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At the same time arrived the Indispensable, a 

 Southern whaler, commanded by Mr. Wilkin- 

 son, but she sailed again immediately. 



During this month the foundation of a stone 

 building intended for a church, was laid at 

 Sydney. It was intended to be 150 feet in length, 

 and 52 in breadth. Similar preparations were 

 making at Paramatta, but of a smaller size than 

 those at Sydney. 



In November the criminal court of judica^ 

 ture met twice, for the trial of several offenders; 

 one of whom convicted of perjury, stood in the 

 pillory agreeable to his sentence. 



Bennillong, who might have continued living 

 at the Governor's house, preferred the^dangerous 

 society of his own countrymen, only visiting 

 the settlement when the recollection of the 

 comforts he could no where else enjoy, oppres- 

 sed him too powerfully. Information was 

 brought of his having again been wounded in a 

 contest with some of the other natives. Ben- 

 nillong had received and recovered of many 

 wounds, any single one of which would have 

 destroyed an European. The natives certainly 

 owe their fortunate recoveries more to their 

 good habit of body than to any other cause. 



A fatal instance of effects of improper con- 

 duct, and keen sense of criminality, was exem- 

 plified in the melancholy end of Nathaniel 

 Franklin, the Governor's steward. This man he 

 brought from England, and intrusted the entire 

 care and management of his domestic concerns 

 to him. He had been very often cautioned by 



