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ful appearance, and were obliged to anchor every night wherever 
they could find shelter, not daring to proceed after sunset, having 
had many narrow escapes even in the day-light, but were at the 
period before mentioned eutirely clear of that dreadful coast. 
They lost their two anchors and cables under Cairneross 
Island at II p.m. on the 30th of June, and nothing but the 
tide, which fortunately set to windward, kept them clear of the 
dangers which surrounded them on every side ; and the weather 
being so exceedingly bad at the time, their escape was a miracle. 
Mr. Perceval Baskerville, a midshipman of the Bathurst, and a 
native of Plymouth, was sent on shore with a party on the east- 
ernmost island of Flinders’s Group, for the purpose of picking up 
any part of the wreck of the ship Frederick, which had been lost 
there; when they were encountered by a large party of the na- 
tives, who commenced a horrible shout, which proved the signal 
to engage, and they commenced by throwing a shower of spears 
with great agility, by which two of the party were wounded. 
The Bathurst’s people, being unarmed, could make no other re- 
sistance than by detending themselves with stones, while a party 
of them were immediately dispatched in the boat, in order to 
procure fire-arms from the ship. The natives, seeing the trans- 
action, took the opportunity, while the boat was absent, to at- 
tack those left on shore more violently, and Mr. Baskerville 
and his little party were surrounded and made prisoners. How- 
ever, no attempt was made to take their lives after the capture ; 
and on the return of the boat, through artifice, they again joined 
their comrades. But shortly afterwards the natives came down in 
great numbers, and again attacked the party, who, being now 
armed, gave them a volley that occasioned them to scamper off 
in all diteetions, leaving two on the ground wounded; but the 
soon after got up-and escaped, and no others appeared while the 
Bathurst remained there.— Plymouth Telegraph. 
NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Letters are in town from Port Jackson, to the middle of June, 
by the Skelton, at which period the prospects of the territory 
continued to bear the same favourable aspect they have long as- 
sumed. 
Mr. Throsby had returned on the 20th of April from an ex- 
eursion into the country to the southward of Lake George, The 
persevering efforts of this gentleman iu exploring the interior of 
this territory have often attracted the public attention ; and have 
contributed in a very eminent degree to open to the colonists a 
large tract of land, that now affords abundant pasturage toa con- 
siderable number of cattle and sheep, and bas much relieved the 
exhausted and overstocked grazing-grounds in the early-settled 
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