Hobart General Hospital

Its Early History

As early as possible after Lieuten· a \•ailable to him for erecting a perman· ant-Governor Collins began his settle· ent structure. It was not till the merit at Hobart Town, on the memor· 8th February, 1812, that a decision was able 21st :February, 1804, a marquee come to at Sydney to erect a hospital was doubtless pitched for the purposes building here. It is also highly nec­ of the General Hospital. Where or essary, writes Governor Macquarie on when the marquee was erected has not that date to ¥ajor Geils the command­ yet been ascertained from the published ant, that a General Hospital for the records. Possibly this important item rec::Jption of the --sick convicts and of information may be gleaned some other persons in the settlement who can· day. At the beginning of its history n :)t. otherwise prQcure medical atten· the General Hospital was staffed with tion should be erected at Hobart Town . a principal surgeon and two assistant a':l soon as the Government can eon· surgeons in the persons of William ve-niently command the means of doing !'Anson, Matthew Bowden, and Wil­ so. Until the latter part of the year liam Hopley. From the 27th July, 18C8 there was not, seemingly, a sett.Ier 1804, the assistant surgeon on duty at here with medical qualifications. In the hospital was required to attend all t:lC last quarter of that year the local punishments which might occur among co~ulemnation of the ship Dubuc, a

the prisoners. Hopley, it may be stat­ South Sea whaler1 was the happy ed here, came hither with a wife and mc-flns of funrnishing the settlement two children. Bowden came from Port wi ~h its first private doctor in the per· l:"hillip in the storeship Ocean with son of Thomas William Birch, who ar· Lieutenant-Governor Collins and the ri\·ed here on the 2nd May, 1808. This first detachment numbering 259 persons gentleman waS an Englishman who had of all ranks and classes. Hopley, and t.:erved as medical officer on the Dubuc perhaps I'Alison too, remained at Port till her condt'mnation as an unsea­ Phillip unt_il the removal of the second worthy vessel After that event he detachment, under Lieutenant Sladden, d(.cidid to settle in Hobart Town, where which comprised about 74.persons and lw married a settler's daughter, fol1ow­ arrived _here in the ship Ocean on the C(l rommereial and pastoral pursuits, 25th ,Tune. Wheth·er the General Ho!!­ and built Macquarie House in 1814, be· pital was set up at Robart Town be­ sirles relieving suffering humanity, very fore or after the landing of the second often freely, at his popular surgery in detnchment is nllknown at the present M acquarie Street. A few sceptical time. Nor is it known so far whether per~ons are disinclined to recognise T. the marquee for the patients was pitch­ W. Birch as a qualified medical man; ed on Hunter Island or within ''the but that attitude of mind cannot be <~amp,'' possibly on a .site not far dis­ maintained in the face of im official tant from what was designated in print recognition of his professional status. ~ welve years later as Hospital Hill. On the 6th September, 1808, William Wherever the General Hospital was es­ Hopley, second assistant surgeon at the tablished by the Lieutenant-Governor, General Hospital, requested leave of ab­ there it remained during his command sence to enable him to proceed to of the settlement. Certainly in his England for the recovery of his health: time neither ma.terjal nol' JabDUl' was Thereupon thf' IAtmtenant-Gov~rnor oT-

• dared a survey on the sick doctor by of the detae-hment, with kitchens and a board of three surgeons, namely, :t small military hospital, after you William 1 'Anson and Matthew Bowden finish the additions and repairs now from the General Hospital, and Thomas making to tho chureh and Government Birch, surgeon on the ship Dubuc. House- for yntu· aecommodation. These These professional ~entlemen, his Hon· Barr'acks and also a Civil General Hos­ our required and d1rected to visit Sur· pital and new gaol must first be ere<'.t· geon Hopley, enquire into the state of ed and completely finished before any his health, and report to him under npw Gov<>rnmf'tlt House is_attemptrd to their hands whether they thought it h(' built. necessary tbat he should be invalided According to a summar~· of the rle· nnd sent to England. The report of ~patches frm•t Lieutenant.·Governo! these recognised surgeons may be seen Da,:e~· to lteatlquarters, he wrote on in the first volume of the Historical the 3rd May, 1815 a despatch, in which Records of Tasmania. In those br he :i.nnoun<'ed to his Excellency his in­ off times the title of ''doctor'' was not tention of building a new General Ho!!­ nften used at Robart Town or Sydney pital on an eligible situation, but not in official documents. The gene~al tlJC· ont' fixed on by the Governor. practice was to describe Matthew Bow­ Oul_v n snnunary of the despatch was den, for example, as Mr. Bowden, . and avaibblc to Dr. Watson, but in the first. sometimes as Surgeon Bowden. volume of the Historical Records of During his visit to the Derwent in Tasmania he pi'incy of seYeral alterations in the warehouse of Messrs. Susman and Co. plan by which the accomodation for and adjacent shops, and .produces beau­ the patients was enlarged, the venti­ tiful flowers. In the ''Gazette'' of lation waf'! improved, and a separation the 2nd June, 1821, may be seen thh was m.:1de between the male and female advertisem<>.nt:-"To be let, all those patien'is, and several domestic offices extensive and valuable premises situate were provided that had been neglected in Liverpool Street, lately occupied ns Gr deemPd unnecessary. The situation a General Hospital. For particular,; of the hl)~pital was well chosen, and apply to the proprietor,· P. Miller, on the ample extent of the ground at­ the premises." tached to it will afford the means of Here it may be stated that in No­ Rddingfurther accommodation whenev~r vember, 1819, and no doubt for some the wants of the colony require it. hme previously, a room in Mr. Fisk's The reports of Commisioner Bigge hJill in Liverpool Street, was hired by were publishecl in 1822-3, and, mirabil~ the Government for the medical treat­ dictu, only one of them is in possession. ment of sick nativCs. On the 4th of the Tasmanian Public Library. The Kovember the Lieutenant-Governor is­ dimensions of the public buildings irt sued an order- for the early closing of 1820 ~rc pulJlishcfl in the third volume this temporary hospital, and then, on of the Hi~torieal Records. His Maj­ the 31st December, Mr. Luttrell wa::~ esty's Get1·~ral Hospital, aR the institu­ authorised to continue the place at tion wns ('~dl'd officially, measured 28 Fisk's mill, at 10/ a week, for the ac- feet in lencth hv 37 feet in breadth. It ('Ollllll'isc.J on· the ground floor two ;~~~~;sdaf~i~nwl~~rr:n;:l~~~ls t;~;e i~v!f1~ men's rooJ~ts, one of 28 l1y 18 feet, and able at the General Hospital. An ex­ the ot.lte1· Ul by 10 feet, one women's amination of the accounts Of the Pol­ nom. 18 by 17 feet, surgery, 14 by ice Fund for 1820 shows that Mr. A. 1:..: feet, superintendent's room,20 by F1sk received rent at this rate, from 0;! feet,_ store room, 14 by 9 feet, men's the 1st Janu~ry, to the 2nd Decem· dC'tJJl room, 14 hy 7 feet, ,..-omen's dead ber, 11 for a house usecl for out-patients room, ]4 by 7 feet, and a hall entrance of General Hospital.'' In the fourth 1 8 by 10 ft>et. On the second floor, quarter of 1820, Charles Connelly re­ Us it was f'.tylcd in the return, were' CEi'ived £16/10/ for 22 weeks' rent of two men's rooms, each 28 by 18 feet. Court Rouse, which was situated some· Taking the bedsteads to measure 6 feet where in Liverpool Street, _and· in the by 2~ feet, and to be placed three feet tecond quarter of 1821, £15 for rent of apart, and nllowing for the room occu· n house occupied by hospital invalids piecl .by fireplace and door,s Surgeon to the 30th June. Priest calculated that the four front In one of his reports Commisioner wards woulrl contain 40 beds, and the J. T. Biggs, who arrived here on the two back wards, 16 beds, making a:· 25th February, 1820, mentions that total of 56 beds. 11 at Robart Town the house of an in· To a Ynry Comprehensive review of dividual had been hired for some tim6 his administration of New South for the reception of patients. It was V\talcs anrl Van Diemen 's Land, date.! ill situated, low, and possessed no do­ Lo1ulon, 27th July, 1822, and addressed mestic accomodation. '' On_ my arri­ to Earl Bathurst, Major General Lach­ val, he says, I found that the founda· lan Macqum·ie appended a list and tion of a hospital ·had been laid and schedule of public buildings and works the building was proceeding upon a erected, and other useful improvements plan that had been furnished by Mr. made, in the territory of New South Evans, the Deputy Surveyor General, Wales and its dependencies at the ex­ and that had been approved by Gover­ ponsc of the Crown, from the 1st _Jan­ nor Macquarie. Upon considering uary, 1810, to the 30th November, 1821. the plan and taking the opinion of This list cocupies 17 pages of small Mr. Assistant Surgeon Priest, who had print in a volume of the Historical lately arrived from England, I took hecords of Australia, and to enumerate an early Opportunity of submitting to his public buildings and works in this islandJ 2£ pages are used, Item, 13 ~s; ing room, but only one case was ready A large, new, commodious, brick-built for trial, after the decision of which Colonial Hospital, two stories high, in the Court adjourned till the followin~ an elevated, airy part of the town, Tuesday, when it was expected that near a stream of water, with separate the Criminal -Court -would be vacated wards for women, and capable of ac­ for the constant sittings of the Su­ collllllodating 100 patients, having all pl'eme Court, and when, as a inatter of the necessary out-offices, the whole of fact, the Judge sat and the Lieuten­ these premisese enclosed with a high ant-Governor and the Judge Advocate brick wall. Item 21 in the schedule attended. A bench of magistrates is: A private house purchased for was convened on the same day in the Government, and converted into a bar· court room in the New Colonial Hos­ rack for the Colonial Surgeon and two pital, and the Judge Advocate attend­ 1 Assistant Surgeons. A fuller descrip­ ed. In the ' Gazette'' of the 5th tion o£ Macquarie 's creation is found May, notice was given by Edward Ab.­ in a report to the Medical Department bott, junior, that the bench of- magis­ under date the 12th July, 1826. At trates would be held in future at the the Hobart Town Establishment run~ Xew Colonial Hospital; as also the tliis account, there is a hoSpital' built office of the Deputy Judge Advocate. of brick, of two stories, containing In l'esponse to a requisition from 21 four rooms and a skilling part contain­ leading residents, Provost Marshal ing two rooms aild two small cabins. , Beamont obt.·tined the concurrence of Two of tl1e larger rooms are approp'ri­ the Lieute:1ant-Governor to the holding ated for male patients, one for female of a publi~ meeting in the New Colon­ patients, and the other for medical ial Hospital on the 26th April, at one stores. Thes'e three rooms are only o'clock, for the purpose of the' congrat­ capable of holding about 16 patients ulations of the depenclency being offer­ in each. One of the skilling rooms ed to his Excellency, the Governor-in­ is used as a dispensary, with the cabin Chief, on the occasion of his second as an office for the clerk; and the'other visit to the Derwent. A lengthy ac­ is occUpied by the overseer and mat­ cutmt of his tour through the island ron, and3ts cabin as a bedroom. De­ is published by his Excellency in Gov­ tached from the hospital there are a ernment and general orders issued at deadhouse, kitchen, a room for the dis­ Sydney on the 16th .Tlily, 1821, in penser and clerk, and a lock-up house which he announced that the principal appropriated for the •insane people, public buildings which had been erect­ and in daytime by pe1·sons with feign­ ed at Hobart· Town were a Government ed diseases, or who have disregar-ded Iiouse, a handsome church, a commo­ the directions of the . medical officer dious military barracks, a strong gaol, D.tending the dispensary. The usual a well constructed hospital, and a number of sick at the hospital is from roomy barrack for convicts, which lat­ 50 to 70. A mode of management te,r 1Yas now nearly completed. s~milar to naval or military hospitals Originally the General Hospital was has been adopted, and preserved as provided ·with ·only one assistant in far as circumstances will admit. In the person of Samuel Lightfoot, but January, 1819, the Supreme Court 'as­ by a general order of the 30th April, sembled .in Hobart Town for the first 1808, Valentine Healy was placed on time, and sat in a new house situate the list of overseers, commencing on at the foot of ·wellington Bridge and the 16th instant, and to attend at rented for five we-eks at a total cost of the General HospitaL Samuel Light­ tt>n guineas from Thomas Peters, the foot 'vas appointerl hospital assistant owner and license~ of a p\tblic house on tho lOth November, 1803. He was iJ, the vicinity· known by the sign of victualled at full allowance from the the Duke of York. On the 19th Jan­ 17th October, 1803, until the 17th uary, 1821, the Court·of Criminal Juris­ May, 1818, wl1en he died suddenly, diction began its sittings at the room "by the visitation of God," accord­ fi1tcd up for the purpose in the new ing to the finding of the , coroner's hospital. On the 1st February, the jury. He was generally respected, Supreme Court was opened in the retir~ like Old Charlie, the gatekeeper, in the eighties. He~ was succeeded by u~igl1bourhood, writes Collins to Lord Edward Spring, who filled the dual Hobart, on the 3rd, has .been for some post of wardsman a~d overseer for weeks covered with snow. Scurvy, the sum of .£25 a year. A ration for diarrhoea, a11d catarrh are the pre· sick conviets was fixed at Port PhiJ­ va iling diseases. In a despatch to lip on the 18th November, 1803. The the same Minister on the lOth Novem­ surgeon, rub.s this early general order, ber, the Lieutenant-Governor mentions will send a return to the ComJ)lissary, that when the Ocean sailed hence on on the morning of each prOvision day, the 9th August, there were only 29 of the number and names of the sick persous in the surgeon's report of sick cOnvicts under medical treatmentj for ancl lame; but, he continues, I am whoso uao .he will issue the following much eoncerned to have to state that rB.tion, which Will be drawn by the from that period to the present, the surgeon, and served out to them in E.curvy has broke out among' the people such proportion as he shall dircct:-31 in an alarming degree. Though SOme lb. of beef o:r 2Ib. of pork, 7lb. of ha,Te died yet many lives have been biscuit, and lib. of flour. At the 'Preserved by the issue of kangaroo Clld of 1804, when .scurvy was caus­ meat. Not less than 60 persons have ing much anxiety to one and all two been at different times supplied with gen-eral orders on the feeding of. hos­ a quart. of kangaroo soup from thn pital patients were published. The Hospital, the meat o£ this animal be· - Deputy Commissary, runs the first or­ ing boiJprl "..