nal, the schooner
Cumberland, and the parole exacted on quitting Mauritius. A release from
the parole was transmitted in April 1812, after three applications; but
upon the other points it was answered, that "the vessel of captain
Flinders was at the Isle of France at the capitulation of that colony,
and returned in consequence to the power of the English government. With
respect to the journal of that navigator, as it did not make part of the
papers brought from the Isle of France by the prefect of that colony, a
demand has been made for it to the captain-general De Caen, who is with
the army. In default of an answer he will be again written to, and so
soon as it shall be remitted, my first object will be to send it." The
Cumberland had been seized in 1803, and the capitulation was made in
1810; in the interval, both vessel and stores, if not used, would be in
great part rotten; but I saw the Cumberland employed in the French
service, and believe that the stores were also. General De Caen, it
appeared, still kept the log book in his own hands; although, if
considered to be private property, it was undoubtedly mine, and if as a
public document it ought to have been given up at the capitulation, or at
least to have been deposited in the office of the marine minister. But
the captain-general had probably his reasons for not wishing even the
minister to see it; and up to this time, the commencement of 1814, he has
so far persevered against both public and private applications, that
neither the original nor a copy has been obtained.

APPENDIX I.

ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS BY WHICH THE LONGITUDES OF PLACES ON THE
EAST AND NORTH COASTS OF TERRA AUSTRALIS HAVE BEEN SETTLED.

In the Appendix to Vol. I. a statement was made of the circumstances
under which the observations for settling the longitudes of places on the
South Coast were taken; as also of the method used in the calculations,
and the corrections applied more than what is usual in the common
practice at sea. That statement is equally applicable to the following
tables for the East and North Coasts, and the explanation of their
different columns is the same; a reference therefore to the former
Appendix will render unnecessary any further remark on these heads.

The first observations on the East Coast were taken at Port Jackson, and
the results would naturally form the first table of this Appendix; but
these observations being so intimately connected with those o