Should necessity warrant it, an Admiralty court, of which Lieutenant Governor Ross is judge, can also be summoned, for the trial of offences committed on the high seas.
From being unwilling to break the thread of my narrative, I omitted to note in its proper place the sailing of the 'Supply', Lieut.

Ball, on the 15th of the month, for Norfolk Island, which the Governor had instructions from the ministry to take possession of.Lieut.King of the Sirius was sent as superintendent and commandant of this place, and carried with him a surgeon, a midshipman, a sawyer, a weaver, two marines, and sixteen convicts, of whom six were women.

He was also supplied with a certain number of live animals to stock the island, besides garden seeds, grain, and other requisites..