-ith rice and such vege· der of 8th October, will, until further_ tables aF: l rould furnish from the orders, i&sue to the sick at the Gene· Government garden. The season of I·al"Hospital the flour that came .from the year has been nmch averse to my England in the Ocean, storeship. The dl'riving much aid from fish,- but what­ principal surgeon, runs- a general or­ ever has been in my power I have sent der given three days later, will issue to the sick. In another despatch on to the sick dUring their continuance the lOth November, the Lieutenant­ in the General Hospital, such portion Governor -tnforlllS Governor King that of bread, and -flour only as they may since the Ocean left on the 9th Aug­ be able to consume, drawing no more l<:;t, the scurvy had carried off ·nine from the public sto:"es from time to of the prisoners, and 21- others are tin).e than may -be requisite for_ that still labouring under that disease. purpose. In the returns, signed by Surgeon In the year 1804 the resources of !'Anson and dated lOth November, the small hospital at the Derwent 1804, tl~ere were three .marines, five wire taxed very severely by the nu­ free persons and twenty-eight prison­ merous cases of sickness which the ers sick. 'Of the thirty-six, scurvy staff were called upon to treat and cases numbered 21; diarrhoea, 5; de­ sustain, due to scurvy, diarrhoea, and bility, 2 :_ opthalmia, 1; cata!rah, 2; cattarrh. The ca~ses of scurvy in­ consumptiOn, 1; lame, 1; dislocated cie'ased from the arrival of the Ocean 1:oc, 1; contused knee, 1; and sore on the 25th June, 1804. The Ocean, head, 1. In the returns prepared on reports Collins to King on the 31st the 8th December, there were three July, brought me in a large sick list, marines under treatment, one for 81 most1y of scorbutic patien.ts; indeed, days for opthalmia, a second 12 days the scurvy had of Jato begun to show for scurvy, and a third one day for itself among the people who came swollen face. Of free persons one with me, but the fresh meat, which I was under treatment for 20 days for have been enabled to give the sick rheumatism, a second 42 days for diar­ through tho abundance of kangaroos rhoea, and a third 11 days for catarrh. wbich we still meet with, will, I hope, Of prisoners one was under treatment soon subdue it, and I trust, now that 139 days for scurvy, another 120 day:> we are altogether, I shall not meet for debility, another 21 days for with any more unpleasant disappoint· strain, another six days for dislocated ments. In the month of August the clavicle, another five days for swelled ~ituation was far worse, owing to the testicle, another two days for sore winter sea,son. -A mountain in my hand, another 420 days for lues; an· othor 76 days for ilfarrhooa, another the General Hospital, Hobart Town, Sl days for contused-knee, and another for two years' serYice. This return ll days for contusion; The last four OC~!Upies nearly half a page in the cases were brought from Port Phillip. fir~t yoluruc 0£ the Historical Records On the 16tli January, 1805, the prin· of 'l'asmania. The medicines enum­ cipal surgeon reported that the sup­ erated· in the enclosed application from plies of sago and rice sent ·out for the the surgeon, writes the Lieutenant­ use of the General Hospital were near­ Governor to Lord Hobart, are such as ly expended, and suggeSted to the either were nOt sent out at first or Lieutenant-Governor the expediency v.'hn t we shall be in want of by the of a quantity of each article being time they ('an ::J.rrive from Englap.d. purchased from the ship Myrtle, lately Our eonsumpion of hospital medicines &rrived froin Port Jackson, which was nntl atore~ hM been very great, hav­ done. By the 20th February, 1805, ing ha.d no less than 4f:i7. people under tlte Lieutenant-Governor was able to mer1ical Lrcu.tment since we· first landed report to Lord- Hobart a decided im­ at T'ort Phillip, most of whom have provement in the health of the Settle­ requil'ed a daily allowance of wine. ment, by reason of the excellent soup This requisition of August, 1804, had povtded for the sick by the chef at uot lJcen complied with by April, 1806, the General Hospital. I have, writes whEn n supply of· medicines for the COWns, in high spirits on that date, hospital wa.s pro('.ured from SydnQyo th(' s~t.lsfaction of acquainting your The nedicines sent by the schooner L.:ndship that our sick list is very Estremina, writes Collins to Governor considcrahly reduced, there being only King on the 20th, have been received tMs day ten under medical treatment. eri 1.r.ft> and will be useful, particularly So soon as the progress of the scurvy the Lark~ but I shOuld hope that sup­ was effectually checked, I discontinu· plies of medicines and hospital neces- ed neeiving kangaroo into the public 8a;ries will be found for this Settle­ s~ore, and I liave every reason to be­ ment on board the transport that you1 lieve that this distribution of fresh sir, expect, as I have repeatedly pres­ nnimal food among the sick was at­ sed for such being sent out. Evid­ tended with the beneficial effects I entlv the local medicine ('.best had not expected therefrom, and whieh. induc­ beeii · replenished from England· by ed me to adopt the measure of receiv­ March, 1809, for on the 25th of that fng it 1n at sixPenCe per lb. The whole month his Honbur, in a despatch to quantity delivered at the General Hos· IJeutenant-Gov'ernor Paterson, expres­ pital between the lOth of September ses a fear that the whole of the en~ (the date of he order) and the 30th of £"losed list of medicines, etc., required Deeember>when it was discontinued, by the surgeon for the, use of our was 3124lb., of which only 26141b. were hospital canitot be furnished at Syd­ pair! for by the Commissary, the re­ ney; as many of them~ however~ as mainder having been sent in by my­ ('an be spared are extremely neces self. Our gardens now abounding in sary. Apparently the medicine chest vegetables, I have little fear of the was kept well supplied afterwards, scurvy again making its appearance for no complaint on the subject is among us, and should it arrive with found in the Historical Records until any newcomers, I trust we shall Qe page 322 of the second volume is able speedily to subdue it. Accord­ l'Cached. The stock of medicine, re­ ing to the returns, between the 9th rorts Lieutenant-Governor Sorell b August and the 19th December, 1805, the Governor on the 23rd May, 1818, eigh.,..en persons died at Robart Town, is now very much reduced here, many inclnUing nine from scurvy and three of the principal and of most ordinary from catarrh. demand being expended. Mr. Luttrell, The nursing of the sick in the Set· upon whom I some time ago called) t.lement made a big drain on the stocks stated that l1e had made a requisition in the medicine-chest. On the 3rd bEfore he left Sydney, and expected a August, 1804-, Surgeon l'.Anson sub· supply by every ship, at\d I now en­ mitte~sistant Surgeon Hood peatedly complained that the patients "has had several successful eases, and I in the hospital absent themselves there­ had intended to place in Mr. Brough­ from ·without permission, and contrary ton's charge a box, addressed to your to the regulations there.of, runs the E,xcellency, of fresh matter collected edict o'f his Honour, any patient who here, when I learnt by the Duke of ~:baH in future go beyond the limits Wellington that the vaccine matter ·of the hospital without, shall be sev­ was now secured at Sydney. I trust erely punished. On the morning of it wi11 be preserved here. The vac­ Saturday, the 25th June1 1806, an at· cine virus, comments Dr. Frederick tempt was made ~o · de&troy the Hospi- tal Stores by lire. Interesting par· tions to unite their endeavours to dis­ beularM of this c.ase of arson are given cover them, more particularly if they jn the general order ie:sued later in the are desirous o£ not being considered aa duy, ~tnd roprodueod In tho firot volume of a party with such unprinefpled of tbo J!iotor_lcnl Records of 'l'nsmun,la. wrctehos. In order to discover tbo abandoned 'rh~ mlsmnnagenumt of the Genera-l and Infamous porpolrator or porpotrat· Hospital In 1818 w"' •• ooond•louo oro of tho dootruollon of tho Hoop!tal "' to ovolJUmt·Gov~rnor SonU. At th@ ond houn of throo and four lh!o -morning ol Auguot, ha lnformo4 ~"''""" Lut· b)' ooltln!f II on !!ro In oovoro! p!oooo, troll thai l>n w•• undor tho nouoM!ty runo tho proc!omatlon, tho Lloutounni­ of cml!ing his nttontion to th~/J'ft~umt GpvernQr, in thf3 hope· tbllt sJJah vile, sit u:1 tion of the hospital nnd o some detest~bl~, and atro!}ious miscreants o£ the patients, whie.h appeared to re­ may be brought to justice, is hereby quire V{'ry great alteration and re­ ple.ased to offer the following rewards, form. A patient named Jones, whom itamely, to any prisol).er, male or fe­ h~ linr1erstood to be in the last stage in~le (the actual incendi;try, or in· of delJility, had absented himself from cendiaries alone excepted), who ·shall the imtitution :md represented himself give such information respeeting the to haYc been without sustenance. He person or persons, who committed the sent for the superintendent, and cer­ ftbove act, so that he or they can be tainly from his answers to inquiries fully Convicted thereof, a free pardon, , ther~~ :wemed to his Honour to be a a p~ssage to England free of all ex-· total want of that system and ar­ pense, a security for his or her person rangement in an hospital, which ought until he or she can embark, and the and must he established. From the sum of £100 sterling on conviction of superintendent's replies it appeared the offender or o~enders. And, in or­ that no soup was made, that the meat der that the inhabitantS of the Settle­ 'ms cookecl as chance allowed ,without ment may judge of the necessity and any general arrangement, and that the propriety of bringing these daring of­ tea was weighed out individually to ~enders to justice, the Lieutenant-Gov· the people. That the Lieutenant- ' {ll'nor acquaints them that there were Governor conceived to be directly at destroyed, of the hospital stores, 212 varianee with the prope-r arrangement pairs of sheets, a quantity of bedding, of a hospital, in which there should clothing, portable souv, m~dicine, b<' diet lists, and the whple provisions, child bed linen, glass and ·pewter tea sugar, etc., ought to be in charge utensils, a loss that must be felt by of 'the superintendent and the meals every individual in the colony who may and messes prepared under his diree­ hereafter have occasion through Hlness tion-- daily. The system of Navy and to apply to the General Hospital for Military ·hospitals would be in many :r:elief or assistance. The Lieutenant­ resperts the best adapted to the colo­ Governor is persuaded that this was an nial hospital. But were the rules and attempt to intimidate _a witness from practice as to diet, etc., of the Eng­ prosecuing two wretches, now in con· li~h hospitals to be adopted, no doubt finement, and that the contrivance of it wou1d answer. At present he was it is kLown to more than one person. constrained to say that no system of He therefore thinks it necessary to in­ Urrangement at ail appeared to him tO form the prisoners that it is his de­ exist. · termination not to apply. to his Excel­ The L·leutenant-Governor had done lency the Governor-in-Chief for an ex­ his ptut in affording Surgeon LuttreH tension of his Majesty 'a clemency for all the aid which rested with him. T)w any individual_now in the !3ett1ement, ~ surgeon had a superintendent very until the perpetrator or perpetrators ndequately paid to make him a respon­ of this destructive mischief shall be sible person, and he shoulcl be sup· discovered. He thetefore calls upon ported and made answerable for carry­ all the prisoners, in whose be_half he ing proper regulations into effect. If was now applying to the Governor-in­ the superintendent was unfit for his Chief for free pardons or emancipa- employment, one more fit must l;le ap- pointed. The artleles of bedding, pre3s.ion of the order and system to utensils, wine, tea, and sugar had been which he had been accustomed in mili­ liberally afforded, as also male .a_nd tary hospitals, and which prevailed in female attendants to the surgeon's de­ the English hospitals. These, he con· mand. His Honour could,. therefore, eoived, should be the model of· ours conceive no possible reason why the Its far .as the means went. The prac. hospital and the patients should not tice of issuing ~o e~h patient his whole be, in regard to lodging, diet, cleanli­ po,.tion of tea and sugar, and wine ness and all essential points, upon as wher! ;riven, appeared to him to render good and respectable a footing ns any; those indulgences worse than useless, and it was his clear intention, so far for, besides E"Xposing the articles to_ a.s rested with him, to have them so. almost certain robbery, the ·sick man With this view, having now explained mjght drink a11 his wine at once, O.l' the defective state of the hospital in barter hi~ tt>a o.nd sugar for pernicious an its arrangements and his general 3nppHes. This was the part of the idea of the system which.ought to be system whh•h Reerned to be suseeptible established, he~ had to express hiq of immediate improYement. He was direction that it might be forthwith liMld:V to do what rested with him to carried into effect. On the following facilitate the surgeon's making an al· Saturday he would visit the hospita1., teraHon. and would then be able to judge fully Hygiene was not a hobby with the as to its state under his present in- authorities at . the hnspital in 1825, to 'stTuetions. - the regret of Andrew Bent when he Two days later Surgeon- Luttrell strolled along the bank' of the rivulet. made his reply, which is not available, Most of our- readers are aware, re· and :forthwith received further critic­ marks the Gazette on the 28th Janu­ ism from the Lieutenant-Governor. He ary, that Hobart Town is at once bon· was aware, he said, that the economy (lUred and adorned by a hospital, which o:f s hospital must depend upon the undoubtedly proves a public benefit, means :tfld conveniences it affords, anil and merits general respect; but really he_ should not expect it to be carried­ until this morning we were not aware to , perfection in the present house. bv '"~nt mode that hospital discharg­ But, ns there are two wards and two ed its :filth. Let us hope that in fu­ ski11ing!l, he con('eived that one grand ture it may not be allowed to mingle principle might be adopted, the hav­ with the riVulet. ing a system o_f dieting· under the. ln order to insure a regularity with ~ direction of the superintendent. Soup respect to t~e siek in the Gaol Gang, a and plain meat could be the only direction was given by Lieutenant-Gov· varieties. The tea, sugar, etc., should crnor' Sorell on the 18th December, he cone:eived,- be in the charge of -the 1818,' for the adoption of a. system. II superintendent,, and made regularly in Such men of the Gaol Gang as are Ute morning. If dishes are wanted found unfit for work in the m(}rning arc l1e would order a certain number to be t(, be kept in, explains Lieutenant Rob­ rnnrlc, for which the superintondent inson to Surgeon Luttrell, and the sur· would be responsible. He conceivml geon to. visit the gaol daily, between that much might be done towarcls an nine and tenJ .there to see the sick, improved system b-y a strict attention when the gaoler will be -present and on the part of the surgeon to the con­ will mark off such of the gaol gang as- duct of the superintendent, and by are exempt from work. No man in making him accountable for his daily that gang is in future to be taken to <'X~Jenditure, and for Cf).rrying on the the hospital until after inspection by' a "ook!ng and preparation of messes at surgeon at the gaol, except in the ease 1i~ea b{'ottrs, with order and regularity.