201/36. For the enclosures themselves see also State Records Authority of New South Wales, Sydney, (hereafter SRA) SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, pp.; and NA CO 201/36 (hereafter ‘King to Camden 30 Apr. 1805’). The enclosure numbers used by King appear in parentheses in the footnotes
  • Harrington In several documents the is referred to as a brig; however, it is referred to as a snow in the instructions from the vessel's owners. See Messrs. Chace, Chinnery & Co. to Captain Campbell, Madras 18 Oct. 1803, HRA, I, V, 347–50 (Enclosure 8); and NA CO 201/36 (hereafter ‘Chace-Chinnery’)
  • 1966 . Australian Dictionary of Biography Melbourne For a brief biography of Campbell, see H. E. Maude, (), I, 208–9
  • Compton , H. 1891 . A Master Mariner: Being the life and adventures of Captain Robert William Eastwick 169 – 70 . London In the book the vessel's name is spelt Harington and referred to as a brig. In quotations, the original spelling and punctuation has been preserved. Square brackets indicate comments inserted by the author to clarify or correct the original text
  • King passed the intelligence obtained by Campbell on to London; King to Lord Robert Hobart, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (17 Mar. 1801 to 12 May 1804), 9 May 1803, HRA, IV, 143–8; and NA CO 201/26
  • ‘A List of Ships and Vessels which have Entered Inwards in the Harbour of Port Jackson, in His Majesty's territory of New South Wales, between the 28th day of March, 1803, and the 7th day of August following, with the particular quantity and quality of the lading of each vessel.’, an enclosure of King to Hobart, 7 Aug. 1803, HRA, I, IV, 364–6
  • Harrington The proprietors referred to the financial value of the vessel and its cargo being ‘in equal shares’ between themselves and Campbell but the figures demonstrate that Campbell increased his share in the vessel to 32/64ths, although the term itself is not mentioned. See Chace Chinnery. The vessel's previous owner stated that he had sold the to Campbell and does not mention Chace Chinnery; see Compton, A Master Mariner, 169
  • Fort Saint George was the British fortress established in India in 1639, from which arose the city of Madras (now Chennai). For the Letter of Marque see HRA, I, V, 342–4 (Enclosure 5); and NA CO 201/36
  • May 1803 . May , Hobart to King, 16, HRA, I, IV, 284; and NA CO 324/103
  • Dec. 1803 . A Master Mariner Dec. , Compton, 181–2. Eastwick was in command of the Betsy (or Betsey) which arrived on 24
  • Campbell to King, 23 Apr. 1804, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, p.1; HRA, I, V, 339–40 (Enclosure 1); and NA CO 201/36 (hereafter ‘Campbell to King 23 Apr. 1804’)
  • King to Campbell, 23 Apr. 1804, HRA, I, V, 340 (Enclosure 2); and NA CO 201/36
  • Campbell to King, 23 Apr.1804
  • Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (hereafter Gazette) was Australia's first newspaper, first published on 5 Mar. 1803
  • ‘A List of Ships and Vessels which have clear'd Outwards from the Harbour of Port Jackson, in His Majesty's Territory of New South Wales, between the 1st Day of January, 1804, and the 14th Day of August following,’ (Enclosure No. 2 of King to Hobart 14 Aug. 1804), HRA, I, V, 122; and NA CO 201/36
  • Appendix to ‘A List of Ships and Vessels which have Entered Inwards in the Harbour of Port Jackson, in His Majesty's Territory of New South Wales, between the 1st Day of January,1804, and the 14th Day of August following, with the particular Quantity and Quality of the Lading of each Vessel.’, Enclosure No. 1, to King to Hobart, 14 Aug. 1804, HRA, I, V, 120–1
  • The Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, based in Lima, governed much of the Spanish territory west of the Andes including what is now Ecuador, Peru and Chile
  • May 1805 . Gazette May , For reference to the Otaheitians see Acting-Lieutenant Robbins to King, 16, HRA, I, V, 479; NA CO 201/37 (hereafter ‘Robbins to King’); and, 2 Jun. 1805
