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STANLEY TO GIPPS. 377 [Enclosure No. 1.] 1842. 27 Nov. LIST of Councillors elected for the City of Sydney on the lst Novr., 1842, under the Local Act, 6th Vict., No. 3. councillors James Chapman Carcase Butcher. iftfJ^ °ity John Jones Merchant. ot byaney' Daniel Egan Do. John Jenkins Peacock. Do. John Hosking Do. (Alderman and Mayor). Ambrose Foss Dentist and Druggist. George Allen Solicitor (Alderman). Robert Owen Do. (Alderman). John Rose Holden Esquire. John Little Publican. Thomas Srnidmore ....' Do. Edward Hunt Cabinet Maker. George Hill Carcase Butcher. James Holt Merchant. Henry McDermott .... Do. Thomas Broughton ... Merchant Tailor (Alderman). William Pawley Tanner. Francis Mitchell Merchant (Alderman). David Jones Linendraper. Henry Hollinshed Miller. Edward Flood Builder. James Robert Wilshire Tanner (Alderman). John Neal Butcher. David Taylor Builder. [Enclosure No. 2,] NOTICE. Notice re style Style and Title of the Mayor and Council. rnayOTand01" c u nc 0r c y Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 22d Novr., 1842. ^ s ^g a n" ey al IT being desirable to settle the Style and Title of the Mayor and ^ 0" Council of the City of Sydney, and of the Town of Melbourne, His Melbourne. Excellency the Governor is pleased to desire it may be notified to the Public that, until the pleasure of Her Majesty (from whom all Titles of Honor must be derived) shall be known, the Mayor and Council of the City of Sydney will, in all official acts emanating from this Government, be addressed or designated as the Right Worshipful the Mayor, or the Right Worshipful the Mayor and Council; and that the Mayor and Council of Melbourne will be addressed or designated as the Worship the Mayor, or the Wor­ shipful the Mayor and Council of the Town of Melbourne. LORD STANLEY BTyO HiSIRs Excellency'GEORGE GIPPSs Command. , (Despatch No. 214, per ship Stratheden.E. DEAS) THOMSON. Sir, Downing Street, 28 November, 1842. 28 Nov. Having had the honor to submit to The Queen the Con­ gratulatory Address on the Birth of the Prince of Wales, from the Legislative Council of New South Wales, which accompanied 378 HISTORICAL RECORDS OF AUSTRALIA. 1842. your Dispatch No. 100 of the 3d of June last, I have received 28 Nov. Her Majesty's Commands to signify to you the gratification Addresses which Her Majesty has experienced at receiving that Address. birth of H.R.H. The Address to Prince Albert, which you also transmit, has Prince of Wales. h&en forwarded to Hig Royal Highness. J h&y^ ^ STANLEY. SIR GEORGE GIPPS TO LORD STANLEY. (Despatch No. 224, per ship Olinda.) 29 Nov. My Lord, Government House, 29th Novr., 1842. Previous report In my Despatch of the 15th Augt. last, No. 143,1 reported re attempt to capture brig to Your Lordship the particulars of a daring attempt made by a Governor Boat's Crew of 12 men at Norfolk Island to capture the Brig Phillip. " Governor Phillip," in which attempt a soldier and five of the Mutineers were killed on the spot, and a Serjeant, one Soldier, and two of the Mutineers wounded. I have now further to report that, the seven surviving Trial of mutineers Mutineers having been sent up to Sydney, six of them were for piracy. indicted before the Supreme Court on the 19th Oct. last, undeT the Statute, lst Vict., C. 88, and, having been found guilty of an assault with intent to murder, whilst engaged in committing the crime of Piracy, were, under the 2nd Clause of that Act, all Reasons for sentenced to suffer Death. no trial oi The seventh man, named John Berry, was not put on his trial, J. Berry. it appearing that he had not been engaged in the attempt to take the Brig, but, on the contrary, had run up into the rigging of the vessel at the commencement of the fray. Of the six men who were condemned to Death, four underwent Commutation the extreme Penalty of the Law on the 8th instt., the punishment of death sentence on of the two others (Wolfe and Whelan) having been, by the advice two mutineers. of the Executive Council, in consequence of some circumstances which appeared in their favor, commuted to Transportation for . Reasons for trial for piracy. Life. It is right I should state to Your Lordship that the Prisoners would have been tried for the Murder of the Soldier, who was thrown overboard and drowned, instead of for Piracy under the Statute above mentioned, except for some defect in the evidence which was transmitted from Norfolk Island. For the satisfaction of Your Lordship, I annex to this Despatch a List of the twelve men who belonged to the Boat's Crew, with a short account of the previous history of each of them. I have, &c, [Enclosure.1 GEO. GIPPS. [A copy of this paper is not available.] STANLEY TO GIPPS. 