· of sudden emergency from sickness o-r Tho £-uperintendent should be heid accident nor is any man· to be exempted strietly responsible for the eonduet until so inspected, except during the - -r of the nurses, and for the room being hours before brea1tfast; and the inspec- kept very clean. His Honour did tion is to be made daily, during the . not kn'ow the system of the Sydney breakfast hour, viz., from. nine to ten. Hospital. He wrote under the im- The gaoler Will then bo enabled to re· • port the men eXempt each day. Fur· to limit the issue of extras· to men ther regulations regarding sick and in· whose complaints rendered them essen­ valids were communicated on the 29th tial, and who could require only a re­ June, 1819. The Lieutenant-Governor duced ration of meat. In well regu­ writes his Honour, has to request that lated hospitals the system of dieting Mr. Luttrell will, in any case where he was nrranged so that an increase of one considers it necessary, that a. prisoner species ~-f nourishment was covere~ by i.o. the gaol gang should be in single o. ·reduction of other~. It •was obv1ous irons, give a written certificate to the that a full ration of meat and bread, gaoler to that effect. Several of the such as was allotted to a worJsing man priso_,rs. having been taken out to in health, could not be required for worlfin single irons, a practice which is men in sickness; and. upon this prin­ ordered to be discontinued, the sur~ ciple, until a general system could be ·geon 's certificate will be necessary to attained, the hospital must at present · indemnify the .gaoler for removing any bl• conducted. man's irons, as ·the keeping of such In January, 1819, the supply of ~edi­ man from labour will follow. The cines for the hospital's ·out-pa.bents Lieutenant· GovernorJ understanding was not satisfactory, and so on the that some prisoners in the gaol aro 25th the JJientcnant-Governor wrote a.n · sick, requests that Mr. L.uttrell will re­ orde~ to ]..fr. Surgeon Luttrell with hi'3 port should any of them be in a state eompliments. Considering it very de­ to require removal; and, should any of sirable and necessary for the number them be in want of necessaries, he will of 'Persons who as out-patients, come , also report it. An issue of bedding under the c.harg'e of the Assistant Sur· and slop clothing for the exclusive use geon, that. a portion of the medicines of the gaol having been made a few on hand should be placed under his days ago, the Lieutenant-Governor con­ immediate- control, runs. the letter, the cludes, there can be llo defiieiency in Lieutenant-Governor directs that one these respects. Inattention to his in­ moiety of the medicines, returned by s~ruCtions evqked a strong minute from :M:r. Luttrell, in a proper chest (which his Honour on the 25th September, 1819 mav be drawn from the store). shall The Lieutenant-Governor, it runs, find!! he ··p'}t: iil Mr. Assistant Surgeon Ham~ himself called upon to desire Mr. Sur· ilton-"js ellarge, for which· he shall ~e geon Luttrell's attention to instruc­ accbuntable: Mr. Hamilton will attend tions some time since given respecting to-morrow for tllis purpose. - medical attendance arid inspection at On tl1e 5th August, 1819, the ·Lieu· the gaol. At ptesent men confined in tenant-Govei-nor acquainted Mr. Sur· the gaol gang who report themselves­ geon Luttrell by Jetter that the lar~er sick are without any cheek, though, hy ancl more commodious. house belongmg the Lieutenant-Governor's orders, a to P. Miller in Liverpool Street, having niedical officer was required to visit been some time since tendered to Gov­ the gaol daily. The gaoler is now di­ ernment as an hospital at the same rent rected to send daily to the hospital at as is now paid for the- buildings so em­ nine o'clock a list of men sick, or who ployed, he had caused the house to be report themselves so, and the Lieuten­ inspected yesterda~ by the acting engi­ ant-Governor requestS that Mr. Luttrell neer and Assistant Surgeon Hamilton, will include them in the daily report, and that, in consequence of their fav· under a distinct head, as the only auth­ ourable repo.rt of the aceomodation, he ority on which the gaol gang will he had causeil the house to be hired from deemefl exempt from labour. Monday, 15th instant. 1 There beipj? In October, 1819, ;Lieutenant-Gov;er­ some work required to complete one of nor Sorell intervened again in the in­ the rooms for oceupation, continues th~ terest of economical dieting. ' In a letter, the Lieutenant-Governor will Jetter to Surgeon Luttrell he stated postpone inspecting the house till it. is that he had dii-ected the su-perintendent reported read:v, when he will fix a day to aequaint Surgeon Luttrell that, ow­ to see it with the medical officers. ing to the considerable expense which Mr. Luttrell wil1, however, see it j.n the was occasioned by the present system mea:n.timc and wiii'fix his arrangements and enlarged numberS, it was necessary . for removing t.he hospital on the 15th. The Lt.·Governor requests Mr. LUttrell male and female attendants, and all will furnish him, as soon as is can be patients. When· the Lieutenant-Gov· made up, with a return of all bedding, ernor visited the hospital on the 6th. beds_~eads, furniture, and utensils in December, the superintendent reported charge of the superintendent of the hoB· to Assistant Surgeon Hamilton in hiS pitn.l, with a S'[lecification of defi\eiene· presen:l'l a gr_eat defiicieney in bedding. ies, and Mr. Luttrell will also report The Lieutenant-Governor has to little prior to the removal of the hOspital purpose, writes his Honour on the 7th· whether the present superintendent and December, enjoined Mr. Luttrell to wardsmen are adequate to their duties. make application for any supplies re­ quired for the hospital, expressing his' Should Mr. Luttre111 after inspecting the house in question, have any re­ desire to furnish any assistance and· to-. mark to offer' as to the arrangements supply any demand that could reason­ for the hospitaiJ he wil1 Of course com­ ably be made for the improvement of municate them to the Lieutenant-Gov­ the hospital. The Lieutenant-Gover·· ernor. I-n- a note Dr. Watson sttites nor must now· again desire Mr. Luttrell ·\ that in August; 1819, the hospital was to send in a return of the aqtual stores transferred to a house leased from of all kinds in hand and in use in the P. Miller, in Liverpool Street, and at hospital, with aR estimate' of de:6ici· the end of the year it was decided to encies, including also utensils of all estab1ish an hospital for convalescents, kinds. On the same_ day the surgeon With the provision of ample aecom· made a reply which is not available, modation in the leased house the Lieu­ and which evoked another letter from t£nant-Governor on the 16th August, Govenrment H uuse. The Lieutenant· 1819, requested Mr. Surgeon Luttrell to Governor, in reply to Mr. Luttrell's lay it down as a rule, now that the letter of this

was to be the discharging day from h·ell oll the 17th December1 to make ;he hospital for all persons victualled a proposal for the hire of the room for r:rom the store, Mr. Luttrell would have hospital use. He was requested to n. return prepared on each Friday, sign­ state t.he number of patients which he ed by himself, ·to be delivered to the estimated the hospital to be capable Commissary by noon on that day. Such of containing, the number of invalid~ patients as might appear to Mr. Lnt· who were at present in hospital, and h.·ell to require tea and sugar must be for whom he conceived it indispene­ stated at a half ration until a more nble to provide accommodation; an(! ccmprehensive system of dieting could tll'.' Lieutenant-Governor would then be adopted~ and those for tea and fle~ermine on his proposal respe~ting sugar would be stated at the bottom t.hc hire of Mr. Fisk's room for the of the return. On economical grounds latter. On New Year's Eve the pro· Lieutenant-Governor Sorell directed on posal was adopted. The Lieutenant~ the 12th June, 1820, that the issue of Grvernor on thnt day acknowledged candles for the hospital should be marlr> th0 Teeeipt of ·Mr. Surge._on Luttrell's·· from the lumber yard, and the weekly letter of 23rd inst., stating the capa"&­ issue of the same was fixed at three ilit~·· of the hoSpital as to containin~ pounds from the 15th April to the 14th pn tients. With a view to its health1· September, and at two pounds from the nPss and order, he authorised Mr. Lut­ 15th September to the 14th April. trell to continue the place before hir­ In 1S19 there was a branch hospital Nl by Government at Mr. Fisk 'a for for the treatment of natives. It was the invalids at 10/ per week. It is conducted in Fisk's mill, which was tCI be" understood; h·owever, adds lli.~ situated in Liverpool Street, near Wel· Honour, that the invalids must do lington Bridge. On the 4th November without any attendance; and· Mr. Lut· its discontinuance wa·s decided upon, tt·ell will direct such arrangements aa and the decision was communicated to hr jitdfr-PS best for their iSsue of pro­ Surgeon ·Luttrell. As it· appears that visions7 bedding, etc., and for their the native peOple, who have been fur­ rpguln.r die.ting, cle.anliness, etc., con nished with medical aid and shelter sidcring the establishment as an ap· and food at Mr. Fisk's mill are nearly pcndage of the hospitalJ and stating recovered, at least sufficie'ntly so to once a week, namely, on Saturday, need no longer to be k('pt there, the tl1 e nall1es of tlte invalids on the sick Lieuten&nt·Governor, runs the letter, report. requests Mr. Luttrell will make ar· The deficiency and inefficiency of· rangements for the discontinuance of the medical staff at the Derwent mov· that establishment at the end of next cd Lieutenant-Governor Sorell on the week; and he will report the same to {ith December, 1820, to implore the the Lieutenant-Governor. Not hav­ Governor for early relief. I take ing received a report by the 7th De-· leave also in the most earnest manner, ct•mbcr, his Honour desired Mr. Lut· writes his Honour, to convey my rep· trell-to report as to the breaking up resentation of the state of thiS set­ of the establishp1ent for the native tlement with t·egar(l to medical officers. people, on which r-epeated orders had The population of this town is now not Qeen sent, without being acknowledg­ less than 2500, and the Settlement ed or obeyed. The desired report was contnins three times the number of submitted forthwith, and considered on people that are at Port Dalrymple. same day. '£he Lieutenant-Governor! The gaol at present has in it about finding from Mr. Luttrell's report- that --- ft·om, hoth settlements, and Mr. the native people were in got?d health) Luttrell's age, infirmities, and oth.