  • 1959 . Dart 1803 London ‘Examination taken on board the King of Spain's Armed Cruizer, the Estremina’ at Sydney on 9 Apr. 1805 during which Tozer deposed he had been left at Tahiti by the, HRA, I, V, 383–4 (Enclosure 39); and NA CO 201/36 (hereafter ‘Tozer Deposition’). The Dart had arrived at Tahiti on 25 Sep. and, when it continued its voyage to Port Jackson, took on board survivors of the wreck of the Margaret. Some of the crew of the Dart were left behind, presumably to make room for the Margaret's people. For the wreck of the Margaret see J. Davies and C. W. Newbury, The history of the Tahitian Mission: 1799–1830, Hakluyt Society, (Cambridge), 62–3; and Gazette, 2 Oct. 1803. Thomas Dunbabin wrote that Arnold Fisk was also picked up in Tahiti, see, T Dunbabin, Sailing the World's Edge: Sea stories from old Sydney (1931), 77. See also T. Dunbabin, ‘Some Early International Relations of Australia’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 18 (Sydney, 1933), 321; and ‘First Rhode Islander in Tasmania’, Rhode Island History, Rhode Island Historical Society, 8 (Jul. 1949), 65, but no evidence has been found to support this. M.D. Cobcroft, in Brought to this distress: The life of Arnold Fisk, a colonial loser, (Brisbane, 1987), says that Fisk first arrived in Sydney on the French schooner l'Enterprise in Sep. 1802 and having survived the subsequent wreck of the vessel he was reported as again being in Sydney in Mar 1803. In contemporary accounts the schooner's name was erroneously spelt ‘Surprise’.
  • Supply 1795 ‘Examination taken before His Excellency Governor King; The Judge Advocate [Richard Atkins]; Major George Johnston Commanding New South Wales Corps; and Captain William Kent Comm. the Ship Investigator’, 18 May 1805, (hereafter ‘Examination 18 May 1805’), SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, pp.121–5. Lieutenant William Kent RN was the commander of the when it brought Governor John Hunter to the colony, arriving on 7 Sep. Later, after promotion to Commander, he was put in command of the Buffalo and was made a magistrate in Nov. 1802. For a biography of Fisk, see Cobcroft
  • Tozer Deposition
  • 'Harrington's 64 – 70 . Dates and times are taken from ‘Extract from the Harrington's Log commencing from Sept. 22nd to Oct 3rd 1804’, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, pp.; and NA CO 201/36 (hereafter Logbook’). (The extract was Enclosure 32 of King to Camden 30 Apr. 1805 but was not available when HRA was published). For Gardner's account see ‘Extract from the Journal of Mr. Francis Gardner, (hereafter ‘Gardner’) Chief Mate of the Harrington from 22nd Septr., 1804, to 9th Feby., 1805.’, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, pp. 70–4; HRA, I, V, 376–8 (Enclosure 33); NA CO 201/36; and NA ADM 1/2021. (hereafter ‘Gardner's journal’). His name is spelt as ‘Gardiner’ in records at SRA
  • The only reference found to the position of William Cummins is that of ‘Assistant’
  • Harrington's Logbook
  • Horne , T. H. 1803 . Compendium of the Laws and Regulations of the Court of Admiralty: Relative to ships of war, privateers, prizes, re-captures, and prize-money with an appendix of notes, precedents, &c. 25 – 6 . London
  • San Francisco de Paula For the tonnage, the names of the owners and commander of the, see ‘Royal Passport for the Navigation of the Indian Seas on Mercantile Concerns’ issued by Don Carlos, King of Spain, dated 6 Dec. 1802 and endorsement issued in Lima on 7 Jul. 1804 by Captain José Pascual de Vivero (an English translation), in King Family Correspondence and memoranda, volume 8, 1775–1806 (hereafter ‘King Family Correspondence’), Mitchell Library, Sydney (hereafter ‘ML’). ML, A 1980/2, Microfilm CY 906, frames 291–2. The vessel may have been named after San Francisco de Paula (Saint Francis of Paula), 1416–1507 who was canonised in 1519. The name of the vessel was anglicized in contemporary English language documents and is variously referred to as Saint Francis and Saint Paul; and St Francisco and St Paul and similar
  • San Francisco de Paula For the capture of the, see depositions of Reynolds, and Gardner in ‘Examination taken before His Excellency Governor King; Major Geo. Johnston, Commanding the N. S. Wales Corps; and Richard Atkins, Esq., Judge Advocate’, 9 Mar. 1805 (hereafter ‘Examination 9 Mar. 1805’); HRA, I, V, 344–6 (Enclosure 6); and NA CO 201/36
  • 183 – 4 . ‘Copy of the Harrington Journal kept by Arnold Fisk Second Mate between the 22 and 29 September 1804’, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, pp. (hereafter ‘Fisk's journal’)
  • Petrie , D. A. 1999 . The Prize Game: Lawful looting on the high seas in the days of fighting sail 19 – 24 . New York
  • Home . Compendium 28 – 9 .
