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victs, which shews the high importance of 

 young men avoiding those connections so repleat 

 with evil. 



The Betsey whaler arrived on the 13th, from 

 the West coast of America with 350 harrels 

 of oil. She was very leaky, and wanted much 

 repair. At the same time the Hunter bark came 

 from Calcutta, with a cargo on speculation; 

 and the next day a Spanish brig captured by the 

 whalers. 



On the 1 6th arrived the Friendship transport 

 from Ireland with convicts : last from the 

 Cape of Good Hope, where the Buffalo was 

 embarking cattle for the settlement. The con- 

 victs arrived in very good health, though they 

 had been rather sickly previous to her reaching 

 the Cape. 



The generality of the convicts sent by this 

 ship and the Minerva were but ill calculated to 

 be of any advantage to the settlement, as 

 little addition could be made by them to 

 the strength of the labouring gangs.. Many of 

 them were bred up in genteel habits, and others 

 to light professions, and of course unaccustomed 

 to hard labour. These must become a drain 

 on the store ; for, notwithstanding the detesta- 

 tion for the crimes many of them were trans- 

 ported for, yet it was not possible for the 

 ^^ Governor, consistent with his well-known feel- 

 ing humanity, to send a Physician, the once 

 Sheriff of a county, a Catholic priest, or a 

 Protestant clergyman and family, to the brick- 

 xarts, brick-fields, grubbing hoe, or the timber 