&t disqualifications have bean long before sentenced to be· publicly reprimanded your Excellency. At this time only for neglecting to attend a woman in one assistant stirgeon is attached to the laLour ttt the General Hospital. The station. A commodious hospital is comniissiollS to William- I'Ansont Bow~ now ready for occupation but it would den, and Hopley, were worded Sllllilar~ be vain until an officer 'competent to ly, and issued on the '14th January, I take its charge and economy on a prop­ 1803. Ten shillings a day was the re· f er footing be named to have it oc­ muneration of I'Anson, who was borft. m.lpied. The nomination of Mr. Espic in the year 1779, and died in November, of the Royal Navy to the post \Of~ sur­ 1811, aged 32 years. He was not more geon a.t Port Dalrymple induces me to than 25 years of age when he landed hope that your Excellency may be at the Derwent. At Simons Town he 1! pleased to 'name a naval surgeon to received an advance o£ £10 to enable· I this station as the description. of of­ him to procure some stock there. Ae· · ~) ficer wlrich best permits an efficient cording to the returns of live stoek in · discharge of the duty, and that in the the settlement, he possessed four geese event of an arrival of sub-medical of­ on the 4th August, J 804, and twelve ·~cers you may be pleased to authorise days later he was advanced commissari· the nomination of another assistant at. notes· to the amount of £100 to enable surgeon. J;:tim to purchase some stock and other At one time femaie patientk were articles from a. ship in port, repayable permitted to take the air in front of in two years from· t~mt date. On the the hospital; but for some reason not 18th October, 1806, he had twelve disclosed in the records their co­ s.heep and six goats; on the 14th July mingling with male. patients there was 1807, he had three horned cattle, 47 4ispleasing to Lieutenant-Governor sheep, and five goats; while on the lOth Sorell, and so on the 6th November, May, 1'808, he owned seven horned cat· ].820, he took decisive action to s.epar· tie, 93 sheep, seven goats, and two ate the sexes. The Lieutenant-Gover­ swine. In May, l809, he held 100 nor requests Mr. Surgeon Luttrell, he aaes of land, of which five acres were writes, will give particular instruetiQns in wheat. On the 8th October, 1810, to the Superintendent of the hospital he i-eceived :frim Governor Macquarie" respecting the women who are sick, a grant of 500 acres at the Derwent. who should not be permitted to come The principal stirgeon, as wall as the o·ut for air in the front of the house. two assistant surgeons, was an officer· but shouJd be always hi the grqund at oi the Volunteer Association O::hd Night the back of the building. Any men Watch, formed at Port Phillip on the who are troublesome should be report· 1st January, 1804, to patrol the settle­ ed to the Chief Constable in order to ment from the beating of the taptoo tO­ their being confined. The Superintend­ that of reveille, with power to search E'nt, under the direction of ,the medienl such places as may be deemed necess- officers, will be held responsible should ary for the discovery of any felori;t,, any disorder occ.ur, or for any neglect trespass, or misdcmcunour, and for ap• . with re~ect to the custodv of the fe­ prehencling and securing for examina- male prisoners in hospital ~ The Lieut­ tion any suspected person. This Asso· · t·mmt-Governor desires that all men ciation of civil officers continued its from the ro:td gangs who are brought voluntary work at the Derwent fo1· in sick may be received at once into some time. To I'Anson belongs the hospital and therein retained for cure eredit of prospecting the issue of kan­ anrl not to be discharged until fit t~ garoo meat to combat the prevalence of l""'hll'n to thf'ir work. that malignant disease, the sea scurvy.,.J\, William I'Anson was the first prin· vmong the convicts. On the 8th SeiW'·~ cipnl ~nrg-e?n at the Gent'ral Hospital, t(·mber, 1804, he reports to the distract· nlHl, l1ke h1s two collertgues, he was li· ed Lieutenant-Governor that the dis- able by the termS of his commission to ease appears to be gaining ground trial h;v court martial. In April, 1805, daily, and that as a vegetable diet, the James Mileham, an assistant suregon n.ust certain and effectual remedy can- on the staff at Syd"ney, was tried bY. not be obtained at present, he is of .court martial, notes Dr. Watson, and opinion that a supply of fresh animal f'(lod Hkangaroo" would have a good Bowden landed with the other eh·il nlf­ effect in ~:;ubduing the disease. His icers, and uo doubt he proceeded to v;ise counsel was adopted, with satis· find a suitable place for pitching som.~ factory re~ults. Then, on the 16th tents for the accomodation of himself January, 1805, he is concerned at hh and any hospital patients .for the time rapidly diminishing stock of sago and being. On the night of the 30th rice~ and, being a practical man, he June, l1e suffered the loss of a ewe suggests to the Lieutenant-Governor Iamb from the rear of the hospital, the expediency of buying a quantity of whNever it was Situn"ted. Next day tho.':le nourishing artiel~s f~om the Sllip came out a general order offering a re­ Myrtle, just arrived :From Sydney. ward for good information regarding Again his .prudent counsel was taken the perpetrator of the theft. A fine with .alacrity, and attended with bene­ lamb, the property of Mr. Bowden, hav­ ficial results. On the 20th February, ing been stolen from the pen in the 1805, he and Bowden are directed to rear of the hospital in the course of enquire into the nature of a complaint lnst night, by some person or persons from Lieutenant Lord, and· report to unknown, runs the preamble to the gen: his Honor whether a remoyal from this eral order, the Lieutenant-Governor iR country is absolutely necessary to .the i1ereby pJeased to promise to procure recovery of his health, In obedience a conditional err. ancipation for any to your commands, report the surgeons prisoner who shall give him such cer­ two days later, we have inquired into tain information of the offender. or off­ the state of Lieutenant Lord's health, . enders, as shall e~w hie him to convict and we are of opinion the nature of him or them of t.he nforesaid felony.· his complaint is \auch as to render his No further refere:we to the fine lamh· immediate return to England highly of Surgeon Bowdf'n is to be found in necessary. On the 17th September, the interesting- pnges of the first vol­ 1808, the Lieutenant-Governor called ume of the Historical Records of Tis· on Surgeons !'.Anson, Bowden, and mania. Birch to make a medical report on the , On the .18th nrcember, 1805, Gover· health of Assistant Surgeon Hopley, nor King granted eight leases of land and their report was favourable to the a.t Hobart Town for 14 vears. Bowden g:rant of leave of absence to the sick ::~nd Hoplev i-eceived i lease of two surgeon. ucres each: On the 15th August, 1804, Matthew Bowden was the senior as­ a grant of 100 acres of land near Hum­ sistant surgeon a.t the General Hospit­ phrey's Rivulet, was made by Governor al from 1804 to 1811~ when he became King to Matthew Bowden. . On the acting principal ,surgeon. In general 8th October, 1810, Governor Macquarie orders dated 1st FC'brnary, 1812, re­ issued- a grant of 500 ae,res to William cords Dr. Watson, Senior Assistant Sur­ Bowden at the River Derwent, being geon Bowden was promoted to Surgeon the same as he granted on the _same vice· WilHam I'Anson, deceased. In date to Principal Surgeon !'Anson. the subordinate position, Bowden re· According to the earliest returns avail­ ceived the remuneration of seven shil­ able to Dr. Watson, on the 4th August, lings and sixpence a day, with his vic­ 1804, Bowden was a joint-owner with tuals. He was born in the same year F'osbrook. William Collins, and Harrig as !'Anson, 1779, and died in October, of five ewes, three lambs, six goats 1814, aged 35 years; so that be was in and six kids. Twelve days afterwards charge of the General Hospital for less commissariat notes. to. the amount of than three years. At Rio de Janeiro £40 repayable in two years, were is­ he received an advance of £5 for the sued to him to a1low of his purchasing purchase of stock there. On the 21st some stock nnd other articles from January, 1804., .he was ordered at Port the ship Myrtle, On the 1St~ October, Phiiiip to hold himself in readiness 1806, Bowden possessed on h1s own ac­ to embark in board the Ocean, store· count, two horned cattle, 90 sheep, and ship, with the Lieutenant-Governor. sf'ven goats. On thE- 14th July, 1807, From Risdon Cove tlte Ocean proceed­ his stock comprisell eight horned cat­ ed to Sullivan Cove on the 19th }..,eb­ t.le, 28 sheep, SO lambs, 1ive goats, and ruary, 1804. On the following day eight kids. On the lOth May, 1809, B~waen had 11 horned cattle, 116 furnish. . A :lew days 'afterward~ ·'be­ sheep, 12 goat'S, and six swine. Of his -ing up at Risdon, I visited Mr. Hart· grant .of lOU acres, Bowden had only ley, and found him much better. To one acre iu gardeit in October, 1806, the .best of my knowledge, Mr. Hart­ In July he held 105} nares, Qf which ley, during his illness .l.id not want for 2cT acres were 1n wheat, two acres in an:Y medical treatment or regimen that barley, 2 roods in potatoes~ and one the place at that time· afforded. In rood in garden. ;rn May, 1809, he held February, 1805, Bowden was joined 11.12 acres, }ll;l.Y·ing nine 11cres in wheat. with his chief in making a report on Five official .r.ep£,.rts :by Bowden, as the health- of Lieutenant Lord, and in tU:Isistant surgaon ~re e~·tant. In May, October, 1808, with his ehief and Sur­ 1R04, he was directed py the Lieutcn­ geon Thom~s Birch in. furnishing a ant-Go:venor, in his presence, to open medical repOrt on the health of Assis· the bo.dy of the Iat 'Nicholas ~iroelle, tant Surgeon Hopley. · because some person had incorisiderably The ethics of Matthew Bowden were suggested, from the suddenness of far from satisfactory to Governor Mac­ death, that the died by poison. ThrJ quarie at hif!: first visit to the Derwent, surgeon, announces his .Honor, opened a.ud so ·in -a memorandum penned by the body o£ the late Nicholas Piroelle, his Excellency for Captain John Mur­ faetorily anc,l clea'tly ascertained the ray, on Sunday, the 1st December, cause of death. According to thP sur­ .1811, on the eve of ;his departure • gMn 's report, a large quantity of wat· overland to Port Dalrymple1 one reads er baa stopped the action of the Jung&, that the commalHlnnt is not to permit the heart was unusually large, but not Assistant Surgeon Bowden to presume otherwise diseased, and the stomach to molest Hicllflrd Sarjant, of the de· <'ontnined a small quantity of half· tachment of marines, on aceount of his rligcsted food, in which there was no­ l!aving had his lawful wife this day thing remarkable; the liver was also restored to him- by my orders. At much enlarged from some former dis· the _end of thirteen month,s, his Excel­ ease.- In August, 1804, he with others, lency regarded Bowden as one of sev­ reported to the Lieutenant-Governor on ural designing characters at the Der­ ·a. survey of pork and flour received at went. On the 6th }'ebruary, 1813, he the victualling stores from Sydney. wrote seven private memorandums for In December, -1804, he submitted a the service of Lieutenant-Governor :medical report, on the ease of John Davey, then 3.t Sydney awaiting a pas· Rartley, a settler at Risdon, whom sage to Hobart 'l'own. The Lieutenant­ about the first week in the previOus Governor ought, warns his Excellency, May, the Lieu_tenant-Governor had re to be very much on his guard on his quested him to visit. As Mr. Mount­ urrival at the Derwent against some garrett had the care of the sick belOng­ designing characters there who wiil ing to your settlement left at Risdon, <>ndeavour to impose upon h1m1 and mis· l"'eports Bowden ·in December, I beggeJ kad his judgment by artful insinua­ he would accompany me. We found t.~ons and pJaasiblt> but interested pro· 11:r. llartley in a state of debility, oc­ :eets and speculations. Messrs. Knop­ casioned, as we apprehended.J from per· wood, Fosbrook, Humphrey, Loane, slating in keeping his bed, He attri­ Bowden, and I(ent all come less 01 buted his present :weakness to his hav· more under thiS deseriptifln; and, ha\-­ iug . been ruptured by some iii-treat­ ing g~erally opposed the measures of ment he experienced on board the Ooe- the present Commandant, the Lieu:t· 1in pn her passage 'from England. The cnant-Goyernor cannot be too much on Only .remedies whieh appeared to us to his guard against their machination!:!. rt?'qnfre was n nutxitive diet with a. B<'ginning in l 803 with a salary of little wine. I accordingly sent him £136/17/6, in 1814, when he was prin­ at once a gallon of sherry, eight o7 cipal surgeon at the Derwent, Bowden ten pounds of riee, and oatmeal at rec~ived from D.A.C.G. Hogan only different times. Mr. Mountgarrett £132/6/, because his salary of ten shil­ obligingly said he would call on Mr. lings a day was subject to a deduetion Hartley, and would ~~aka eare that ha of 10 per cent. for income tax. He wanted for nothing in his power to died on the 23rd October, aged 35 years, and was buried in St. David's that for a considerable time he- had Burial Ground, close to Salamanca laboured under a very ill state of Place. According to a return compil­ health, which rendered him incapable ed at Sydney by D.C.G. Allan, his sal· .of performing his duty as an assistant ary was paid up to the 21st Octob,_· surgeon. Having very little prospect 1S14. of recovering in ·this country, he was William Hopley, the .first assistant desirous of proceeding to England~ con­ surgeon, took charge of the General sidering that the only method of effect­ Hospital on the death of Matthew ing so desirable an object. An. op­ Bowden. In January, 1803, he re­ portunity now offering in the ship Du­ ceived a commission, and with Col­ buc for that purpose, he continues, I lins, be left, England as the second as· have to request you will be pleased to sistant surgeon for the proposed set­ have the goodness to order a m6dicnl tlement at Port Phillip. He was ac survey on me in order that I may be companied by his wife and a child, as invalided. I have :filled the situation well as by his mother-in-law, JJn. of assistant surgeon_ and surgeon in Hobbs, and her children. Hopley, ap­ His Majesty's Service be~ween· thir­ parently, was the only married surgeon tee)\ and fourteen years. I trust those under Collins, and -hiP. pay was at the services you will be pleased to consider rate of :five shillings a day, With vic­ and that the indulgence I now request tuals. At Rio de Janeiro and at will not be refused. Next day his Simons Town he receivCd an aclvance Honour gave, unrler his hand at Gov­ ot. £5 to procure -stock there, while erJ;~.ment House, an order for a medical later ·at Hobart Town, on the 16th survey by· William I'Anson, Esquire, August, 1804, there were issued to him Mr. Matthew Bo-.vden, and Mr. Thom­ commissariat notes, to the a.mount of as Birch, surgeon on the ship Dubuc. £25, to enable him to buy stock and As the result of their examination of articles from a ship caUed the Myrtle, Hopley, the three dof'.tors expressed the just arrived from headquarters. On belief that a removal to his native the 18th December, 1805, -a two-acre climate might be of benefit to his re­ a1lotment at Hobart Town was leased covery, and they recommended his be­ to Hopley by Governor King for 14 ing allowed to return to England for years, and a similar indulgence was that purpose. In a despatch, dated granted to Jane Hobbs. According to the 16th NovemberJ 1808, Coliins refen 1 n return, in October, 1806, Hopley had to the Dubuc as a· ship ' now laying two acres of land in garden, and own­ condemned in the river,'' so that Hop­ ed a bull and two cows; while in July }{'y had to proceed to Sydney to seek 1807, his area had increased to 2! a passage to the old country. acres, of which he had two acres in At Sydney on the 12th March, 1810, fallow and two roods in garden, own­ Hopley requested Secretary Campbell ing three cows. In 1807, for some to submit to the Governor a memorial reason which is not ascertainable, he tendering his resignation. In his let­ incurred the displeasure of the Lieu­ ter to the secretary Hopley expressed tenant-Governor, and was suspended the wish, if it did not appear to the from duty. With respect ·to Mr. gecretary improper, that his Excellency Hopley's conduct and your suspension were acquainted with the circum­ of him, writes Governor Kin~ to his stances of his relatives. On leaving Honour on tl1e 1st October, I cannOt England, he states, I brought out with Lut approve of; nevertheless, I would me at my expense and under my pro­ I'ecommend that a severe reprimand tection, my wife's mother and "her f;hould be given to him a:nd returned family~ Mrs. Hobbs is the widow- of to his duty; when under such fioodne~s Lieutenant William Hobbs of the Roy­ on your part, if he again behave ill, al Navy. He died in actual service no leility cnn be shown to him. It in consequence of an injury he received ill truly distressing when we reflect 'by his zeal o:f H.H. Service, leaving on the bad characters that are about a disconsolate widow and six children, us. four girls and two boys, with no other On the 6th September, 1808, Hopley support than the widow's pension of !'