CHAPTER III.

Proprietors indifferent to their engagements--Extent to which settlement was effected--Complaints of the People of nonfulfilment of engagements--Character of the Reply--The influence of the Proprietors with the Home Government--The Duke of Kent--Proposal in 1780 to name the Island New Ireland--The name adopted--Formation of Light Infantry and Volunteer Horse--Immigration of Highlanders--Memoir of General Fanning