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In the morning he came out, and looking round 

 him saw his danger, he presented his musquet, 

 but before he could pull the trigger Wimbow 

 fired and shot him. They took him to the hut 

 of Rose, a settler, at Liberty Plains, and be ex- 

 pired in a few hours. Thus ended a man who 

 had given more trouble than any other convict 

 in the settlement. 



On the 18th, the Otter sailed for America. 

 By her escaped Thomas Muir, transported for 

 sedition, and several others whose sentences 

 were not expired. Muir, in a letter he left 

 said, he conceived that in withdrawing he was 

 only asserting his freedom ; and meant if he ar- 

 rived in safety, to enjoy what he deemed himfelf 

 to have regained of it in America, until the 'time 

 should come when he might return to his own 

 country with credit and comfort. He purposed 

 practising at the American bar. In this coun- 

 try he passed his time in ease and retirement, 

 living out of the town at a spot of ground which 

 he had purchased. 



The Abigal, another American, in a few days 

 arrived; but as several prisoners had found an 

 asylum in the Otter, the Governor ordered the 

 Abigal to anchor in Neutral Bay, where he 

 imagined the line of communication would not 

 be so easy as in Sydney Cove. Her master, 

 Thornton, gave out that he was bound ,to Ma- 

 nilla and Canton. For part of his cargo, how- 

 ever, he met with purchasers, notwithstanding 

 the stock of articles which the late arrivals hac| 

 brought in. 