~presented to the Lieutenant-Governor £30 per annum. Her eldest son wa1 1 just appointed a lieute:n.a:u.t tn the :Soy· rymplc1 and his request otherwise to al Navy. His mother looked :finally follow the pul'port of his. commission up to him for assistance, but unhap­ at Sydney, his large family obliged pily he was ki11ed soon nfter in Egypt hhn to take immediate- steps for thetr by a. cannon shot, whilst attaekinO' n future support. Memorialist, from fort. Just at this period I was .;ar· these circumstances, wished to resign ried to her eldest daughter; and my his appointment at the Derwent find­ friends at the Peace of' Amiens advised ing it utterly impossible to supp;rt his my coming tO New South W~lcs, and large fnmily on· his salary (of five an application was m:ulo for appoint­ shillings a, day). Therefore he humb­ ment; and, although they were well ly and earnestly hoped his Excellency :fitteil up, yet in consideration of the wo~ld be pleased to bring to remem­ E'ervices of my family an additional bl;'ance his services prior 4io his 11-PPoint· assistant surgeon was appointed to the ment in New South Wales, being in the ~stab1ishmerlt. I thought my mother-, most active employment the whole of m-Iaw would be more comfortable with the time. He further presumed· to their sma11 annuity in New South hope that his Excellency would be Wales, consequently I made application pleased to r.onsider _the many dif'fieul­ to Government, who readily consented Lies, privations, and heavy expenses in· and- ordered her and her family every cident to the .foJ'_ming of a.u,, infant col­ attention and comfort agreeablC to her ony, particularly in the case of the deceased husband's rank. I have the settlement b which he was attached. happiness to say her daughters are all After remaining twelve months at Port married to officers of the Derweflt es· Phillip, put to very great expenses, tnblishment; and the mother comfort­ the whole establishment was removed able,. .and havpy. · Lleutenant Hobb~ tL• Van Deimen 's Land. These hard­ served with ·Commodore Bligh~ I pre· ships fell particularly heavy on mem· sume to mention these circumstance~ orialist, being the Qnly married officer to shew that I have had a great deal and incumbered with a large family, ol trouble and anxiety of mind, and remaining near three yelirs undor dam­ I humbly trust his Excellency will aged canvas, and .at last obliged to. consider these circumstances irit my build a house for his family at a very fa-vour. For my own family, they great expense, no barracks being even have been in the Public Service fo1 yet erected for officers, nor any remuu~ 8ixty years past. I have had two eration in lieu. Memorialist, now brothers killed this war in the army, wishing to become a settler, with the and the only remit.ining ol).e now alive greatest respect and submission, humb-:, io serving in a regiment of the line as ly solicited that his Excellency would captain. For my own part sir, I have allow him a grant of land (having sufl'ered every species of 1 oppressio11 never had any grant) for himself and since- I have been in New South Wales,' children, as mentioned in the margin, though it is of all things most painful and such other indulgences as his Ex­ tc. me to say anytbinJl to the prejudice c.ellency in his wisdom might 'think' of my superiors, it would be taking up proper to consider as a compensation too much time to recapitulate -every for his services or otherw~e, subject to circumstance that has involved me in such conditions as his EXcellency may tl.is distress: but I have the satisfac­ deem proper. Your Excellericy's mem­ tion to feel that I do not. merit it. orialist, concludes the supplicant, once The huinble memoriit] of William more respectfully presumes to beg Hopley is worded quaintly, and illu-s­ leave to call your attention: to the trate~ the thf'n method of communica· consideration of his singularly dis­ tion by n civil offi(';er with the Gover­ tressed state, and humbly trusts your nor in Chief. Memorialist humbly Excellency, with your '~onted benevo­ hnp~d that his Excelencv woud be lence and humanity, will graciously be rlf:'aS('d to pRrilon the neeesRity for his pleased to grant the prayer of his flp,-ain intrufling nnr1. a second time memorial. And memorialist, as in trouhJinJl. But, from having failed in duty bound, wiH ever pray. In the his applicntioiu to be appointed to the days of Lachlan Maequarie., a man first assistant surgeoney at Port Dal· needed- to possess much literary sk.iU &•1 'frame a memorial pleasing to the situation, and was discharged by order high standard of the critical Scot. In of tho Port Admiral into II.M. brig .hi.1J marginal. note Hopley said he had Insolent, where her commander certi­ a da\lghter, aged 9 years, and two sons, fied that he conducted himself "as a Richard and William, aged six and g-ood and worthy officer.'' three years. He added that Richard In April, 1810, Hopley sent in an ap­ was the first-born child -in this settle· plication to Governor Mncquarie to re­ ment, and with this claim Dr. Watson sume duty. I humbly presume to take deals in a note. , In the return of the liberty of informing your Excel~ births prior to the 31st July, 1804, Ieney, writes Hopley, at Sydney on the the learned editor remarks, the name 21st, that I have by every means pos· of Richard Hopley is not mentioned, dble endeavoured (both by myself and and it is .h. 1801, a.s pt'iancc with a reqoisitioi!-, Hopley was 1mrgeon: and on board H.M. brig In­ called , upon to give a certificate re­ f\Oient, under the command of Lieut.­ garding an accident which happened to Commander N. Kertright, from the 3rd Lieutenant-Governor Davey nearly two March,. 1801, until the 1st February, years before. He certified that 1802, as surgeon. Sir Joseph Yorke Thomas Davey, Esquire, ect., did, on r1.eclared that on the stag Hopley con· the 27th day of l!,ebruaty, 1813, at 10 ducted himself as a -zealous, ~oorl, and a.m., while visiting that part of the able officer in the execution of the im· settlement caUed New Town, received portant dutieg committed to bis. care, a fall from his horse, by which acei­ and is from ill-health and other eausfiS dent he fracturt:d three ribs on the 'vorth:v the e.onsidera-tion of those who right side, and was so much bruised ha.v9 the J?OOd things of this 1ife to that he could not be removed to head­ heRtow. Commander Chambers said ouarters for a considerable time after­ that on the Forester Hopley conducted wards. At this time Hopley's rate himself as beea.me the 'duties of ·hi~ of pay :was 7 j{$ a da.y, subject to a ' tleduetlon of 10 per cent. for income 1815, Governor_ Macquarie promote4 tax, so that from the 1st January to William Hopley to the rank of auT· the 24th December, 1814, he received geon at the ·Derwent Settlement, he from D.A.O. Rogan only £120/16/6. deemed it advisable to appoint Assis· Prior to Julyl 1815; Hopley was pro. tant filurgeon Hemy· St. John Younge rooted to be surgeon, which advanced to fl.ll the vacant position of first as• his rate of pay tp 10/ a day. At one sistant surgeon th'ere. On the 18th time Hopley had a location of 50 ·July, 4is Excellency· informed Lieuten· acres o.t Pavilion Point. Lieutenant· ant-Governor Davey that M.r. Younge Governor Collins had no power to grant with his family now proceeds to tho or lease Crown land; but nevertheless Derwent in the brig Emu. Subsequent-' he allowed a location of~ 50 acres eac\ ly to the death o:t Hopley, Assistant to John Ha.ngan and Samuel Gunn ..at. Surgeon George Bush of the 46th Regi" this point, whieh was called after­ ment was appointed by the Lieuten· wards Haugan's Point or Farm. Lieu­ ant·Govemor to act as the colonial tenant Gunning, who succeeded to surgeon, and a convict named Theo­ Gunn 's location, received an indemnity philns Mitchell was made acting second t/ in land elsewhere. Hangan sold his assisbt~Lt surgeon. Many months elaps- :1 location to Hopley, who conveyed it to ed before his Excellency became aware R. W, Loane. In 1818 Loane pub­ of these two lo~al appointments, and lished an advertisement warning off impudent interferences with the exer· alt' people, and especially the stone eise of his prerogative. In the still quarrymen of the Government. Wheu hours of an April night at Sydney h"e he was eal1ed upon by Lieutenant­ learned the news as he was examining Governor SoreH for his title, he said the various items charged to the Po­ he _held a ('.onveyance from Hopley. lice Fund of the island. Iil perusing. Governor Macqua.ri~ decided that no the accounts of the Police FUnd .of· grant or lease of-the location having V.D.L., he writes to the .erratic Davey ever been granted; no one could h·ave on the 12th April, 1816, I observe ,maily a legal title thereto. Correspondence improp~r and objectionable charges, ensued, and finally, in October, 1819. but which I have not' now time tO r the Lientel}ant-Governor aequainted remark on so frilly as the importance ·.1 Loane that it was llDalienated Crown of the subject requires. . r cannot, 1 land, but as it was originall_v occupied however, pass over two chS.rges that by Hangan under the authority of appear to me to b6 most ·unjust, name· lflentenant-Governor Co11ins, and sub­ ly, £38/10/0 paid to Mr. Bush as act· !lequently transferred, it rested with ing colonial surgeon, and £34/17/6 paid Loane, in whom that claim as sncces­ to a convict named Theophilus Mitchell t:zor to Ho-pley Wll~ \'CSted, to apply for as acting second colonial surgeon. a compensation in land. AftC'r bold­ Doth these charges stand unauthorized ing the -post of surg-eon for a few by me, and never can receive my sanc­ inonths, Ho-pley died on the 24th Aug· tion, as I consider them to be most ab· U8-t, Hp5, and was buried in the same snrd, unneccessary, and a gross imposi­ grave as his frif!nd,, Lieutenant-Gover­ tion on the Crown. On the death ol nor Collins. John Ingle and James the late colonial surgeon, hiS duties of Hobbs were brothers-in-law of Hopley, course devolved on the assistant sur· whose daughter Julia was married on geon (Younge) who is bound to do all the 28th August, 1817, to Mr. Robert the medical duties of the Civil ·nepart­ McGuire. ·The Rev. RObert Knopwood, ment without receiving any additional o{ course, conducted the ceremony at r·ay until the vacancy is rEJgularly :filled his residenee, Cottage Green, wh~ch up; and consequently there oould be was a-ppron<".hed bv a lane from the no necessity for appointing Assistant left-hand ~ide of Harrinl!'f;on Street. Surgeon Bush to act as colonial sur­ On the 22nd 0<"tober, 1827, the lady geon- at all. The allo-w:ance of 7/6 per ' •li('rl at her bnshantl 's licensed house. day paid to TheophiJus Mitchell as in Bli?;n heth Street. The Coach and second colonial surgeon, there being Horses Hotel, 1eoaving three children now only one assistant surgeon allowed to bment her de"ath. • for each of the settlements on V.D. When in the first half o:f the yesr Land; but, even if a second assistant were allowed, it appears most extra­ :first assistant surgeon at the Derwent, ordinary to pay a common convict for upOn the promotion of William Hopley doing that .duty the same pay as a to the 1"ank of surgeon. .This informa· first nHsistant surgeon holding His tion is gleaned from a despatch of 18th Majesty's commision,, as such receives July which finds a place in the second at Head Quarters, whore- he haS ten volu~e of the Historical Records of times the duty tO perform that the Tasmania; but in his Second memorial surgeon or assistant surgeon has at to Earl Bathurst, printed later in the either Bohart Town or Port Dalrymple. $ame interesting volum~ 1 Younge states I consequently very highly disapprove that he was appointed first assistant of both the charges alluded to, and surgeon at Hobart Town in October, mtist ever withold my sanction of them. 1Rl4; --and, as Js well known to eve!Y I must, therefore, once for all positive­ person familiar with the memorials tn ly enjoin you not -to make any appo~nt· Et. David's _ burial ground, Matthew. menta, of whatsoever nature, that are Dowden died on the 23rd October, 1814, Iiltely to entail any expense to the when his duties of surgeon devolved Crown, without first obtaining my per upon William Hopley till the vacancy mission so to do. In ·the event of was filled by appointment of himself, your disregarding this_ order, I shall therebv leaving vacap.t the position of he under the painful necessity .of pre­ first "assistant surgeon. Possibly fHring a regular complaint against you Younge was second assistant surgeon to his :Majesty's miluster for disobedi­ at the time of Bowden' death. At ence of orders and contempt of my ,'ll\V rate, he must have been at the authority. The service of Theophilus nerwE'nt long' before the 18th July, Mitchell, convict, being required at 1815, because in a despatch, dated Sydney, it is my positive orclers that 2nd May, of that year, Davey advises he _shall be sent up to Sydney on the Macqua.rie that Assistant Surgeon return of the brig Kangaroo hither. Younge hacl sold the lands, etc., grant· At the inqueE~t on the bo(ly of James ed him by the , Government. With 0 'Burne, murdered by bushrangers, evi· his family.Younge sailed from Sydney dance was given on the 16th August, in July, 1815, on H.M. Colonial bri~ 1815, by Theophilus Mitchell, a sur Emu, to assume the duties of an assis­ geou. About three weeks before, he t-ant surgeon, and at the Derwent he . deposctt, he wns called upon to go to was a source of much trouble to Davey ~ew Norfolk to attend some persons :n\d SorE'11, who each had to suspen,"t who had been wounded by a banditti him from duty. In the forefront of of bush rangers and robbe-rs from the his memorial, Younge informs Earl woods. On his arrival at D. Mc­ Bathurst that he was appointed by Carthy's house he found James commission, dated 1st January, 1813, 0 'Burne, the deceased, dangerously assistant surgeon on the Civil Estab-. wounded in the face. He had him lishment of N.S.Wales. He proceeds immediately removed down to Hoba?t. to relate that he obtained the appoint­ Town. He had attended him ever m~nt through the respectability of his sinee. That mo?ning he clicd. On connections, being a nephew of Mrs. dissection he found some slugs (pro­ Uoyd of Kemsing._ near Seven Oaks in duced) which had passed through the Keitt, a. Ia:dy of very considerable integuments of his el1eek and lodged landed property, and being known to in the neighbourhood of some large most respectable families in that ne~h­ artcrie~, which hatl occasioned death. bourhood, and more especially to the The verdict was that James O'Burne Rev. Dr. Rumplll'ies, · the veneloable was murdered wilfully by James 1"CC-tor of Deal in Kent, the seat of Whitehead, Peter Septon, Michael Earl Camden·. Younge mentions, too, HoweJ Richard Collyer, Richard Me· th'at in his professional cap~city he was Gwyre, Hugh Burn, _Peter Geary, strongly rerommended by the gentle­ George Jones, and a woman native of men under whom he studied, the phy­ this island, who is called Mary. ~icians anrl surgeons of the Middlesex Henry St. Jolm Younge, assistant Uospital, by Mr. Carque, professor of tmrgeon at Sydney, was appointed in attatomy. He adds that he pass.ed July, 1815, to flll. the vacant post .of t1te Royal College of Surgeons as a S'Urg!eon, although he do'es not imme­ by a general court martial at Sydney, diately possess the diploma, certain · and expressed hiS desire to be permit­ fees being requisite; a.nd that those re· ted to come up to Head· Quarters to commendations received additional rrosecute him as soon as he was re.