379 LORD STANLEY TO SIR GEORGE GIPPS. 1842. 30 Nov. (Despatch No. 215, per ship Stratheden.) Sir, Downing Street, 30th November, 1842. I have received a communication from Mr. John Hunter Plan for Patterson, dated Melbourne, 7th June, 1842, transmitting a copy abori^fnes0 of his " plan for the better treatment of the Aborigines of Aus- j CHV|atte°rTon tralia Felix," together with Copies of the same Paper for The Duke of Wellington, the Duchess of Northumberland, and others. I have to request that you will convey my thanks to Mr. Pat­ terson for his communication and that you will acquaint him that I have directed the letters to be forwarded to the Parties to whom they are addressed, but that I cannot undertake in future to make this office the medium of his correspondence written or Printed- I have, &c, STANLEY. LORD STANLEY TO SIR GEORGE GIPPS. (Despatch No. 216, per ship Stratheden; acknowledged by Sir George Gipps, 24th July, 1843.) Sir, Downing Street, 1st December, 1842. l Dec. In transmitting to you the enclosed Memorandum, I have Report required to request that you will take the necessary measures for obtaining re A' s' Kersett- from Port Phillip the information desired respecting Ann Sarah Kensett. j_ am> &C-; STANLEY. [Enclosure.] MEMORANDUM. ANN SARAH KENSETT, aged 23 Years, sailed for Port Philip in statement re March, 1840, in the Ship " Mellish," Capt. Jones, and arrived there A- s- Kensett. in the Month of July of the same Year. She had been engaged for a term of three Years, as Governess in the family of a Mrs. Rucker, whose husband is described as one of the principal Inhabitants of Melbourne. The last Letter received from Ann Kensett was dated 28th Nov., 1840, about 4 Months after her arrival in the Colony. She was then at Mr. Rucker's Country house, the Hermitage near Melbourne, Port Philip. Mrs. Kensett, of Hampton Wick, the mother of the person above Request referred to, is anxious to obtain intelligence respecting her daughter. or reP°rt- From the interval since the date of Ann Kensett's last letter, her friends cannot hope that she is still alive; but they wish to ascertain the time and manner of her death, as they have received no reply to their Letters addressed to Mrs. Rucker, requesting in­ formation on the subject. 380 HISTORICAL RECORDS OF AUSTRALIA. 1842. SIR GEORGE GIPPS TO LORD STANLEY. 1 Dec. (Despatch No. 225, per ship Olinda,) My Lord, Government House, lst Deer., 1842. Despatch I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's Despatch acknowledged re removal of of the llth June last, No. 132, enclosing a Copy of a statement, R. T. Sayers which had been submitted for Your Lordship's consideration on from the subject of the removal of Lieutt. R. T. Sayers, of the 80th magistracy. Regt., from the Magistracy of New South Wales, and desiring me to furnish a report on the allegation contained in it. As Lieutt. Sayers was included in the Magistracy of New South Wales solely on account of his being employed as an officer in the local Corps of Mounted Police, it is necessary that I should Organisation first call to Your Lordship's recollection that the Corps in ques­ of corps of tion is one entirely organized for civil duties, maintained at the mounted police. expence of the Colony, and wholly and exclusively under the control of the Governor. Officers, belonging to Regiments in the Colony, are allowed to serve in it, but they are never required to do so; they are, whilst serving in it, lent with their own consent by the Military to the Civil Authority; and they receive extra pay from the Colony for their services. The appointment of Officers to this service is a matter of arrangement between the Governor of the Colony and the Officer in Command of Her Majesty's Troops in it. The Governor can­ not claim to select Officers, or to take any particular individuals from their Regiments; but, on the other hand, he has the un­ questioned right of objecting to receive any, of whom he may not approve; also of returning any to their Regiments, who after trial may not be found well qualified for the peculiar duties they are, whilst in the Mounted Police, called on to perform. The services of the Corps are very valuable; and it has always been the policy of the Local Government to keep it in a high state of efficiency; and, in proof of its being so kept, I may men­ tion that the average expence of it (Officers of course included) is nearly £200 per man per annum, and I 'believe mere than double that of the most costly Cavalry in Europe.
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