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finding the market well-stocked, or coming 

 only to enable convicts to make their escapes, 

 he offered for sale as a favour, a small quantity 

 of rum, wine, and tea. The natives resumed 

 their troublesome conduct, and wounded a boat- 

 man during this month. On the 21st, the Re- 

 liance sailed for Norfolk Island. Two; days 

 afterwards, Eades, a soldier, fell from a, rock 

 and was drowned, leaving a widow and five little 

 children, for whose benefit a night was given 

 by the players, on the 4th' of February, which 

 produced 121. The Marquis Conrwallis, from 

 Ireland, anchored, on the 11th of February, in 

 the Cove, with %SS convicts, male and female, 

 of the country from which they came. In the 

 voyage a plan was detected to take the ship, 

 but was discovered and prevented ; one part of 

 the plan which the females were to execute, was 

 to mix powdered glass with the flour used by 

 the seamen for puddings. This ship likewise 

 brought intelligence, that the Cape of Good 

 Hope had surrendered to his Majesty's arms ; 

 and General Craig and Commodore Blanket, 

 both sent official accounts of the circumstance 

 to Governor Hunter, kindly offering any ser* 

 vices in their power for the benefit of the 

 settlement. 



On the J 5 th, the black Ca?sar was shot by 

 Wimbow. This man and another, tempted by 

 the reward of five gallons of spirits, had been 

 for some days in quest of him. Finding his 

 haunt, they concealed themselves all night at the 

 edge of a brush which they perceived him enter, 