­ honour by th~ patronage of "your . lieved by Colonel Sorell. To that de­ krdship.'' , _ spatch a reply wa-S made on the 7th The character of assistant 'surgeon March, when his Exeellehcy told the Younge was repellent to Governor rccnlled Lieutenant-Governor that, on Maequaric but his services had to be being reli~ved by his successor, who 1 !,1 availed of Until the medical 'Staff in ·wa-s now hourly expected at Sydney, the island colony could be recruited he would be at liberty to repair to vrith efficient- and ,reputa~le surgeons. Head Quarters on the return of the 'fhe senior _assistant surgeon now at GoveJ:"nment brig Elizabeth, for the> th6 Derwent, writes his Excellency t11 rurpose of prosecuting Younge before Earl- Bathurst on the 18th of March, a IZ'eneral court martial~ w~ich he woul.d 1816, is Mr. St. John Younge, whom I order to be held immed1ately on hu~ sent thither some short time ago to arrivri.l at Sydney, where Mr. Younge succeed Mr. Hopley on the promotion still continued under arrest. When of the latter to be surgeon; but Mr. the exasperated Davey asked Lietite!l­ Younge is a very trifling, dhsipatell :mt-Governor Sorell to order certam Young man, and very ignorant. of .his evidences from Hobart ToWn to em· profe:ssion, so that it wOuld he -domg bArk with him fof the purpose of sus­ g·reat injustiCe to the PubliC ServiM to· taining his prosecution against Younge, p'romote him to any higher situation his Honour did not feel himself authpr· than the one· he holds at presen,t. ized to give such orders without high- Neither Mr.- Younge at the Derwent nor , er authoritY. Mr. Wade, chief eon­ 1\f:r. Smith the assistant surgeon nt Port stable, waS one of the persons named, Dalrymple has any claim f;rom charac­ ·he tellS the .Governor on the 23rd June, ter (•r professional skill for succeeding 1817, Anil. as he stated that he should t-o the surgeonciea at those stations on · prefer resigning his situation to goin~ fl•eir' bceontl"lg vacant. About tht> up, whieh wonld ruin l.i~ f!tmilv and end of October, 1816, the Lieutenant· husiness' and as h~ also an-eged that Governor took strong meas~res towards Colonel 'navey had promised that he t ounge and sent him under arrest to should not be called upon, he was the S'ydney' to be tried on a charge, which more induced to waive the demand Cannot be read in his own despatch of made by Colonel Da'\"ey. On the 16th· the 2nd Novemb_er, for the simple Sept('mber. the Lieutenant-Governor rf\ason that fivedespatches written by reported that the Jupiter would be him m October and November are not rf'ndv in ei.ltht days to leave for Sydney nvl\,ilable. Younge ari-ived- at Sydney with. Colonel Davey and various evi· (JD board the Kangaroo, and was still rlences in the prosecutions of Naval t:.nder arrest on tlle 13th December. Officer John Drummond, D.A.C., Pat· v-·hen Macquarie informed Davey that, rick Hogan, and Assistant Surgeon h~ the opinion- of judge-advocate Younge. It was not in the brig Jupi· Wylde, Younge could n~t be tried by a ter, but in the ~hip Pilot that Davey general court martial without further sailed away from the Derwent, to· <'vidence or the Lieutenant-Governor g('ther with the three witnesses sub· Mmself.be}ng on the spot to prosecute poenaed nt his -desire on Assistant Sur­ him. He desired to know as soon as geon Youn~te's trial, accordin2' to a ~possible what his Honour wished to Uespatch from Sorell on the 13th Octo­ be done further in the case. The judge her. On the morning of the 27th Oc­ advocate did not consider that the tobe'r, at Sydn.ey, he received from the J>aners referred to him contained suffi­ Governor a letter apprizing him that cie~nt evidence against' Younge to- sub­ no general court martial could now be stantiate the two charges preferred hchl on Younge, in consequence of an against him. In a despatch to the opinion given by the judge advocate on Governor, dated 7th January, 1817, the late trial of D'Arcy Wentworth, naw~y intimated his deter!Jtination to principal surgeon, from a belief that have AssiStant Surgeon Younge tried the medical officers on the civil eatab- Jishment of the colony were not amen· I have felt it my duty to pla.ee Yr. At· . able to martial law. From this cur­ sistant Surgeon Hamilton, 48th Regi· I! cumstance·, rep1ied Davey, I have to re· rnent on the Colonial Estab)ishment, quest that your Excellency will be eubject to your approva.I, at 5/ per day, pleased to return to me Mr. Assistant as was authorised by your Excellency Surgeon Younga;s presumptions lind b.­ _when under similar pressure, Assistant suiting letter, Wbieh I transmitted to Surgeon Hood was so employed. In your Excellency in the early part of the event of Surgeon Mountgarrett be- his confinement. In {1 noteJ Dr. Wat­ . ing enabled to resume his dutie111, the sou mentions that on the lOth Decem- contemplated resignation of Mr. Assis­ 1-er of the previous year, Younge had tant Surgeon Smith might perhaps in­ made an ,apo1ogy- to Davey, which he duce your Excellency to approve ot· puhlishes--.in his second volume of th!O' Mr. Younge's remaining at Port Dal­ His.toricat Records of Tasmania. Re- rymple, as one of the r~'gular establish-­ 1!ecting eeriously and maturely on the ment in that succession; and Mr. Ham­ nature and tentlency of my recent <',or­ l!ton would be able_ to supply the va­ respondence with you and the highly Pnncy here until the arrival ol medieat insubordinate and disrespectful style officers should admit of the vacaney tl:erof, writes Younge at ·sydney, J being permanently :filled_. On the 24th have now to express my sincere contri­ ,Tunc the Lieutenant-Governor desired tion and sorrow for the same, and earn­ Yomige to hold him111elf in, readiness to estly entreat you wiJI be so goo-d as to proceed to Port Dalrymple. on the 30th nccept this as suificient apology and instant, there to report himself to the at6nement for my past. misconduct Commandant and to receive his instruc­ promising in futUre tO pay to ·your higl; tions. A Government bullock dray station every deference and respertful · was provided to carry his baggage:. attentio:q as ?leU as obedience to your but the offer of a Government horse­ orders. 'Bi a Government and gen­ was declined because he had not a sad­ eral order, dated 30th September, 1817, dle and bridle. In due course he ar­ A ..- S;-- Younge was released from his ar­ rived at Port Dalrymple, and reporteJ· rest, anddirected to return t6 hig duty himse'lf to the eccentric· Commandant, at Hobart Town by·the first opportun­ the reiieVing surgeon found out to his ity that oft'ered for that settlement. dismay that he was to be sent to In less than a year Assistant Surgeon George Town. As he .wrote later, the Younge waa auspended a-gain, and on prospect of going to a station "with­ thia oeeasion for insubordination. no out any barracks or other accommoda­ was an ,officer with a wife and three tion whatever was of the most dismal ebild~en,_ and his rate of ·pay was 7/6 nature.'' He heard, too, tliat Mount­ a day. From the northern side in garrett was on duty, and that the reSig­ nation of Smith had been refused b) J"nne, 1818, Major Cimitiere1 reported to the Lieutenant-Governor that Dr. the Governor. After experien~ing M~untgarrett, assistant surgeon, had much politeness from the ·commandant abSented himself from his. duty for for a few days, the peeved physician o,~er three weeks, and- that' owing to made up his mind to depart secretly Hs eireumstances Jte eonceived his re­ for the Derwent, where he arrivild on turn distant and uncertain. The nee­ the 5th August. He was suspended cessity of keeping two medica} officers next day for having, when under orders. at Port Dalrymple (O"ne being for to remain and at duty as a medical Ge?rge Town);. where increased J?OPU· officer at Port Dalrymple, quitted that la:hon renders 1t most necessary has in­ station and settlement and returned to dueed me, writes Sorell to thC Gover­ the Derwent without any permission nor on the 29th June, to (lirecf Assis­ from the Commandant, without the tant Surgeon Younge from hence to knowledge of the Lieutenant-Governor, proeeed thither, so as to enable the and in direct disobedience of and d,e· Commandant still to carry into effect fitmc<' to the Ol'(:lcrs under which he was the arrangement of sending one medi-· acting; and for having, w~en called eai officer to George Town. In con­ upon by the Lieutenant-Governor to nc· sequence of this change and the pres­ ·count for his extraordinary and dis­ requ~red ~o sure of duty- here, espeeiaily at present1 obedient conduct and rc- tum to hi1 appointed station, positive­ Jng on busitte.IJI!I wa.e an.nrere4 by the lY refused to. do so without assigning Commissary. On the 11th, Mr. Young_, any grievances or introducing any plea was taken out out of the Anne) whaler, in justi:Bcation o£ J1is conduct. I have being found concealed in disguise in suspended him, writes the Lieutenant· the hold, where he had stowed himself Governor on the lOth August, until away, by the constables who searched your Excellency's commands shall be for prisoners. Understanding that Mr r~eeived. I am sorry to say thn.t Mr. Younge was very anxious to proceed Younge's general habits are hi.g-bly de­ to head quarters in order to solicit grading and unbeiitUng his situation,· your Excellency 'a leave to go to Eu­ and I consider him altogether a most rope, I r.aused it to be made known unfit and disgraceful vurson to be in that I should not object to his having the medical service~ I have submitted a passage with his family in the Gov­ herewith to your Excellency the com­ ernment brig upon that express ground. plaint in a specific form, copy of which I apprehend, however,- that he cannot has been sent to Mr. "Younge. Tho leave the Settlement. In those days action ot the Lieutenant-Governor was a man could not leave & Settlement approved on the 24th September. I without producing an official ~ eertift· wu extremely sorry, replies the Gov­ cate that he had publicly noti:fied his ernor, to learn that you had been under intention to depart, and desired an the necessity of suspending Assistant claims against him to be furnished. Surgeon Younge for insolence anii dis­ In respect to Assistant Surgeon Younge obedience or orders. His conduct cer­ remarks the Governor on the 21st De, tainly appears to ha\'"e been too gross cember, I shall willingly grant him per~ to be passed over, and, having before n:.ission to go Home, in case he is.. al­ acted in a similar manner townrds Col­ lowed to do so by his creditors. To onel Davey, I consider him a very unfit Earl BathUrst the GOvernor reported per~mn to be any longer contimled an the misconduct of Mr. Younge and en· assistant sur,g"eon at the Medical Estab· closed iive papers, "from the perusal lishment of this eolonv. I have ae­ of which your Lordship will, I doubt cordineoly confirmed vol1r susponsion of not, eoneur with me in opinion ·that this officer from rank and pay, I shall A. S. Younge is no longer worthy o:t of course report the steps you and my· 1wlding a cOmmission in his Majesty 'e .self have taken to the Secretary of service. This, too, is not Mr. Younge's State by the first opportunity. In the first o:ffen~e, for he behaved about two meantime, however, it wiJI be necessary vears a.Q"o in a similar manner to Lieu· tlmt Assistant Surgeon Youne-o and his "t.enant-Govt'nor Davey, whose orders family should be r.ontinued to be vie­ ·he ·set at deflanee, and to whom he t,ua11Prl from the Kinj!'s Stores at Ho· wrote t.hose most insolent, insubordin­ hart. 'rown, until the plea!'lnre of H.R.H. ate letters for which he was put unde~ the Prince Re~cnt respecting- him ah::tll arrest and kept several months, but WaB Le made known in this countrv. On relea&ed on Mr. Judge Advocate Wylde the 18th November, the Lieittemmt· l!iving it as his opinion that A. S. Governor informed his chief that Mr. Younge Was not subjPct to military law. .