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and a woman he lived with, had quarrelled, when 

 she to avoid a beating, flew to an empty house 

 followed by Hill, and poor Burn to prevent 

 Hill from beating* Jber, irjterferred, on this the 

 rascal mil, stabbed him to the heart, of which 

 wound he died in an hour. Hill the fiend of 

 iniquity, was executed on the 16'th, and 

 dissected. 



The settlers at Hawkesbury, now feemed to 

 require some person of authority to be present, 

 for an account was received, that the natives 

 were urged to their late depredations, by an 

 act of cruelty, to a native boy, whom the set- 

 tlers had tied hands and feet together, and 

 dragging him several times through a fire, threw 

 him into a river and then shot him, this they in 

 part acknowledged, but assigned as the cause 

 that the boy had been sent among them as a spy. 

 In the evening of the 25th, arrived the Surprize 

 transport from England, with 60 females SS 

 males, and some i'ew stores and provisions, 

 among these convicts were Mess. Muir, Palmer, 

 Skirving and Margarot, convicted in Scotland 

 for sedition. On the 23d of November, the 

 Daedalus returned from Norfolk Island. Several 

 whose sentences had expired, and ten settlers 

 who gave up their farms in consequence of their 

 bills for corn not being honoured, had now 

 entered into the New South Wales corps, arrived 

 in this vessel. 



The Lieutenant-Governor meaning to quit 

 the country by th: Dsedalus, proper preparations 

 were made, which being completed the Leiute- 



