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cloathing, could not be granted, as the store was 

 not rich enough in these articles to afford relief. 



The Rebecca whaler arriving, brought the 

 account of the battle of the Nile, which was 

 celebrated by a discharge of the artillery. The 

 goods which arrived in the Rebecca for sale, 

 were not able to be disposed of at Sydney, as 

 a bad harvest had prevented the settlers being in 

 possession of any money. The Nautilus was 

 therefore chartered to convey them to Norfolk 

 Island, where they might find a market. 



The Britannia came in to repair, and her suc- 

 cess could by no means be complained of, as 

 she had procured nearly 26 tons of oil while 

 absent, and had the weather been more favoiuv 

 able, she would have taken much more. 

 . During March, the criminal court met once, 

 when one man received sentence of death for 

 house breaking ; and another for the same of- 

 fence, was to be transported for ]4 years. The 

 civil court was a week deciding a variety of 

 causes for debt. 



On the 1st of April the criminal court was 

 assembled for the trial of a soldier, whoa few 

 days before stabbed a seaman belonging to the 

 Reliance, that insulted him while on duty as 

 centinal on a wharf at Sydney. As the man 

 died, the soldier was of course tried for murder, 

 but in the defence he made it was proved to the 

 court, that it was occasioned by the intemper- 

 ance of the seaman, in consequence of which he 

 was accordingly found to have committed a 

 justifiable homicide. 



