A peace was concluded in 1823 and on 17 July of that year John Rodolphus Kent of the Naval cutter "Mermaid" from New South Wales, while in the harbour, took 'the liberty of naming it (as it has not hitherto been named) "Port Oxley", in honour of the Surveyor General of the Colony' in fact John Oxley (1783/85?–1828).