<\.SBbtant Surgeon Younge and family Since· this charge was prepared a. copv w.er.e put upon the store under his Ex­ was sent to Mr. Younge, who has ad· ~ellenl'y 's outstanding orders, as a rlressel] to the Lieutenant-Governor ~ettJer, prior to his goinu to. Port (Sort>ll) a most insolent letter, which DAlrymple; anrl he also continued with i~ eonsidered unfit and un'worthy to be two Government m~n on a store on ae· . copied. count ot hiq inilnl.Q"enc>.fls: and th~se his The appointment of Edward Luttrell Honour had not altered or di.!tturbed. to be acting colonial surgeon at the Mr. Youn_Q"e having since the rec>.eipt of Derwent, in tl1e room of William Hop· :V:t:\Ur E·::reeHeney's ileeisions on his sua· lev, who had died on the 24th August, tte~sion addressed anather very inso· J 815, was dated from the following 1e:n.t ]P.tte:r to me, adds his HoD.onr, I day. In his despatch -of the 18th ~~tulned: a succeeding one unopeilec1: March, 1816, asking Earl Bathurst to ~ se.eond directed in a. feigned hand ·move the Prince Regent to eon-firm :the ~~a openf!d and ~tlso returned, but be· al?pointment Governor Macquarie pas- 884 lOme ,...adverse criticism upon Lut-. and infirmitiea, I beg leave therefore trell, whom he had promoted very re­ once more to recommend that he may luetant1y to the vacant post. Although be removed and placed on half pay, and lately I have been under the neoessity that Mr. Bowdan may be appointed in of appointing Senior Colonial Surg"eon his stead, as !urgeon at Hobatt Town. Luttre11 to act as Surgeon at the Der· In anothor despatch, date~ the· 12th went in the room of Mr. Hopley, de· Deeemh!:!t, 1817, the Govembr .reeuuer] ceased, from the want of a better qual­ to the subject. I much regret to. ~nd ified -person to fill the situation, writes that your Lord11hip has del)lined to, his Excellency, yet I am sorry to -add sanction the retirement of Surgeona that Mr. Luttrell is a very uqfit person Mountgarrett and Luttrell on halt pay to be any longer trusted with the care or pensions, as they are certainly both of administering meCUeal relief to th·~ Yery unfit for the situations of surgeon sick of any (f.escrlption; for, althoutzh at. Port Dalrymple and the Derwent ro• h<' is not deemed· deficient in profes· spectively, remark8 his Excelle~ey, l!':ional skUI, he is \rery unfeelin-'t and but althoUgh I &m perfectly ot this criminally inattentive to his patients, opinion, yet I !!!hall not take so heavy a added to which he ill extremely irrit· nsponsibi1i~Y on myself as to displace ablE! and violent in hb: temper and t.hem without thElm having some me~~l!l very infirm from dieripation. . In fact, of support assigned them. They are he is completely 8!J.perannuated a.s to hoth married men, with :tamilies1 and .turther ·service. Under ali these eir· have be.en long in the service, and, eumstances I stron~!y recommend that fl1though not respectable characters, I Mr. LuttreU should be entirely remov· ... onceive that some provision ehould bo cd from the civil medical establiAh· made for them in their declining years. ment_ of thia territory and placed on Mr. · Mountgarrett was obliged some half -pay, -or allowed such -pension or time ago to submit to the amputation annuity from the ColOnial Police Fund of one of his arms, .whieh renders him as . Your. Lordship may be pleased to altogether in'eapable of performing any order. Mr. Luttre11 i! advanced in Rurgicril operation of importance. Mr. years with a large family, and, al­ Luttrell is old and infirm and not in:­ though his services have not been JIUeb frequently disqu~lifled for performing a! to entitle him to any strong mark his duties as surgeon, from dissipation of favour, :vet in consideration of his and consequent ill-health. Under these aJZe and in-firmities, as well a& in con­ circumstances. I cannot but adhere to sideration of his having a large fam· the opinion· that Messrs. Mountgarrett ily to support it would be rather hard Dnd Luttrell should be removed as soon ll.pol'. him to remove him from hi& pres·· as possible from their respective sit.u- ent situation without ma.king some pro­ n tions, and with this view I again takf! Tision from Government for his tm-p· the liberty to recommend them to your "J:'Ort. The Minister paicl no h11ed then Lordship's lavounble and huma]le'eon­ to the ·advice of the Governor. but on sideration for halt pay or small pen· tl\.e 30th January, 1817, he approved of r;ionl!l, which pensions, if your Lord­ tl\e appointment conferred· upon th"' ,old flhip should deem it expedient, might iMtor, whose salary was' £182/10/0, be pi'tid from the Colonial Funds with with the allowances suitable to his ~mt including them in the par1iamen­ '!ltatfon. tnry estimates. Doetorl!l Bromley and On the 28th November, 1817, the Bowdan, who lately arrived here as­ &ovemor again lrrOUJ!'ht the inc!lpneity surgeon . superintendents in conviet @$· Snrj!'eon Luttrell hefore F.nrl llath­ ships, declare they .fully e:zpect to 'ltl!Stl. As your Lorif!!.hiri hRd m:t.de no succeed Messrl!!l. Yountgarrett and Lut· 'ftlf~J,Vi:sion for Mr. Luttre1I by either trell'as surgeon!!! at-Port Dalrymple and &d! i:n removing 'bim. writes his Excel· Secretary of' State '8 Office before they l~n'l!y, butt altboutrh t am still decided· left ll1ngland, and "thieh expectations '' 't(y· o,f· opin-i'on that he is totally unfit I have not been enabled to real~e,... · J :tor t:He proper discharge of the dUties however mueh I have wil!lhed .to beneM of· sn·rgeon, owing to his advaneed agf! by· their profel!lsi.onal skill; t.nd they are \ I going Home much disappointed. ::Sut, plaeed on half pay. He trusted that as yonr lordship left it entirely option­ his Lordship wOuld approve of the two a! with me. to remove Messrs. Mount· a_~:.pointments, and then submit them garrett and Luttrell, I could not re-­ for his Majesty's con-firmation, all of concile it to my own !lense of justice: which was done in due course~ where to do 110 unless I!IOnlC provision should upon the General Ho~~~pital was installed be made for them by Government. DS early as pos!dble in the new brick By hill third despatch on the unpleas­ · building, overlooking Wapping, and ant subject the Governor ·achieved hiE: ready for occupation since M&rch, 1820. humane purpose of securing an allow­ Surgeon Edward Luttrell, wi~h his ance for the o1tl surgeons. Referring fami-ly, left Sydney on the brig Emu to the ,renewed representation whicJ: in January, 1816, under orders from you have made in your despatch as to Governor Macquarie to assume charge the deplorable situnUon of the colon­ of the medical department at the Der­ ial surgeons, Messrs. Mountgarrett and went Settlement, where, shortly after J.JuttrelJ, if' left without any provision his arrival, he wa-s called in to establish for their maintena.nee, .replica Earl au imputation of murder by a man Bathurst, I have to acquaint you that named Clarke, who was duty committed Ir.R.H. the Prince Regent has been for trial at Sydney. In August an graciously pleased to approve of your intimation was received that the dep­ allowing to them, on thefr removal, uty judge advocate required Dr. Lut­ from the Colonia] Funds equal to the trell.' Mr. Gordon, and other witnesses halt pay of their respective situations. at the trial. Clarke was acquitted, You will understand, however, that and Colonial Surgeon Luttre11 ~as or­ they are not to receive any advantage dered to resume his duty at Hobart from the colony beyond their al1ow­ Town, where he arrived on board the :mce excepting only such a moderate Kangaroo ill December, 1816. Nearly grant of land as you may (it they pOR­ a year later, Luttrell's presence was sess the means and dispoE"itiOn to cui~ required at Sydney, as his evidence tivate ~and) be willing to assign to was desired. According to a despatch them. This news was moat pli:lasiitg to by Lieutenant-Governor Sorell, dated GOvernor Macquarie. I am very happy 13th September, i817, Mr. Luttrell WWI t(l hear that your Lordship has procur­ obliged to go up to Sydney on Mr ed some respectable surgeons for the Drummond's trial, and his Honour beg­ colony~ as they are very much wanted, ged to ree,ommend- to his Excellency's writls his Excellency on the 24th consideration some allowance to enable Mar('h, 181~, more especia1ly at tl1e the witness to meet his expenses there settlements in Van Diem en's Land to But in a memorial on this subject, pre· repla,ce Sur,~teons Mountgarrett and pared at Parramat.ta on the 24th No· Luttrell, both of whom have become al­ Yember, Luttrell himself says that jn most perfectly useless from their ages October last l1e was again ordered to tmd infirmiti~s. I am, therefore, very repair to Sydne:v to ~ive evidence be­ j!)ad to :tJnd that your Lordship has fore the Criminal Court then assembled bf'en kindly plea11ed to approve of those in a ease of child murder charged two officE"rs receiving half pay as soon a_g-ai.nst Liley McAiler and others. ~he a~t. relieved by surgeons from Rome. trial is over, represents the memonal­ For nearly two years longer the Gov­ ist, and he sti:ll continues absent from e-rnor was eompel7ed by hard necessity his familv and home. Under all the to pnt np with an inept' medical staff heavy e:q)enses ineurred, and the ~ri~Y­ in Van Diem en's Land. lAnd no doubt. ous barrlships suffered by memormhst, hP. was g'rateful t_o Providence when added the discomfort nat.t~ra1ly atten­ f)JI the 7th :Febru~ry, 1821, he found dant on a separation from his family J..hnsfU in the ha;ppy p01dtion of bein{' at his advanced period of life, he is aUo to tell Earl Rt\thurst that "he had induced from a full consciousness of ~'T'-!'ointed Mr. Robert Espie and Mr. Excelle~cy's humane disposition anrl 'J'h&nttllll Seott,_ both of the Ro-ya] Na.v~·. the nature of his case, most respect­ 1'& "be tmr~n at P(')rt Dalrymple and fully to solicit that your Excellency ft-h- Derwent respectively, in the room will be pleased to allow him some re­ .t Ml'. l:llouDitptrrett and· Mr. Luttren muneration, in whatever way it m~y ..... to meet ,.our !!lrvell....,-. 0, the 4th September, .,.a bf«bl7 • ..,.. the loth January, 1818, Governor -Mac­ mend the greo,t forbearance with which quarle replied to Lieutena~t-Governor you acted towards that wretched old Sorell's recommendation on behalf of man, and which he so little merited at Dr. Luttrell's claim for some extra a.l ·your bandl!l. He is very factious, se, lowanee to defray his expenses incur· ditious, and unprincipled fellow, an.d red on several trips thither as an evi­ totally unWorthy of all fa.vour, exeept· dence. I have tq inform you, writes ing on account- of his age and luge his Excellency, that. by a reCent regula­ family. He will now, however, very• tion, suggested to the by the judge ad· soon be superl!le,ded and placed on half vocate, gentlemen evidences for V.D. pay. Land are allowed 11 per diem, and ver­ On the 4th February, 1817, the mem~­ sons_ of inferior rank 5/ per diem to bers of Mr .Luttrell's fa.mily were put defray expenses. This being considered on the King's Store as settlers for.·l& a liberal allowance, of eoufse Dr. Lut­ months only, reported A. C. G. Brough. trell _cannot be considered as entitled ton to the Governor. ' In respeet. to· to any further remuneration. Dr. Luttrell's famUy, writel!l the Gov• According to the summary of a de· f!rnor on the 8th Ma.r'ch, it never was spateh from the Lieutennnt·GI)vernor lutcnded by me that they should ba dated the 15th July, 1817. anil not Yictualled longe-r than 18 months Rl!ll!let-­ available, Dr. Luttrell's inflrffi health Jers; and whenever that period has ex­ makes him uselt>~'~S. Atznin on the pired, -they must n-11 be struck off ex-·· 18th November, 1818. when TlronoqinJ! <·ept!n~ himself. The surgeon's rate of· an increase of salary for Assistant Sur­ l'UY Rt this time it may be pointed ou-t. (!'COn Hamilton, his Honour says that wfts 10/ a day. • The question ot. the :Mr. Luttrell ,.s advanced· a2e allciws Mm ,·ictualling- his servants was raised in Httle activity. In Au2ust. 1819, his Au~tust, 1819. It nptJea.rs on a refer­ ~onduct wa!t very displeAsing to the f'nee to the Governor·h)-eh.iefs commu· Lieutenant-Governor. I beg- leave to · nications of December, 1815, and Janu· submit eo'Pies of napers, connected with r•r_v, 1816, writes the secretary on the. the conduct of Mr. Surg-eon Luttrell, 5th, that three Government men were writes his Honour to the Governor on nrdcrf!O to be victualled you from the the lHh. not with a view of now bring­ Ring's Storf'S for one year, and it also ·inJ! R!lAinst him anv charge, as I have n.ppears from· the storekeeper's ,note, de('lared myself satisfietl. with the steps l1erewlth enclosed tbot a man named taken; nor is it rnv wish in snhmHtinO' Ha11 l1as been victualled as your ser­ t.hese lloeuments to affect Mr. Ttutirell vant from t11e 28th s·eptember to the in anv wnv, ~onsiOering- his time ot' nresent time completing on the 28th life, fAmily, etr., and the "Prospect of September n~xt a 11eriod of three years liis earlv rethPmPnt. Rut the 1JrOne· which include all the indulgences grder­ ness wliich P:"{i>!l_s in some nersons hPrc cd vou of which the Lieutenant-Gov­ to advance fnlse fl('f'llo::ation"', to whif'h er-nOr is at present aware. 'Rut, if r e.annot heln thinking Mr. TJnttrell von are able to throw any additional must in this instanM have lent llimself Ji~ht on the subject, as soon as you f'.c.ne(}htllv ns thP time e.hosen for this shall have expl:ained the same his Ito~· alle2ation wag t11e moment when t.b~ our will be ready to attend to it. eao.l was unusually l":rowded, and whf!n On the 18th, additional light was the Be,neh of Ma.e:istrates were con· thrown on the situation, when the Lieu­ P-ertinl! with me 1'1 new code Of re(!'ula· tenant-Governo-r l1ad to acknowledge lat.i.ons tor the nrison, th~ knowled~e the reeei'Pt of Mr. Surgeon Luttrell"s of the machinntions of ·th<>~e -per~on~ letter of that date. Uponthe expl::uHt­ · Mtn~}f! mfl t.o nlae~ the papers before tion therein given respecting Hall, v.our- Ex<'.ellcn('.y. The replv frnm whoM situation the Lieutenan·Gover; Svdl\ey ~iY('S ~m ·imlieht into the char· nor kne'v nothing of, the Crown ser· aeter- of' the old Sllt'lleon. I have tJ6· vant Johnson, who was applied for by 1'-used the -pro('eedings and correspon­ Mr. I.uttrell would be assigned to him clenee y-ou sent me in regard to Aetingo on the Store on aeeount of his indul· Surgeon Luttrell, writes the Governor genees. · -,..t.., "QJ ~ Par-r"-mo,tta to his subordinate on In August of 1819, the Lieutena.nt- Governor had- the satisfaeUon of bowl­ and· -whieh the Lientena.nt-Goveraor ing out Surgeon Luttrell in a deliber· will put dowJ,J.. whenever they come be·

ate falsehood, and publishing his cen· fore bim1 or in whatever quarter they sure on the doctor's style of eorrespon· appear. The Lieutenant-Governor has deuec, which is not extant. The Lien· now to signify to Mr. Luttrell his com· tenant-Governor, writes his Honour on mand to attend at Government House the 4th August, has to acknowledge to-morr"w at 12 o'clock, when he shall

