Colonial Events 1821

Sydney Gazette

1 December 1821

This forenoon in pursuance of the Government and General Orders of the 24th ult., the Commission of his Majesty appointing his Excellency Major General Sir Thomas Brisbane, K.C.B to be Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over the Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies, was read and published with all due solemnity in Hyde Park. Previous to its recital by the provost Marshall, his Excellency Major-General Macquarie audibly read a  farewell address to the inhabitants of the Colony. His Majesty's 48th regiment, under the command of Col. Erskine, Lieutenant Governor, and the various detachments, paraded the Park, and fired three vollies upon the conclusion of the ceremony, which was followed by a royal salute from Dawes' Battery, in honour of the occasion

At one o'clock his Excellency Sir Thomas Brisbane had the usual oaths administered to him at Government House, by the Honourable the Judge Advocate, in the presence of his Excellency Major - General Macquarie, Lieutenant Governor Erskine, the Honourable the Judge of the Supreme Court, the Clergy, the Magistrates, and other Civil and Military Officers of the Colony. Upon the termination of this ceremony, a salute of 19 guns was fired from Dawes' Battery.