*702. intelligence from New South Wales, lOi . 



A. reform of government, (if this country is continu- 

 ed,) is much wanted ; but nothing can be so truly accep- 

 table as freedom and a trial by jury, in tCA cases. 



Our jouvnies to the northward or southward, along the 

 coast, have not as yet extended farther than Broken Bay 

 and Botany Bay. But the country bacjiwaids has-been 

 penetrated and pretty accurately examined for upwards 

 of thirty miles •, but, as I have formerly said, it has not 

 been commended, some few tracts excepted, that have 

 presented a better appearance. 



Norfolk island, I am informed, from the benignity of 

 its soil, bids fair to support five or six hundred colonists 

 very wel But a greater number it is thought would 

 prove a burden, as a sufficient quantity of timber must be 

 left to stand for firewood ; and the whole island does not 

 exceed 11,000 acres. 



At this place, and Farramatta, bricks and tiles are made 

 in numbers, and with ease j so that more permanent build- 

 ings than our original habitations were, are erecting as 

 fast as pofsible. 1 with we could fill our granaries as rea- 

 dily as we can build houses. 



The Mary Ann arrived here on the 9th of July last, 

 vtith 141 female convicts, after a pafsage of four montW 

 and twelve days from Gravesend. Since which the Gor- 

 gon, and six of the transports bound to this part of the 

 •world, have come in all safety j the other four were left ^ 

 at the cape. 



They have been very healthy throughout the voyage, and 

 few of them have greatly exceeded five months on their 

 pafsage. 



These ten sail of transports will nearly land us 2000 

 convicts ; without bringing more than a proportion of six 

 months provisions for their subsistence ; so that store (hips 

 •will need to arrive fliortly, or else we fliall soon be sorely 

 j)inched. 



