AN ADDRESS
  TO THE
  INHABITANTS
  OF THE COLONIES,
  ESTABLISHED IN
  NEW SOUTH WALES
  AND
  NORFOLK ISLAND.

  BY
  THE REV. RICHARD JOHNSON, A.B.
  CHAPLAIN TO THE COLONIES


WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1792


PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR


  TO ALL INHABITANTS,
  AND ESPECIALLY TO THE
  UNHAPPY PRISONERS AND CONVICTS
  ESTABLISHED AT PORT JACKSON
  AND
  NORFOLK ISLAND,
  THIS AFFECTIONATE ADDRESS
  IS DEDICATED AND PRESENTED,
  BY THEIR VERY SINCERE
  AND SYMPATHIZING FRIEND,
  AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,
  IN THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST,
  RICHARD JOHNSON.


  TO THE BRITISH AND OTHER EUROPEAN INHABITANTS
  OF NEW SOUTH WALES AND NORFOLK ISLAND.
My Beloved,
I do not think it necessary to make an apology for putting this Addressinto your hands; or to enter into a long detail of the reasons whichinduced me to write it.
One reason may suffice. I find I cannot express my regard for you, sooften, or so fully, as I wish, in any other way.
On our first arrival in this distant part of the world, and for some timeafterwards, our numbers were comparatively small; and while they residednearly upon one spot, I could not only preach to them on the Lord's day,but also converse with them, and admonish them, more privately.
But since that period, we have gradually increased in number every year(notwithstanding the great mortality we have sometimes known) by themultitudes that have been sent hither after us. The colony already beginsto spread, and will probably spread more and more every year, both by newsettlements formed in different places under the crown, and by a number ofindividuals continually becoming settlers. Thus the extent of what I callmy parish, and consequently of my parochial duty, is enlarging daily. Onthe other hand, my health is not so good, nor my constitution so strong,as formerly. And therefore I feel it impracticable, and impossible for me,either to preach, or to converse with you so freely, as my inclination andaffection would prompt me to do.
I have therefore thought it might be proper for me, and I hope it mayprove useful to you, to write such an Address as I now present you with. Itransmitted a copy of it to my friends in England with a request, that ifthey approved of it, a sufficient number might be printed, and sent to me.Thus I am now able to leave with you a testimony of my affection for you,and of my sincere and heart-felt concern, for your BEST, because yourETERNAL, welfare. My times are in the hand of God. He, and He only, knowshow long I may live, or how long my present connection with you, maycontinue. I trust, however, that so long as the all-wise Disposer of allevents shall be pleased to spare my life, and strength; and governmentshall deem my services in this remote land, necessary, it will still be,as it has hitherto been, my most ardent desire, my uniform endeavour, andmy greatest pleasure, to promote your happiness. And when recalled to mynative country, or removed by my God to my eternal home, to receive thatcrown of righteousn                        
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