Bo to correspondents. May 16, 
intention was to reach some of the East India islands; but 
they were, upon the whole, so badly appointed, that it is 
very improbable they could have survived long. 
* Detaining and punifhing the convicts for attempting to 
get away, after their terms of transportation have expired, 
has occasioned much murmuring and discontent among 
them, and will, no doubt, impel them to attempt their li- 
berty, however dismal or distant the prospect of obtaining 
it may be. 
‘IT send this by Mr Morgan, surgeon of his majesty’s fhip 
Sirius, who returns to England in the Dutch vefsel that 
brought us a little better than two months provisions from 
Batavia. He is a young gentleman of approved charac- 
ter and merit. 
‘ If you condescend to receive this, and give him a hear- 
ing, you will receive a very just account of our situation 
in this colony. 
‘ Much also may be expected from captain Hunter, 
whose virtue and integrity is as conspicuous as his merit ; 
and his officers, who are for the most part men of respec- 
table characters, can, from real experience, describe the 
steril territory of New South Wales.’ 
TO CORSESPONDENTS. 
‘Tue verses by E. I. O.arereceived. It is with regret the Editor finds 
himself unable to insert one half of the pieces with which he is favoured 5 
and he fears that, on account of the number and importance of his prose 
‘communications, he will be under the necefsity rather of curtailing than 
‘of augmenting the limits appropriated to poetry. May he once more re= 
quest of his poetical correspondents to try always to perfect their pieces in- 
‘to gems. It is in this way only they can insure their insertion. 
The verses by J, are received and under consideration. 
*.* Acknowledgements to other correspondents, in absence 
of the Editor, deferred. 
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