difficulties'* at Port Phillip CoUina was to send oonTicta with an adequate guard to form a post at King's Island, if on examination the place should be found suitable. In a separate despatch to King, Lord Hobart instructed him as to the manner in which the new settlements would be supplied with food.
- In three years, if the soil and climate at Port PhUlip should appear as
favourable aa they have been repreaeuted, the new colony A^ill grow fiofficieut cora for the eoiismnption of its inhabitants j considering at the fiame time the Biiperior advantage under which the establiighment there will commence its operationa, by the facilitiea it will derive from your fostering care and attention." There was hardly any subject which was not embraced by the instructioris given at this time to King. The decision with regard to the com^t-martial on Lieut. Marshall was not calculated to strengthen the Governor's position, but highly complimentary expressions were applied to his exertions. The discovery of coal in quantities at Newcastle prompted Lord Hobart to send a mineralogist, Mr. Humphry,*^* to assist Collins, and afterwards conform to King's commands. Captain Woodriflf, of H*M,S. Calcutta^ who conveyed Collins to Port Phillip, desired to become a settler, and King was instructed to grant him six himdred acres of land in -* any of the settlements" under the customary conditions. Collins reached Fort Phillip on the 9th Oct., and reported his arrival to King on the 5th Nov, 1803. Three sub- alterns, three sergeants, three corporals, two drummers, and thirty-nine privates of the marine service were with him to | control the two hundred and ninety-nine male convicts. Collins had also ** a complete civil staff, of whom the Judge- Advocate alone is absent, but I have my Lord Hobart'a assmrance that he shall be sent out by the first ship that sails after me.^^ The Ocean, storeship, arrived (7th Oct.)
- The name is apelt in varioaa ways Ln the doctiments of the day. In
an order pTibliahcM* in Sydney while the mineralogist was there he is styled
- Adolerioufl E. V. Humphry, Esq*"
«*The fortunes of Bates, the Deputy Judge- Ad vocate^ were Bingtilar. He arrived in 1806 at Hobart Town, and remained there nearly ten years, receiving salary but doing no duty. He was provided with no patent or authority under which Collins thought be coidd act. Km commiasion being frame<i with reference to Port Phillip, — Bigge's '* Report" (Judicial)^ 1823, p. 4L