  • Fisk's journal
  • 1955 . Boletin de la Academia Chilena de la Historia , 53 It is stated that the copper amounted to 400 toneladas by Eugenio Pereira Salas in ‘Las primeras relaciones entre Chile y Australia’, (Santiago de Chile), 18. This may be an error and that the units of measurement should be quintals (a quintal is equivalent to 46 kilograms), giving a mass of 13.8 tonnes. During the Examination 18 May 1805, David Lyons, one of the crew of the Harrington, stated that the copper was loaded in about six hours. However it is not clear how much was loaded. At auction, on 12 Jun. 1806, one lot of the copper fetched £156 8s 4d, which at 10d per pound amounts to 3,754 lb (1702 kg). King to Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (10 July 1805 to 5 February 1806), 20 Jul. 1806, HRA, I, V, 740–2; and NA CO 201/39 (hereafter ‘King to Castlereagh’). King to William Windham, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (5 Feb. 1806 to 25 Mar. 1807), 12 Aug. 1806, HRA, I, V, 783–6; and NA CO 201/40 (despatch marked ‘Separate A’). Gazette 15 Jun. 1806
  • Harrington's Logbook; and ‘Officers’ Opinion on Erasures’, HRA, I, V, 380 (Enclosure 35). Close examination of the microfilm does suggest the text as ‘fired on the Men about 187 from the Shore’ which is probably an error in transcribing from the original log which, because of the erasures, would have been difficult to read. Henry Purcell, the writer of the Harrington's Logbook, used the words ‘fired at the man about an half from the shore’, see ‘The Examination of Henry Purcell’, 8 Apr. 1805 (hereafter ‘Examination 8 Apr. 1805’), HRA, I, V, 380–1 (Enclosure 36); and NA CO 201/36
  • May 1805 . May , Examination 18
  • Mar. 1805 . Mar. , Gardner's journal; see also depositions of Gardner and Reynolds in Examination 9
  • Extremeña For details of charts based on surveys conducted from the under the direction of Isasbiribil, refer J. T. Medina, Ensayo acerca de una Mapoteca Chilena: Ó sea de una colección de los títulos de los mapas, planos y vistas relativos à Chile arreglados cronologicamente, con una introducción histórica acerca de la geografía del pais (Santiago de Chile 1889), 76–81
  • For place and date of launching see José de la Aruelas ‘History of His Majesty's Schooner Estremena’, Callao July 30th 1803 (an English translation), in King Family Correspondence, ML, CY 906, frame 290. An impression of the vessel and its armament can be obtained from a short inventory, dated 12 Jun. 1806, attached to its subsequent Bill of Sale, see Sherrard to Palmer 12 Aug. 1806, NA CO 201/40. A more detailed inventory appears in a survey dated II Apr. 1805, see King Family Correspondence, ML, CY 906, frames 283–5 (There is another copy at frames 286–8)
  • Mar. 1805 . Gazette Mar. , Gardner's journal. The, 10, reported the Harrington ‘has bought upwards of twenty tons of salt pork’
  • Gardner's journal. There is a transcription error in HRA in the entry for 6 Dec. 1804: ‘Set out with Boat and Crew and Parcel for Moira’; the manuscript at SRA reads ‘Set out with Boat and Crew and Purcell for Morra [Moorea]’
  • 128 SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, p
  • Tahitian Mission 75
  • Mar. 1805 . Gazette Mar. , 10
  • Examination 9 Mar. 1805: deposition of John Reynolds
  • Gardner's journal
  • Tozer Deposition
  • Harrington For arrival of the see Gazette 10 Mar. 1805
  • Mar. 1805 . Mar. , Acting-Secretary Blaxcell (hereafter ‘Blaxcell’) to Campbell, 6, HRA, I, V, 340–1 (Enclosure 3); and NA CO 201/36
