W H I T E ’ S*. J O U<RN'A L O P A
, 788. September 5th. About half aftap fa ira tfee evening we;
October. faw an aurora auftralis, a. phenomenon; uncommon in the
v fouthern hemifphere.
October zà. Hi* Màjefty-’a fbip the Sirâa*. failed; for; the.
Cape o f Good Hope,: for a fupply o£ floury it: being-difco.-
vered that our dock, o f th% article b o r e not pToportion to-
; the fait beef and. pork
The fame day the Golden. Grove faded fax Norfolk Mand^
with a reinforcement of male and female con.vi£hq two. foes:
men, as gaidenersi; a midfhipman from: the Sirins',. to^filf
up the vax^ncy occafion£d;by thudeathof Mri.Cunn^hamy
a fergeant, corporal, and) fix: privates andi a fupply
neeeffaries for eighteen months-
4th. A. convia, named:Cooper Handley,, who went out
with an armed party of marines, to.. coHecft: wild, vegetables,
and fweet tea, Arrayed: from. them,, and' west afterwards,
met by. the natives,, who murdered:and . mutilated him in-a.
lo ck in g manner. The natives, were,fo near' owr men, that
they heard them very diftiaftly fhouting and making ai
grea,t noife,. yet. were unable to overtake them: in. the purfuit.
In the evening, a party o f foldiers and:c onv ié were fent
out to bury the. deceafed.
^ v o y a g e t o s t ew s o u t h w a l e s .
»oth. A general.court maitialwas convened by warrant
from the governor. When the members, with the deputy
fsdge advoeate, -were affendded, they >gave it as their
«pinion, -that notwithfcmdiug the governor has fell power
« 4 :antkrity to .grant and hold «»art martinis amonge
feghlar troops; yet, as a corps trf.marines, undetthe io-fluence;
*®>®aions from the
Admiralty, | and only amenable ab that, taaud, they tcoatt
not proceed to trial; the hoard of Admiralty not having
delegated anypagnjf A e it andtharity over the marine corps,
■ particularly that o f holding coort immtiais,: W the governor;
neither did any part of * e a& io f ParKament for forming
a colony an .New Smith Wales contain dk««ons .rektwe to
that febjeet. The marine infltudtians, with refpefl to court
martials, Hate, that nog.-ncrol count martial can be ordered
but by the Lord High Admiral,' or three commiffioncts for
executing the. . office ; *rn any fmKnce fee canted into
mceedtion until approved o f fey him or them, mdefs the
marines, as in America, t o l d be, fey aft of Parliament,
■ confidered as a pa« o f the. army; g f t f l is not the cafe
here. They we truly and literally governed and regulated
by the fame rules and inftiudtions as the marine divifions-at
Chatham,