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GOVERNOR BLIGH'S APPOINTMENT

Historical Records of  New South Wales, Vol. V, King 1803, 1804, 1805. Edited by F. M. Bladen, Lansdowne Slattery & Company, Mona Vale, N.S.W.,1979. pp. 455 - 456.

Viscount Castlereagh to Governor King, 13th July 1805.

 Downing-street,

Sir,

In conformity to your request, and to the assurance given to you by Lord Hobart in November, 1803, that a proper person should be selected to relieve you in your government, the King has been pleased to appoint Captain Bligh, of the royal Navy, as your successor.

Captain Bligh will be enabled to take his departure early in September, and I shall avail myself of the intermediate time to prepare such instructions as form a consideration of your dispatches may appear to be expedient for the future government of your colony.

I shall also reserve to the same opportunity the observations I may think necessary to make to you on the present state of the settlement; but I cannot withhold the expression of my satisfaction at the good order and tranquillity which you represent to prevail throughout your government. I approve of your having formed a settlement at the Coal River, and of your appointment of Lieutenant Menzies to superintend it with an allowance of five shillings per diem, which you are hereby authorized to issue.