  • Campbell to King, 7 Mar. 1805, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, pp.6–7; HRA, I, V, 341–2 (Enclosure 4); and NA CO 201/36
  • Gazette HRA, I, V, 462; NA ADM 1/2021; and 10 and 24 Mar. 1805
  • King to Judge-Advocate, 12 Mar. 1805, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, pp.17–9; HRA, I, V, 350–1 (Enclosure 9); and NA CO 201/36
  • Judge-Advocate to King, 12 Mar. 1805, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, p.20; HRA, I, V, 352 (Enclosure 10); and NA CO 201/36
  • Blaxcell to Campbell, 12 Mar. 1805, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, p.21; and HRA, I, V, 352–3 (Enclosure 11)
  • King to Camden 30 Apr. 1805
  • Harrington's ‘A List of Ships & Vessels which have Entered Inwards in the Harbour of Port Jackson in His Majesty's Territory of New South Wales Between the 1st Day of January 1805 and the 31st Day of March following With the particular Quantity and Quality of the Lading of each Vessel’, NA CO 201/39; mentions pork loaded in Tahiti, but does not mention copper or seal skins. This manuscript records the arrival as 6 Mar., whereas other sources indicate 4 Mar. The discrepancy may be due to the Harrington possibly having entered the port on the 4th, but having to wait two days for a favourable wind before reaching Sydney Cove
  • 37 The security was made up by William Campbell and his agent Simon [Simeon] Lord, £4,000; Simon Lord on his own behalf, £2,000; and Henry Kable and Company, £2,000. SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, p.; HRA, I, V, 371–3 (Enclosure 24); and NA CO 201/36
  • Apr. 1805 . Apr. , King to Camden 30
  • By this time Britain and Spain were at war but King was not to know until many months later
  • Lady Nelson The, a brig of 60 tons, was pierced for six guns. For further details of the vessel see C. W. Hawkins, ‘His Majesty's Armed Tender Lady Nelson 1799–1825’, Mariner's Mirror, 55:4 (1969), 417–34. (There are some errors on page 428; the schooner Extremeña, not Guarda Costa, was captured at Caldera; the brig San Francisco de Paula, not the Extremeña, was captured at Coquimbo.)
  • Apr. 1805 . Apr. , Examination 8
  • Lady Nelson 77 Blaxcell to Campbell 8 Apr. 1805, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, p.; HRA, I, V, 381–2 (Enclosure 37); and NA CO 201/36. The reason for the sudden withdrawal of the clearance to leave the port is not clear. Although the return of the to Sydney Cove with the Extremeña was not reported until the 9th April, the vessels may have been sighted the previous day by the lookout at South Head, in which case King may well have been notified of their return on the 8th. King's possible earlier knowledge of the capture of the Extremeña may therefore have been a factor
  • ‘Orders to be attended to by the Corporal doing Duty on board the Harrington, Sydney 8th April, 1805’, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, p.79; HRA, I, V, 382–3 (Enclosure 38); and NA CO 201/36
  • 1915 . The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson: With the journal of her first commander, Lieutenant James Grant, RN 260 – 4 . London Symons to King, 13 Apr. 1805, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, p.87; HRA, I, V, 386–7 (Enclosure 43); and NA CO 201/36. There is also an account of the incident in I. Lee, (),. Extremeña was spelt as Estremina in early English Language correspondence
  • Gazette 14 Apr. 1805 ‘On Tuesday arrived His Majesty's armed tender Lady Nelson, with the Estremina armed schooner, belonging to the King of Spain.’
