speculations.  The arrivals will be confined to the harbour of Port Jackson; only mentioning in this place that of the two ships Le Boussole and L’Astrolabe, at Botany Bay, in January 1788, under the command of the ever-to-be-regretted and unfortunate M. de la Perouse, who followed in the path of our immortal circumnavigator, Captain Cook (with whose name every writer must be proud to adorn his page), and who, like him, has left his country, indeed the whole world, to lament his loss.

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Date of                         Date of   Whither
Names-of-Ships       Arrival  Whence  Cargo          Departure bound
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1788     [* See note at end of table]
His Majesty’s armed  25 Jan.   England                17 Apr.    Batavia
tender, Supply                                       1790
H.M. ship Sirius     26 —     —                      1 Oct.     C of G Hope
1788
Alexander, transport 26 —     —       Convicts
Scarborough          26 —     —        —
Charlotte            26 —     —        —
Lady Penrhyn         26 —     —        —
Friendship           26 —     —        —
Prince of Wales      26 —     —        —             —
Fishburn, store-ship 26 —     —       Provisions, etc
Golden Grove         26 —     —                      —
Borrowdale           26 —     —
1789
H.M. ship Sirius     6 May    CofG Hope              Lost at
Norfolk Is.
1790
Lady Juliana, trans. 3 Jun.    England Convicts
Justinian, storeship 20 —     —       Provisions, etc. 
Surprise, transport  26 —     —       Convicts
Neptune              28 —     —       —
Scarborough          28 —     —       —

H.M. a t.  Supply 19 Sep.  Batavia Provisions
Waaksamheyd
Dutch store-ship 17 Dec. — —
                     1791
Mary Arm, transport 9 July England Convicts
Matilda 1 Aug. — —
Atlantic 20 — —
Salamander 21 — —
William and Arm 28 — —
H.M.S.  Gorgon 21 Sep. — Stores/Provisions
Active, transport 26 — Convicts
Queen 26 Ireland —
Albemarle 13 Oct.  England —
Britannia 14 Oct.  England —
Admiral Barrington 16 — —
                     1792
Pitt 14 Feb. — —
Atlantic, store-ship 20 Jun.  Bengal Provisions
Britannia 26 Jul.  England — 1792
                                                     24 Oct.  C of G Hope
Royal Admiral 7 Oct. — Convicts
Philadelphia, brig 1 Nov.  Philad- Speculation
American elphia
Kitty, transport 18 England Convicts
Hope, American Dec.  RhodeIs Speculation
Chesterfield, whaler — CofG H To repair