This despatch from Governor Gipps to Lord Glenelg reports on the findings of an enquiry into a violent conflict between Major Nunn and the mounted police and a group of Aboriginal people, the reasons for Governor Gipps delaying a notice about the protection of Aboriginal people and the steps taken to establish the Border Police. The despatch encloses minutes from the Executive Council about Major Nunn.This is a transcript of the despatch and its enclosures.

Despatch from Governor Gipps to Lord Glenelg dated 22 July 1839, in Historical Records of Australia Series 1, vol. 20, (February 1839 - September 1840), 243-259

As the colony continued to expand, Britain instructed NSW Governors that the law should protect Aboriginal people. This often did not happen. The prosecution and execution of the seven men responsible for the Myall Creek massacre was an exception, and happened partly because some white colonists were prepared to give...