  • Tozer Deposition
  • Integrity The was one of the first vessels built in the Colony. A cutter of 59 tons burthen, built in fourteen months at a cost of £1,022, it was launched in January 1804. King to Hobart, 1 Mar. 1804 (Despatch No. 3), HRA, I, IV, 477–95, 690; and King to Hobart, 1 Mar. 1804 (Despatch No. 7), HRA, I, IV, 536–41, 690; and NA CO 201/31
  • Robbins to King. Mr. Kent was probably William George Carlisle Kent or Bartholomew Kent, nephews of William Kent
  • May 1805 . Gazette May , 19
  • King to Camden 30 Apr. 1805. King to William Marsden, First Secretary to the Admiralty (1804–7), 30 Apr. 1805, HRA, I, V, 459–62; and NA ADM 1/2021. King to the Governor General of India (at the time, The Earl of Mornington), 31 May 1805, HRA, I, V, 515–9; and NA CO 201/37
  • 1874 . Almanaque peruano y guia de forasteros para el año de 1805 155 – 8 . For sources quoting Isasbiribil as commander see: G. Moreno, Lima (the 1805 edition was published before the Extremeña was seized); Gaceta de Madrid, No. 59, 23 Jun. 1805 (in this article the ‘Harrington' has been erroneously spelt ‘Washington’); D. Francisco de Paula Pavia ‘Galeria Biográfica de los Generales de Marina, Jefes y personajes notables que figuraron en la misma corporacion desde 1700 á 1868’, (Madrid),; and Salas, ‘Las primeras relaciones’, 19. Accounts naming Antonio José del Campo as the commander of the Extremeña include: L. Becke and W. Jeffery, ‘An Old Australian Privateering Adventure’, Canberra Times, 23 Dec. 1932 (a dramatised interpretation); T. Dunbabin, in ‘Whalers, Sealers, and Buccaneers’ Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, XI, (Sydney, 1925), 23; and First Rhode Islander in Tasmania’, 67; D. S. Macmillan, ‘Early Shipping of Sydney’, Navy News, 5 Feb. 1965 (a dramatised interpretation); and C. Bateson, Australian Shipwrecks: Including vessels wrecked en route to or from Australia, and some strandings, (Sydney, 1972), 52–3
  • 1970 . Investigator 275 – 98 . The was the vessel in which Matthew Flinders carried out an extensive survey of the Australian coast between Jul. 1802 and Jun. 1803. For a detailed description of the vessel see N. T. Geeson and R. T. Sexton ‘H.M. Sloop Investigator’, Mariner's Mirror, 56:3 ()
  • Mar. 1805 . Mar. , King's Orders to William Kent, 18; HRA, I, V, 463–4; and NA ADM 1/2021 (incorrectly dated 18 Mar. 1803)
  • 1897 . Historical Records of New South Wales Sydney NA ADM 1/2021; and F. M. Bladen (ed.), (), V, 712
  • Gazette 135 McArthur to Blaxcell, II Jun. 1805, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, p.; and, 9 Jun. 1805. John Macarthur (current spelling), soldier, entrepreneur and pastoralist, is credited with the introduction of Merino sheep into Australia. (He had first arrived in Australia in 1790 but had returned to England in 1801.)