the receipt of a letter from Mr. Sur­ hear read1 iu the presence of.- the dep· geon Luttrell of yesterday's date, re­ uty judge advocate and the magistrates ceived in the evening, in which he de­ of the settlement, their report and that sires to retract the statement advanced of the medical officers above alluded ln his prior letter of yesterday, ad­ to, and his own letter of recantation dressed to the Lieutenant-GoVernor's of his statements, and when .the Lieu· secretary, respecting the 11ealth and tenant-Governor will state his senti,· cleanliness of the gaol as affording him n1ents upon the whole case. an excuse for his not duly visiting a Edward Lutt-rell, comments Dr. Wa~· sick prisoner therein confined. The son, in avery welcome note, had been Lieutenant-Governor has since received a surgeon in .private practice in tha _ the reports of the magistrates and med• county of Rent, England, before he ob· ical o:tricers, who, according to their tained Lord Hobart's permission in instructions (as communicated to Mr. 1803 to -procee.d to New South Wales as Luttrel1 by the Lieutenant-Governor's a settler. He arrived at Port Jaek­ secretary) inspected the gaol yester­ son in June, 1804~ and received a grant· day in ord~r to ascertain the valirlit~' of 600 acres. In June, 1805, he 1\'&s of the statements made by him; and tht' appointed acting assistant colonial reports of , both, pronounce Mr. Lut­ surgeon on that establishment doing. trell 's statements to have been wholly duty at Parramatta and Sydney. In. without foundation. If the matter the beginning of the year 1807 he re. now in question were only that MT. signerl 1lis ·appointment and ~oin~d Surgeon Luttrell had made certain B:.M.S. ,Porpoise as surgeon, servmg m statements, dcc1a_red unfounded on in­ tlint ship until November, 1808. In vestigation by the magistrates and· Febrn:1ry, 1809, he was re-app?inted an medical officers present, and acknon·­ assistant surgeon on the colon_1al estab­ Je{\(.ed to be unfounded by himself, lishment by J.. ieutenant-Go':ernor Pat­ as a justification for not l1aving per­ ('rson. Governor Macquar1e reported fOl'm.ed his duty in visiting the sick, adYersely on llim in 1813, and describ­ the Lieutenant-Governor would be sat­ ed him as u sordirl and unfeeling." isfied, in consideration of Mr. Lut­ In Januarv, 1810, :Uncquarie appointed trell's ·time of life, to leave it as it him to dlltv a.t Robart Town; but-, in stands, upon the direct contradiction reporting ihe appointment to Earl of the magistrates· and medical officers Bathurst he recommended his removal ft~d Mr. Luttrel1 's own recantation. from th~ medical establishment. It But other constructions render it an was not until five vears later that he ~mperative duty upon the Lieutenant· was retired on half jmy. His descend­ Q(\\'~l'J:I.Or to mark more forcibly his :lnts lay claim to the Earl of Cork ~se of the style of Jetter addressed thJ.ough. him. To that editorial note by Mr. Luttrell to his secretary. The it m:1v b(> arldrd that in the Hobart ~eutenant-Governor is well assured Town· G.nette of the 21st January,. that in making a false report· cif the 1821 there appeared an official order stnte of the gaol and prisoners therein ann~uncing the appointment of Dr, at this time, though the defence of James Scott, surgeon in the Royal Ms o.wn conduct from th13 imputation, Na,·y, to act as surgeon in the settle­ ~ ~E\glect might hlnre been a part oh·­ ment on the Derwent, in room of Act- (Ject Mr. Luttrell's more immedia-te -ino- Surgeon Edward Luttre1I, now motive was that of exhibiting an in­ pl~ccd on half pay until his Majesty,'s ~le.u~ and. unbec?ming reply. in cim· pie asure shl\Il be made known. The bv~~tt_on w1th or m co.ntinuationof the s:tlary of M:r. Surgeon Scott, eontinues :i~~tQJ.e~~,~~ and iJisubordination of whicl the order, win ecimm6llce from the W.'~ i_n_stances ha~e occurred heft, day o_.( ll:is recei~ing eharge at-' the ll:obart Town hospital The half poy 11 an impassable gulf between "-• ant! ot Mr. Luttrell will also commence the possessions to which he had an in· from that date. :Mr. Luttrell's half disputable moral- right." It is under· 1 pay, namely 5/ per diem is to be paid stood that the title has become extinct, from the Police Fund ~f V.D. Land.. and the estates are, or were, held by the In the same issue of the Gazette, the Court of Challeery. In penning this arrival of Surgeon Scott in the ship biography, Mr. Betts had forgotten for Caledonia was notified, and he was the moment that Dr. Bedford did not ordered to take char~e of the hospital come to Tasmania until the end of Jan- from Saturday the 20th January, on uary, 1823. · which day his _pay will commence. Tlte historiea1 record is that Edward In addition to hls salary, Edward Lut.· Luttrell euJi;!!"fl.h?il from Engla-nd with trelJ had enjoyed a barrack allowance a fantil,~, :H'eo"r:~ing- to a despatch from of 8/ per week, and he occupied a Under-sc~''"h... ,. 8p;liv.1.n to Governor house in Liverpool Street, probably op· King. •_r·,;, . .-~('··n:!f(•lt wr~_fi dnted at posite the hospitaJ. He died at 1Iis DoW11£uq :.:~·,·pd nn t 1ll' 30th. November, residence, in Bridge Street, on the 180~, nll. tlfth vol­

lOth June, 1824, aged 67 years1 and muc of t~:t1 Hh:tor-ie<~ 1 R-ecords of New was buried in St. David's Cemeterv South W.~les. Amow~.o:;t the persons on the 17th June. His widow applied who 31'\' :1ho1d· to proceed to New South to Lieutenant-Governor Arthur· for a "rn!es aar the n>o.st favourable footinz as settlen as to give him any concern as to the in th~ colonv. A~ Mr. Llittrell has a probabi1ities of succe's!'lion. He mar­ Yel','" ]al'{!"f' fftmi!y_' and ·as he. wiJl, With ried soon after lds arrival in the col­ the p:-0PP1"t-:v lu~ Po~ses~cs, be enabled ony, the ceremony ,being performed by to c>.JJ1tiYatt' lli" b.1Hl or to raise st-oek the Rev. Dr. Bedford, colonial chap­ upon it with ~P'Nlter faeility than lain. Several _children were born, of mOst of tlw Rf'~~l<'r<: who have preceded whom Edward was the eMest. At bim, jt is Lord Hobart's de~ire that the grant to he made to him be not !~:tteise~fdm:rr~;~e e~;n!~1I h~:t~~~~::; Jess tl1r1D 400 acres. and the grant to of births and deaths were very looseJv Mr. "Rilev not Jess than 150 acres. It kept, Dr. Luttrell either did not ob­ is also Lord Hobart's intention. that, tain a mn.rriaJ!"e certitlcate, or, -if one in the eYerit- o:f a vaeaney occurring in were issued, fallerl to preserve it. th(' medical department, Mr. Luttrell Some years after Dr. Luttrell and his should succeed to it in preference to wtfe, with an witnesses tothe marriage any person who may casually have ar­ had pnssed away, and the elder of rived in the colony; and should any their offsprings were ver$!'ing on middle opportunitv present itself of employ­ age, it was discovered tlmt a1J whose ing Mr. Riley in any civil capacity, his lives had interposed between the doc­ Lordship desires that I will recommend tor and accession to the title with its him with tha"t view; but it is right for­ estates had been removed by death. you to be apprized that a gentleman

Edward,_ the eldest sou1 went to 'Enj?· will proceed by the next ship!!! that may land only to find that absence of ali sail for the colony to succeed to the direct and corroborative evidenCe of his vaeancy in the eo~mi~sariat. legltlmacy prevented what was termed ·In April, 1827, a solicit-or named Row- ~ands landed at Hunter's !tsland ll,_nd sons who aupposed Van Diemen 's Lan4 soon a report was in circulation' that could not possess -a Lord, we extract this member of the Devil's Brigade the following from the Literary J onr­ h~~ cg.me ont; in the good ship Tiger, na I of 1821 :-"Died on the 25th ult., Widl mdructtons from. a solicitor in iu Bnmton Street, the Right Ron. Hen· Enrr'nnd to r..ar's Rgo: but as third on the list, those 'preceding him the kinship of Dr. Luttre11 does not being· the Ma.rquis of Drogheda and anvear to have been then known, th<' Earl Harcourt. He is· succeeded in title has been considered extinct tiJJ his -titles by his only brother, John late1v. Dr. Luttrefl having dieil since Luttrell Olmius. His Lordship came . LOrd Carhampton. J.frs. Luttrell must to his titles on the death of his father he entitled to Rll thP arrPRrs of thP. in 1787. Creations of the tirst noble· fortune, accumltlatecl hf'tWPen Htf' fll'lt­ man, thf' father of the deceased.­ iods of the death of his lm·cl!'!'hirl 11.nil baron, 1'768; viscount, 1781; earl, 1785. that of the rloctQr: besiiles bP-inQ' in It appears that the before-named John pos~ession.. unknowlnc-l:v. of the title of Luttrell Olmius (who was cousin to Dr. !t countess. The title a nil fortune now Edward Luttrell) died in 1825, aged ilescend, as we undcrst:md. to the do~­ 84, leaving iSsne only a daughter, who. with the mother !Jady 01mius, are still ·.,• tor'R eMest son. Mr. Alfreil T.,nftri:'Tl, of the Black Brush: who, we beliPve, is in alive. Mr. Alfred LuttreU goes homo conMOUf'nCe about to PTOCf'Pfl to -Ell!!· by the Admiral Cockburn for the pur­ Tnnd in order t.o RPttlP, his affairs: b11t. pose of arranging his .affairs.. His like a trne ('olonis:t. THis exnrNuleil hi!'~ titJe seems yery clear, there being only determination to return, title :t'ortunP a younger brother of his father who nnd all. to lais family and adoptcfl ca·n possibly set up a claim. lan.t_-Ta!lmania. Under the caption of The -Earl of Snme time sin('._e. remarks the Colon· Carhampton, Androw Bent repr_inted in ial Timf'!'f of the lOth Aurrnst.. 1827, we his Colonial Advocate of the 1st April, notieefl that Mr. A Jf. Imtt.r€111, the eltl­ 1828, a paragraph which ho had Seen el'!t son of the late Dr. Eilwarr1 Luttrell in the London Morning Herald of the C'olonfa:J Snr,Q"POn of this colony, hail 13th Octoberl 1827. From an Austral­ suceeeifP.rl to the titJes Rnd estate of the ian paper called the Colonial _Times, Earl of Carhampt;,n. Snme doubts hav­ runs'this paragraph, we copied into the ln~ been expressed in the eoJonv as to Morning Herald of Tuesday last, a the Identity of the Mr. Luttrell by,per· statement _mentioning that .Mr. AlfreQ Luttrell, an inhabitant ol New South persons as may be desirous of sending Wales, hnd sUcceeded to the titles and letters to England may leave them at estate'! of the Earl of Oarhampton, de· the Lieutenant-Governor's office the ceased; but that noble lord lms 8ince whole of next week. In the "Hobart called at our office nnd assured us that Town Ga:;:ette" of the 16th NoveDt· instead of having made his exit fro~ her, 1816, .it was notified that a letter this world three years ago, he is in bag is now open for the reception of good health, and 1ike1y to surVive an· letters for the brig Spring, for Eng· other three years to the discomfort of land, which will saiL on· or about the Mr. Alfred Luttre]J of New South 1st March next. The postmaster, it Wales and other expectants of his peer· was explained, gives this early notice ri.ge and estates, and the arrears sup· that the public may have an oppor­ posed- to ha.ve accumulated during his tunity of corresponding with their fictit)ously·propogated demise. His friends in Europe. Letters were then Lordship looks upon this party as some lying at the post·office for_ Mrs. Mary swindler, who wishes to raise the wi'nd Ram, Mr. W. T. Roberts, Ann Wilsoil, by T?cans of these misrepresentations. and Zenophian Hearn Bashan. This W1th reference to the foregoing par· noW!cntion was signed by James Wil·· agraph~ remarks the Colonial Advocate son as postmaster. In 1817-8 the post· we are authorised to state that a miS: master was James MitcheJI, who mar· understanding of the circumstances ried a daughter of Aron DaviCs, of gave rise to the statement, condemned X orfolk IsHtnd, whenc~ he came to in such gentlemn.nlv terms in the Lon· t 11e Derwent and conducted a store in don Morning- I!err!Id. Letters have :\laC".quarin Street, close to A'rgyl8 be.en received by the late arrivnls from Street. On the 4th May, 1822, James En.~t1and by Which it appearg tllat. Mr. 1!Hehell was charg-eit with assaulting John Thomas and Mr. John LuttreJJ. nnd bcatin~ his wife. and ordered to solicitors, the latter gentleman uncle- to find securities to ke€p the peace for Mr. Alfred Luttre1J of Van Dil:'lmcn 's three months. himself in £40 and two Land, Jmve jointly, in cons~quence of surcti€'s of £20 each. Bonwick re· the case having been misstated in the <'Ords thnt a second notice of the brijZ colonial papers. sent out a power of at· F;p:ring- occurs in the "Gazette" of torney (t.hrou.~th the house of Mef:srs. the lOth January, 1818. The brig Kemp & Co.) to Mr. Alfred' Luttreii for Pprin~~ affording- a desirable opportun· si_gnature, authorising them to prose· ji. v for -tl1ose wllO wish to write to cute on his behalf nnv claim which h(> ti~dr friend!! in Europe, it begius, the may have, or he supnosed to have, to ]")~lh'laster respectfully informs the the property df'!'lcendin~ from the es· Jlll'tl,,c that a mai.lbag is open for the tate of the Jiltc Baron Irnham, which is 1·e~·cption of lettt:'l's, vnd .wm continue the property in. 'luest.ion: but Mr. Lut­ so uJlt'J the eve of her clepartme. In trell. instead o1 exeC',utina this docu­ t.he same' month Mr. Mitche11 inform· ment, proceeds t.o England himself in Pll tb{' unblio~ of his removnl from his thP Merhvay. · hou~f' in. Mar-quariP Street to the house The first mail for Eng-land wns made­ lHC,·iou"'J_:r oe('upiecl by Mr. Robley, in up at Hobart· Towrl' in the middle of Collins Street, where he requested that Deeemh(>r, 180!'), :lf'COrding t.o the G11.r· aJl pl'rwms mi~ht in future send and rison and Order Rook of I.ieutennn.t­ call for their Jetters. Postmen as­ Govf'l'nor Collins, which is nreserverl at sumed a unifo.rm in August. 1821, and tlle Mitchell t.ibrarv in SvdnC'V, instcail an alphabetleaJ list of unclaimed let· of bein[! in the nr~Mvefl· of Tasmnnia. ters was proposed lly ,Postmaster J. Ry a uenernl order issuf''l on tlH• 1 ..ft.l, T. Comc~tt in January, 1823. The DPeemher ofthat year, it was notifif'd "Couri~r" in 1828 sugge'sted an im· that sul".h of tlH'Ise who mnv be desirous proved mode of carriage, namely, by of '!l'endinl!' Jeffers to EnJ!'land may a one·horse chaise, with relays of leave them with t.he Lieutenant·Gov· IJOrseH. . ~mor's eJerk until Wednesdav evehinQ' In the primitive days, writes James next. The next recorded order on this Bonwick, ·who conducted a :first-elas.'i snb.ieet was issued on the 19th July school at Hobart in the forties of last 1806, when it was announced that sueh eentul'y1 it was the custom to go on hNn:ci vessel! to- obtnin letters. This of every Aheet izl S/6, and large paper gu"Ve rise to much disorder, and. induc­ is ..f..hP.rged no more than small. The ed Li\)utenant-Gove1nor. ColHns to es­ mind of the .fretting exile must have tabll.s1t (.he fll'st post office in Van Dio· been dishacted on tho 18th November, men's Lau(l The· order is dated 25th 1812, when he wrote to his wife fo't .A rril, 1809, and is directed from the second time about the enor:r:n:ons 1 1 ' Headquarter«.' After the preamble -ta-x: on his correspondence.' ~our last ahont improper visits to sMps, there remittances were dated in November. ~s t~!is arrangement made. On the ar­ T1e writes f1·om London, ~nd were tor~ :-h·aJ or any vesse1, Mr. Nichols (naval warded from Rio l:'le Janeiro, and ~~me· off!<:(~rj or any person properly auth· to the enormous sum of £9/10/. E-Ven. ori!"r:;l by him is tO repair on board, those that were brought by Captain an<1 b re(}ulrc t-hat all _letter11 and Campbell and put into· the post offie(t p::r.re:el~