Letter received by Banks from Sir Hugh Inglis of the Honourable East India Company, 25 March 1801 (Series 64.02) - No. 0003

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At a Committee of Shipping

the 4th March 1801

Pursuant to reference of Court of the 22nd October last your Committee have taken into consideration the Letter from Captain Matthew Flinders late a Lieutenant of His Majesty's Ship Reliance enclosing a Copy of a Letter from the Governor of St Helena to him on the subject of his paper containing some account of advantages which a Strait lately discovered separating New Holland from Van Diemiens Land seems to offer to the Company's Ships making an Eastern Passage to China to Country Ships bound to Port Jackson &c.

And the Committee having had several communications with him on the subject and Captain Flinders having in a Letter dated the 16th Ultimo stated to this Committee that he has been lately appointed to the Command of the Investigator Sloop for the purpose of surveying the whole of the Coast of New Holland and requesting to the granted such allowances for Table Money for himself and