Further consideration of Napoleon's purposes. What Australia owes to British sea power. Influence of the Napoleonic wars. Fresh points relative to Napoleon's designs. Absence of evidence. Consequences of suspicions of French intentions. Promotion of settlement in Tasmania. Tardy occupation of Port Phillip. The Swan River Settlement. The Westernport scheme. Lord John Russell's claim of "the Whole" of Australia for the British. The designs of Napoleon III. Australia the nursling of sea power. BIBLIOGRAPHY. INDEX. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS. LE GEOGRAPHE AND LE NATURALISTE. From the drawing in Freycinet's Atlas of 1807. MAP OF NEW HOLLAND (AUSTRALIA). From Freycinet's Atlas of 1807. ADMIRALTY CHART OF ENTRANCE TO PORT PHILLIP. TRACK CHART OF LE GEOGRAPHE. From Freycinet's Atlas of 1812. MAP OF TERRE NAPOLEON. From Freycinet's Atlas of 1807. FRENCHMAN'S ROCK, KANGAROO ISLAND. From a photograph by Mr. Alfred Searcy, Harbourmaster, South Australia. GENERAL CHARLES DECAEN. After the portrait in the Library at Caen. CAPTAIN NICOLAS BAUDIN. From an engraving. FRANCOIS PERON. From the drawing by Lesueur. TITLE-PAGE OF FREYCINET'S ATLAS OF CHARTS, 1812. COMPARATIVE CHRONOLOGY. 1602. Abel Tasman born. 1603. Death of Queen Elizabeth. 1606. Voyage of Quiros; finding and naming of Austrialia del Espiritu Santo. 1606. First charter to the Virginia Company. 1620. Pilgrim Fathers found colony of New Plymouth. 1642. Tasman's first voyage; discovery of Tasmania. 1643. Death of Louis XIII. 1644. Tasman's second voyage; exploration of northern Australia. 1649. Execution of Charles I. 1652. Birth of William Dampier. 1655. English conquest of Jamaica. 1658. Death of Oliver Cromwell. 1659. Death of Tasman. 1682. Penn founds Pennsylvania. 1683. The French found Louisiana. 1686 to 1688. Dampier's voyage in the Cygnet; anchorage in Cygnet Bay, Western Australia. 1688. Fall of the Stuart dynasty; accession of William of Orange. 1699. Dampier's voyage in the Roebuck; anchorage in Sharks Bay. 1714. Death of Queen Anne. 1728. Birth of James Cook. 1756. Birth of Nicolas Baudin. De Brosses publishes his Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes. 1759. Wolfe captures Quebec. 1765. Watt's invention of the steam-engine. 1766. Bougainville's voyage to the South Seas. 1768 to 1770. Cook's voyage in the Endeavour; discovery of Botany Bay, Port Jackson, and eastern Australia. 1769. Charles Decaen born. 1769. Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte. 1771. Marion-Dufresne's voyage to Tasmania and New Zealand. 1773. Boston tea riots. 1774. Matthew Flinders born. 1774. Meeting of first American Congress. 1775. Francois Peron born. 1776. Declaration of Independence. 1778 to 1779. Cook's third voyage and death. 1778. Death of Chatham. 1785 to 1788. Voyage of La Perouse; call at Port Jackson. 1788. Founding of New South Wales. 1789. Mutiny of the Bounty. 1789. Washington elected first President of United States. Fall of the Bastille.