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spectators a proper awe. These directions be- 

 ing complied with, and the ropes put about 

 their necks, the provost marshal produced the 

 pardon and read it. One appeared much af- 

 fected ; but the other declared that he was 

 never in his life so well prepared, and indeed 

 he seemed hardly to desire a procrastination of 

 death. 



On the 14th the Hunter sailed for Norfolk 

 Island, and on the 16th the Speedy whaler 

 -arrived from England, with fifty female con- 

 victs ; and eight hundred and thirty-two casks 

 of salt provisions, which enabled the Governor 

 again to issue a full ration. 



In this ship arrived Capt. Philip Gidley King, 

 the lieutenant-governor of Norfolk Island. 



In the evening of the same day, the Buffalo 

 arrived from the Cape of Good Hope, having 

 on board eighty-five cows and twenty breeding 

 mares. This voyage was performed in seven 

 months, the Buffalo having sailed from Port 

 Jackson on the 15th of last September. She 

 made her passage there in three months, arriv- 

 ing in Table Bay on the 16th of December. 



The quantity of spirits at this time in the 

 colony occasioned much intoxication and irre- 

 gularity. The settlers at the Hawkesbury lost 

 to their own interest neglected sowing their 

 grounds : a circumstance which, but for the 

 interference of the Governor, would have ended 

 in their ruin. On hearing their situation, he 

 forbade the sending more spirits to that profli- 

 gate district of the colony, as well as the retail- 



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