  • 137 – 9 . SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, pp
  • 140 – 1 . Deed 12 Jun. 1805, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, pp
  • Dec. 1805 . Buffalo Dec. , The vessels that had been performing that service were the and the Integrity. The Buffalo was under repair having recently sustained damage in a gale; and the Integrity had gone to England. See King to Castlereagh. The Estramina first departed for Port Dalrymple on 16, see Gazette, 22 Dec.1805. Also see ‘Statement of His Majesty's Ships and Colonial Vessels employed on the Public Service of His Majesty's Territory called New South Wales, the 12th August 1806’ (Enclosure No. 3 of King's Despatch No. 2 to Windham 12 Aug. 1806), HRA, I, V, 770; and NA CO 201/40
  • October 1795 . Supply October , 1805 Forrest to King, 20 Sep., SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, p.141. His Majesty's Ship arrived in Port Jackson, under the command of William Kent, in. It was surveyed in June 1797 and reported to be unfit to proceed to sea. It was condemned shortly afterwards, moored in Sydney Cove, and retained as a storage hulk. It should not be confused with the armed tender of the same name that arrived with the First Fleet and returned to England in 1791
  • Bligh , William . “ Governor of New South Wales (1806–8), to Castlereagh 30 Jun. 1808 (paragraph 106), HRA, I, VI, 520–42; and NA CO 201/46 (hereafter ‘Bligh to Castlereagh’) (Castlereagh was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies for a second term from 25 Mar. 1807 to I Nov. 1809). The failure of Chace Chinnery is only casually referred to. There is nothing to suggest that the confinement of the ” . In Harrington contributed to the demise of the company
  • Camden to King, 11 Jan. 1805, HRA, I, V, 261; and NA CO 324/103
  • January 1805 . The London Gazette January , from Saturday 12 January to Tuesday 15
  • 1969 . The Convict Ships: 1787–1868 Glasgow For an explanation of this lengthy voyage, see C. Bateson, (), 188. The declaration of war was also reported in the Gazette, on 20 Apr.1806
  • May 1806 . Gazette May , ‘Orders of the Vice-Admiralty Court relating to the Estremina and St Francisco and Saint Paulo’, 28 and 29, HRA, I, V, 742–3; NA CO 201/39; and, 1 Jun. 1806. G. W. Rusden stated in his History of Australia (Melbourne, 1897), 367–8, ‘the proceeds were eventually handed to the Spanish Government’. The source of this statement was not found in researching this article
  • 1806 . Gazette 15 Jun. In King to Castlereagh, the proceeds of the sales are stated as £5,053 18s. 9d. and a margin note states: ‘Estremina, £2,100; Spanish Meal, £370 16s. 7½.; Copper, £156 8s. 4d.—£2,627 4s. 11½d.’ There was, in addition, £829 10s 10d realised on the sale of perishable cargo removed from the San Francisco de Paula (see ‘Governor King's Warrant to Messrs. Sherrard and Lord for the sale of the Spanish Vessels’, HRA, I, V, 743–6); and the £700 for the vessel itself. However this does not amount to the said total of £5,053 18s 9d and in researching this article it has not been possible to account for the discrepancy
  • History of Australia King to Castlereagh. Note 227, HRA, I, V, 845 states, in part: ‘no evidence of the fate of the cutter or her crew has been found to this day’. Rusden, 368 also wrote: ‘Minute search at the Admiralty, kindly promoted for the author by Admiral Sir Anthony Hoskins, has resulted in a “return” concluding with the words, “No further trace.” Inquiry by the author through the British Ambassador in Madrid, and in person with the learned Don Pasquale de Gayangos, failed to elicit any facts about Bass or Robbins.’
