You are, to place the said plant cabin, with the boxes of earth contained in it, under the charge and care of the naturalist and gardener, and to cause to be planted therein during the survey, such plants, trees, shrubs, etc., as they may think suitable for the Royal Gardens at Kew; and you are, as often as you return to Sydney Cove, to cause the said plants to be deposited in the governor’s garden and under his charge, there to remain until you sail for Europe:  And so soon as you shall be preparing to return home, you are to cause the small plant cabin to be removed from the sloop’s quarter deck, and the one brought out by the Porpoise (which is something larger), to be placed there in its stead.  In this last mentioned cabin the naturalist and gardener are to place the plants, trees, shrubs, etc., which may have been collected during the survey, in order to their being brought home for His Majesty; and you are, so soon as the sloop shall arrive at any port in England, to give notice of her arrival to His Majesty’s botanic gardener at Kew, and to transmit to him a list and state of the said plants etc., which the gardener employed under your orders is to furnish you with for that purpose.

Given under our hands the 22nd of June, 1801. 
(Signed),
ST. VINCENT. 
T. TRUBRIDGE. 
J. MARKHAM.

To
MATTHEW FLINDERS, Esq. 
Commander of His Majesty’s sloop
Investigator, at Spithead.

By command of their Lordships,
(Signed,)
EVAN NEPEAN.

The instructions were accompanied with the extract of a memoir from Mr. Dalrymple, respecting the winds and weather to be expected, principally upon the south coast of Terra Australis.  Also with the following PASSPORT from the French government.

LE PREMIER CONSUL DE LA REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE, sur le compte qui lui a ete rendu de la demande faite par le LORD HAWKESBURY au Citoyen Otto, commissaire du gouvernement Francais a Londres, d’un Passeport pour la corvette Investigator, dont le signalement est ci-apres, expediee par be gouvernement Anglais, sous le commandement du capitaine Matthew Flinders, pour un voyage de decouvertes dans la Mer Pacifique, ayant decide que ce passeport seroit accorde, et que cette expedition, dont l’objet est d’etendre les connoissances humaines, et d’assurer davantage les progres de la science nautique et de la geographie, trouveroit de la part du gouvernement Francais la surete et la protection necessaires.

LE MINISTRE DE LA MARINE ET DES COLONIES ordonne en consequence a tous les commandants des batiments de guerre de la Republique, a ses agens dans toutes les colonies Francaises, aux commandants des batiments porteurs do lettres de marque, et a tous a autres qu’il appartiendra, de laisser passer librement et sans empechement, ladite corvette Investigator, ses officiers, equipage, et effets, pendant la duree de leur voyage; de leur permettre d’aborder dans les differents