"7th. Resolved--(Moved by R. Espie, Esq., seconded by J. Gordon, Esq.)--That the following fifteen gentlemen do form the committee for the purposes before resolved:-- E. Abbott, Esq. jun. T. Anstey, Esq. J. Archer, Esq. W. A. Bethune, Esq. F. Dawes, Esq. H. J. Emmett, Esq. J. Gordon, Esq. T. G. Gregson, Esq. S. Hood, Esq. A. W. H. Humphrey, Esq. A. F. Kemp, Esq. R. L. Murray, Esq. H. Ross, Esq. G. F. Read, Esq. J. Scott, Esq. "8th. Resolved--(Moved by J. Archer, Esq., seconded by T. Anstey, Esq.)--That these Resolutions, and a copy of the Address to his Majesty, be inserted three times in the _Hobart Town_ and _Sydney Gazettes_; and in the _Times_, _New Times_, _Morning Chronicle_, and _Courier_, London newspapers. "JOHN BEAMONT, _Provost Marshal, Chairman_. "The Provost Marshal having quitted the chair, and James Gordon, Esq. having been requested to take the same; "Resolved--(Moved by E. Abbott, Esq., junior, seconded by R. L. Murray, Esq.)--That the thanks of this meeting be given to John Beamont, Esq., our worthy Provost Marshal, for the readiness with which he has convened the present meeting, and for his able, upright, and impartial conduct in the chair. "JAMES GORDON, _Chairman_."] [Footnote 140: _Australia; with other Poems._ By T. K. Hervey, London, 1824.] HISTORY OF TASMANIA. FROM 1824 TO 1836. FROM 1824 TO 1836. SECTION I. George Arthur, Esq., fourth Lieutenant-governor of Van Diemen's Land, arrived in the _Adrian_, on the 12th May, 1824. Formerly superintendent of Honduras, he was extensively known as an officer of inflexible and energetic disposition: his administration had occasioned considerable debate, and was the subject of parliamentary and judicial enquiries. Honduras, an establishment on the American coast, was occupied by adventurers from Jamaica. At first interlopers, their presence was for a time unnoticed by the Spanish crown. A hundred years were passed in unavailing protests and opposition, when the court of Spain reluctantly recognised the location of the cutters of logwood within its undoubted territory. In 1814, Arthur was appointed superintendent by the Duke of Manchester; at the same time he received from General Fuller the government of the troops in the following words: "I do hereby constitute and appoint you, the said George Arthur, to command such of his Majesty's subjects as are now armed, or may hereafter arm for the defence of the settlers at the Bay of Honduras; you are, therefore, as commandant, to take upon you the care and charge accordingly." In virtue of these appointments he claimed both the military and civil command, until he quitted the settlement in 1822.