- ' very little further aid would be wanted*' in the colony.
The nine instructors were hired for three 3^Gars at £40 a year with rations, and during their engagement were *' not to be allowed to settle any land on their own account," Between each of the grants made IMiillip was to make reserves for the Crown, He was also to make reserves for fortifications, ttc, for edifices, for " growth and production of naval timber, if there are any woods ht for that purpose/' and for clnnxdi sites, with glebes of 400 adjacent acres, and 200 acres for school purposes. Phillip did not receive these instructions until June 1790, They '* shall be obeyed " (he writes), but if settlers could be sent out many difficulties would be '"removed. - . . They appear to me to be absolutely necessary/' It would be little less than two years before the lands would ** support the cnUivators/' Of the instructors sent only five had arrived, and *'one only is a farmer; , . . the two gardeners are said to be lost, having left the ship (Gfutrdian) in a small boat after that unfortunate accident wliieh deprived the colony of those supplies which had been so liberally provided by the government." In July, 1790, replying to inquiries as to when the colony would he able to support itself, he told the Secretary of State, it will depend upon the numbers employed in agriculture."
- . . , Experience h&a taught me how rliflftcult it is to make men
imluatrioiia who hiiv^e passed their livea in hal>it5 of vice and iiidolence. In amne cases it haa been found impossible ; neither kindness nor aeverity have had any eflect^ (though in general the convicts) behave weU. There are many who dread puninhnietit le«K than they fear labour, . . . bence^ iny being so deHirons of having a few aettler<?, to whom, as the /ir^fC »ettifrs, I think every possible encouragement should be given* In them I .should have some resource. . . ." Again (5th Nov., 1791) he represented the need of *' a few honest, intelligent aettlerK. Precept lias little effect, but example will do much/^ In Dee., 1791, he deplored tlmt he had received no a,nswer as *'to settlers being sent out, which is so much to be desired, I allude to Bettlers who are farmers or planters, and who are possessed of some propert3'* The original instructions as to grants of land to settlers HJid to ijoij-eommissioned officers and marines did not
