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dares that he can maintain himfelf without Affiftance from the Public
Stores— Ration reduced.— Orders refpe&ing Marriage.—-Port Regulations.—
Settlers.— Public Works.
XIII. A Mufquet found by a Native. — Reports of Plans to feize Boats__
Supply arrives from Norfolk Wand.— 'The King’s Birth-day— A Canoe
deftroyed— Its evil Effeas— Corn fown— Battery begun— One hundred
and forty Acres inclofed for Cattle.— The Mary Ann arrives.——
Two Criminal Courts held.— Ration improved.— The Matilda arrives.
— The Mary Ann fails for Norfolk Ifland__Settlers__The Atlantic
and Salamander arrive— Full Ration iffued.— The William and Ann
arrives.— Natives— Public Works. - .
XIV. The Salamander fails for, and the Mary Ann arrives from Norfolk Ifland.
— Bondel, a Native, returns.— A-Seaman, for finking a Canoe, punifli-
ed*— The Gorgon arrives.— Commiflion of Emancipation-, and Public
Seal.— The A£Hve and Queen arrive.— Complaints againft the Mailer
of the Queen.— Supply ordered home.— Albemarle arrives.— Mutiny-
©n board.— Britannia and Admiral Barrington arrive.-—Future Deltina-
tion of the Tranfports.— The Atlantic and Queen hired.— Atlantic
fails for Bengal.— Salamander returns from Norfolk Ifland.— Tranfac-
tions.— Public Works.— Suicide. - . _ . . „
X V . A Party of Irilh Cenvi£ls abfcond.— The Queen fails for Norfolk Ifland.
Whale-Filhery.— Ration altered.— The Supply fails for England.—*
Live Stock (Public) in the Colony.-— Ground in Cultivation.—-Sick.—
Run of Water decreafing.— Two Tranfports fail.— Whale-Filhery given*
UP*— The Queen arrives from Norfolk Ifland.—The Marines embark,
in the Gorgon for England.— Ration further reduced. Tranfa£tions.
— Convids who were in the Guardian emancipated— Store finilhed.—
Deaths in 179.1. - - - . _ ^
XVI'. The Queen failsrfor Norfolk Ifland..—Whalers on their Fiffiing Voyages—
Convi&s miffing.— Various Depredations— Difpenfary and Bake-houfe
robbed.— Proclamatiorf.— A Criminal Court held.— Convi£l executed.,
— Tranfo&ions.—The Pitt with Lieutenant-Governor Grofe arrives—
Military Duty fixed for Parramatta.— Goods felling at Sydney from the
Pitt— The Pitt ordered to be difpatched to Norfolk Ifland— Gommif-
fions. read— Sicknefs— The Pitt fails— Mr. Burton killed.— Stormy
Weather— Public Works— Regulations refpeaing Perfons who had
ferved their Terms of Tranfportation,— Natives.
XVII. Mortality in April— Appearance and State of the Convi£ls.-Ration
again reduced— Quantity of Flour in Store.— Settlers— State of:
Tranfadlions with the Natives.— Indian Corn ftolen.— Public Works.
— Average Prices of Grain, &c. at Sydney, and at Parramatta. — Mortality
decreafes.— King’s Birth-day.— The Atlantic returns from Bengal.
— Account
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— Account received of Bryant and his Companions.— Ration farther
reduced— Atlantic cleared.— Sheep-pens at Parramatta attempted.—
Quality of Provifions received from Calcutta— The Britannia arrives
from England.— Ration increafed.— A Convift emancipated.— Public
Works. ** - - - ~ - ~ - 209
XVIII. The Britannia cleared— Survey of Provifions.— Total of Cargo received
from Bengal;— Atlantic fails with Provifions for Norfolk Ifland.— Tranf-
a&ions.— General Behaviour of Convi&s.— Criminal Courts.— Prifoner
pardoned conditionally.— Another acquitted— New Barracks begun—
Thefts— The Atlantic returns from Norfolk Ifland.— Information-
Settlers there difcontented— Principal Works.—The Britannia taken
up by the Officers of the New South Wales Corps toprocure Stock—
The Royal Admiral Eaft Indiaman arrives from England.^Regulations
at the Store.— A Burglary committed.— Criminal Court.— The Britannia
fails.— Shop8 opened.— Bad Conduct of fome Settlers.— Oil
iflued — Slops ferved.r--Governor Phillip fignifies his Intention of
returning to England. - - - - - - 226
XIX. A Veffel from America arrives.— Part of her Cargo purchafed— George
Barrington and others emancipated conditionally.— The Royal Admiral
fails. —Arrival of the Kitty Tranfport.— 1001 1. received by her.— Hof-
pital built at Parramatta.— Harveft begun at Toongabbe.— Ration increafed.
— The Philadelphia fails for Norfolk Ifland.— State of the Cultivation
previous to the Governor’s Departure.— Settlers.— Governor
Phillip fails for England.—Regulations madc-bjr the Lieutenant- Governor.—
The Hope, an American Ship, arrives.— Her Cargo purchafed
for the Colony.— The ChefterfieldlWhaler arrives.— Grant of Land to
an Officer.— Extreme Heat and Conflagration.— Deaths in 1792.—
Prices of Stock, &c. - . - - - - - - 242
XX. Order refpe&ing Spirits.—Seamen punilhed.— Convi&s enlifted jnto the
new Corps.— Regulations refpe£ling Divine Service.—^-The Hope fails.
— The Bellona arrives.-—Cargo damaged.— Information.-—Two Women
and a Child drowned.— The Kitty fails for Norfolk Ifland.—
Ration.— An Officer fent up to infpeft the Cultivation at Parramatta.
— A Theft committed,— Works. — Kangooroo Ground opened.—.
Settlers. — Liberty Plains.— Conditions.— Bellona fails.— Tranfa£tions.
— The Shah Hormuzear from Calcutta arrives.— Information received
by her. - The Dholl expended.— Sicknefs and Death occafioned by the
American Spirits.-—The Chefterfiel'd fent to Norfolk Ifland.— Convi£ls
fell their Clothing. —Two Spanilh Ships arrive.— Information.— Epitaph.
— A Criminal Court.— The Kitty returns from Norfolk Ifland,—
Fraud at the Store at Parramatta. - - - - * - 259
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