  • 1998 . The Prizes of War: The naval prize system in the Napoleonic Wars 150 – 3 . Nicholl to Castlereagh, 24 Oct. 1805; SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, pp.; and HRA, I, V, 625–7 The Latin term was misread and transcribed as ‘animus fervandi’ in HRA. Sir John Nicholl, (erroneously transcribed as I. Nicholl in HRA) reported to Sir William Scott, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, see R. Hill 1793–1815 (Stroud), 162–3
  • Nicholl . 153 – 4 . Perceval and Gibbs to Castlereagh, 21 Nov. 1805, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, pp.; and HRA, I, V, 627–8
  • 156 – 7 . SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, pp
  • Gazette 15 Feb. 1807
  • ‘Report of Ships and Vessels cleared Outwards from the Port of Port Jackson in His Majesty's Colony of New South Wales, from the 1st of January to the 30th of June, 1807’ (Enclosure of Bligh, to Windham 31 Oct. 1807), HRA, I, VI, 193; and NA CO 201/44
  • Under the terms of the East India Company's Charter no other vessels were permitted to trade between Australia and ‘the East’
  • In January 1808 Bligh was deposed in a military coup, later known as the Rum Rebellion, led by Major George Johnston
  • Harrington 1812 Bligh to Castlereagh. According to Campbell the returned from China during 1807 and made two subsequent voyages to the Fiji Islands but no other evidence has been found to the effect that he returned to Port Jackson until 30 March 1808. See ‘The Petition of William Campbell’ to Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (II Jun. 1812 to 30 Apr. 1827), 5 Sep., HRA, I, VII, 519–20; and NA CO 201/64 (hereafter ‘Petition of William Campbell’)
  • Campbell to King, 21 Mar. 1805, HRA, I, V, 362–5 (Enclosure 18); and NA CO 201/36
  • Blaxcell to Campbell, 23 Mar. 1805, HRA, I, V, 365–7 (Enclosure 19); and NA CO 201/36
  • Aug. 1806 . Gazette Aug. , For the renaming, see, 31
  • Hainsworth , D. R. 1972 . The Sydney Traders: Simeon Lord and his contemporaries 1788–1821 159 Melbourne 172, 174, 229
  • 1925 . Journal of William Lockerby: Sandalwood Trader in Fiji 1808–9 Hakluyt Society, (London), 78, 86
  • 5 – 6 . Lieut. Thomas Thompson Commandant at Newcastle, to Secretary T. Campbell, 25 Jan. 1816, SRA, Reel 6066, 4/1806, pp
  • Aug. 1809 . Gazette Aug. , 22 and 29 May 1808 and 20 and 27. Campbell later related the incident to Robert Eastwick and an account appears in Compton, A Master Mariner, 190–2
  • Pavia , Paula . Galeria Biográfica 155 – 8 .
  • Cumpston , J. S. Shipping Arrivals & Departures, Sydney: Volume 1, 1788 to 1825 (Sydney, 1977), III 34
  • Journal of William Lockerby , 36 45 – 59 . (Lockerby spells the name ‘Camble’)
  • Harrington Petition of William Campbell. Campbell states, in his petition, that the was seized on 5 May whereas all other reports state the date as 15 May 1807
  • Harrington 1812 Under Secretary Goulburn to Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales, (1810–21), 25 Sep., HRA, I, VII, 518–19; and NA CO 202/7. The compensation related to the seizure of the by convicts and not to the arrest of the vessel during King's term as Governor
  • Macquarie to Bathurst, 28 Jun. 1813, HRA, I, VII, 707–30 (paragraph 21); and NA CO 201/67. Camden is 60 km south-west of Sydney
  • Shipping Arrivals , 117 121 Cumpston
  • A manuscript headed ‘Documents to Prove Spanish Property and Reports of Surveyor left’, SRA, Reel 6020, 4/1093.1, gives two lists of documents relating to the Spanish vessels. The first is a list of English translations, which were found among the King Family Correspondence, and some have been cited above in these notes. The other is a list of Spanish language documents that have not been found
  • May 1806 . Investigator May , In Enclosure No. 2 of King to Camden 5 Mar. 1806 the is stated as departing on 23. See HRA, I, V, 641; and CO 201/39
  • New South Wales Act 1823 New South Wales was established as a penal colony subject to English law. It was not until 1823 that a law enacted at Westminster, (4 Geo 4 cap 96), enabled the establishment of the New South Wales Legislative Council and permitted the colony to enact its own laws

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