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[Page 30]
new, and her Tops were also reported to be decayed. On the execution of these duties they have been employed, and are now beginning to rig.
Until the 30th July, I knew nothing of His Majesty's Ship, but by observing her through my Spy-glass. At that time Lieutenant Colonel Foveaux arrived with an augmentation of men to the New-South-Wales Corps, and from him Captain Kent had permission to wait on me. I then gave him a written order to bear my broad pendant, in conformity to their Lordships order of the 27th January 1807; but it had been flying from the 26th of May in consequence of a verbal notification to him previous to his Sailing for Port-Dalrymple.
On my asking Captain Kent where Lieutenant James Symons was, he informed me that on his taking the Command of the Ship, Lieutenant James Symons left her, and was marked on the books Superseded, as he considered