de coups." King replied, "Je suis sensible de cette marque
de votre attention et j'ai donné les ordres qu'on rendera coup
pour coup de la forteresse." The Casuarina had been purchased by Baudin in Sydney from a private person, after
application had been made to the Governor for permission,
which he gave in the interests of "science and navigation.
After these events the misunderstanding occurred which caused Captain Kemp to apologize to the French officers for circulating imputations that they had "vendu de rum pour de l'argent;" and simultaneously, Colonel Paterson (9th Oct.) made common cause with his recalcitrant officers by declaring that Barrallier and Dr. Harris could no longer be allowed to do any except their military service. Then followed the appointment of an emancipated bodyguard for the Governor (12th Oct.); the Colonial Commission to Mr. Bellasis (14th Oct.); the Courts-martial on Dr. Harris and Adjutant Minchin; orders that the Loyal Association, though not embodied constantly, should be "exercised monthly; and the appointment of Captain Kent of H.M.S. Buffalo to act as a magistrate throughout the territory and its dependencies. It was convenient to have a naval magistrate, as the Governor assumed a jurisdiction over fishing.
A French schooner, the Surprise, arrived in Sept. 1802. She needed repairs. King consented that she might receive them, and sell so much of her cargo as might disburse her expenses; but observing that her clearance from the Mauritius contemplated "a sealing voyage on the coast of New Holland," told M. le Corre, the commander, that he had no instructions to permit such an enterprise by foreigners. He would give no general permission, but rather than inflict unlooked-for hardship on M. le Corre he would allow him, on this occasion, to catch seals within the territories, provided he would not intrude at Cape Barron and adjacent islands, and at King's Island, where King had given exclusive privileges to certain colonists. He suspected some designs of occupation, for within five days of thus warning Le Corre he provided an English vessel, the Endeavour (about to cruise in Bass's Straits), with two flags, one of which the master was to "hoist and keep flying during the stay" of any vessel at any island where the Endeavour might be. The French explorers did not forget
