BOOKS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS 215 “WELCOME NUGGET” chromolithographic broadside advertising for T.C.Williams Co. Virginia tobacco, c1870s 27 x 27cm $200–300 ❖ 216 NEW ZEALANDERS: The LONDON CHRONICLE - March 17 to 19, 1778. The lead article, covering more than a page is titled “Some farther Particulars of the DISPOSITION and MANNERS of the NEW ZEALANDERS. From the New Discoveries concerning the World and its Inhabitants. ” “ .....Their wardance consists of a great variety of violent motions, and hideous contortions of the limbs during which the countenance also performs its part. The tongue is frequently thrust out to an incredible length...nor is any thing neglected that can render the human shape frightful and deformed... ” $200–300 ❖ 217 AUSTRALIA & New Zealand IN ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS: 1779 - 1857 Jackson’s OXFORD Journal of April 3, 1779 carries a note about Captain Cook of the Adventure then supposed to be in Japan; the Liverpool Courier of Aug.3, 1831 carries a long article headed “Cannibalism in New Zealand” and another about the opening of “The New London Bridge”; the Daily News of Aug.15, 1846 provides coverage of the present agricultural, financial and industrial state of the colony; another, about the better governorship of New Zealand and another, about the trial of William Dobson, chief mate of the “Kestrel” in Port Philip, accused of murder; The Guardian of Feb.11, 1857 carries a long article headed “The Ministers and the Mark System” in which it is reported that “Sentences of transportation are to be abolished, and sentences of penal servitude substituted for the same periods... ” . (4 papers). $100–200 ❖ 218 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE June 23-25, 1789: This edition features a small and intriguing article about “the dispute between the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the new settlement at Botany Bay. ” (Governor Phillip, Lieutenant-Governor Ross, Major Bruce and the Adjutant General, David Collins are arguing about who is in charge!). Details are also provided of the corps that was being raised “for the defence of the colony” listing a total of 316 men.This information, together with the latest details of George Washington’s activities, came to the Chronicle via a letter from NewYork which had been carried from Halifax by theTankerville packet. $200–300 ❖ 219 BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE September 8-10, 1789: Includes extracts from a Letter from Portsmouth: “ ....Nine convicts from the hulks at Langston harbour, and 16 from the hulk lying off Weevil....were this day embarked on board his Majesty’s ship Guardian, bound to Port Jackson, Botany Bay. The Guardian will sail.....loaded with beds, clothing, and every other necessary which Commander Phillips did not take out. The 25 convicts now embarked are....chiefly house carpenters and blacksmiths. ” Sir Joseph Banks has also arranged for a special glazed vessel to be carried on board the ship “to bring home curious plants from the New Settlement... ” $300–400 ❖ 220 BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE September 10-12, 1789: Includes a short piece about a curious item “imported from Botany Bay...a leaf of very uncommon properties; the most extraordinary is, that when dried, even without being pulverised, it goes off on application of a match, with an explosion somewhat in the manner of gunpowder, the air is afterwards agreeably perfumed...... ” $100–150 ❖ 221 FIRST FLEET & BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE October 22-24, 1789: Includes a very detailed, full column description of the book about to be published, “Governor Phillip’s VOYAGE to BOTANY BAY. ” With a list of engravings and charts, a list of the booksellers who will be stocking the volume and the price, £1/11/6. This edition also carries a detailed article about the boxing match between Perrins and Johnson at Banbury: “ ... Sixty-two rounds of fair and hard fighting, which lasted exactly one hour and 15 minutes, determined the contest in favour of Johnson, who is now considered the Champion of England... ” There is also news of disorder in France, etc. $150–200 ❖ 222 BOTANY BAY: THE LONDON CHRONICLE Oct. 31 - Nov. 3, 1789: This edition includes a small entry regarding a group of three felons who had previously “rejected his Majesty’s [offer of] clemency on condition of being transported to Botany Bay” but who had since “thought [it] proper to accept. ” $200–250 ❖ 223 D’ARCY WENTWORTH: THE LONDON CHRONICLE Nov. 19-21 & 28-Dec. 1: The lengthy saga of Wentworth’s legal battle is covered in both these editions. There are also interesting articles from the Jamaica Royal Gazette “ ...There has not been any business done here these three days past, owing to the great Revolution in France, which has reached this place [St.Pierre, Martinique] in all its force... ”; from Warsaw “ ...The Polish regiments are said to have complained to the Commission of War that they do not receive their pay regularly. ”; and many others. (2 complete editions). $100–150 ❖ 224 BOUND FOR BOTANY BAY - THE WHITEHALL EVENING POST - 20 - 22 August 1789 and later editions An advertisement on the front page of the first edition calls for tenders to transport convicts to New South Wales and another report about the details of the contract; the 1 - 3 December 1789 edition reports the arrival at Plymouth of Captain Gilbert on the Neptune with convicts for Botany Bay; the 15 - 17 December edition reports on Sir Joseph Banks’ visit to the Discovery, then equipping at Deptford. (3). $200–250 ❖ 225 THE MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY - The WHITEHALL EVENING POST - September 19 - 22, 1789 to July 17 - 20, 1790. Four complete editions of this broadsheet newspaper each of which carries a news update from Lieutenant Bligh and the Bounty. In the first edition, The Bounty is reported to have reached the Society Islands; the edition of March 13 - 16 carries the first published report of an account of a mutiny on board the ship; the edition of 18 - 20 March carries a more detailed account of the mutiny and the 17 - 20 July edition carries a report of the Bounty at Tahiti. (4). $300–500 ❖ 226 BOTANY BAY & PORT JACKSON: THE LONDON CHRONICLE Feb. 5-8 & Nov. 15-17 , 1791: The first edition carries a short piece regarding Sir Charles Bunbury’s intention to report on the felon’s employment bill relative to the prisoners at Botany Bay and Port Jackson; the later edition carries a distressing letter from the Chaplain at Port Jackson regarding convict deaths on transport ships. (2 items). $200–300 ❖ 227 Lieutenant McCLUER VISITS THE PELEW ISLANDS (PALAU): THE LONDON CHRONICLE Sept. 1-3, 3-6 & 13-15, 1791: These editions carry extensive coverage of this visit. In August 1790, when he 36