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except that the Coronation was positively to take place on 

 the 8tli of September. 



If you have any thing to send to Head Quarters the 

 hearer will bring it for you. 



Believe me, my dear Major, 



With the most sincere wishes for your success, 

 veiy truly yours, 

 (Signed) J. D. Forbes. 



Barber was retaken, but his gin or native wife who had 

 facilitated his escape, then proceeded, as is supposed, to the 

 tribes beyond Liverpool range. He was conveyed to the 

 hulks at Sydney, and having been tried and condemned, his 

 sentence was finally commuted to banishment to Norfolk 

 Island, where he remained from 1832 to 1835. He was 

 then sent to Sydney with a party of expirees (or prisoners, 

 whose sentences of banishment to that island had expired.) 

 The Commandant of Norfolk Island had then reported to 

 the Governor of New South Wales that amongst these ex- 

 pirees was " a man named George Clarke, who, according 

 to private information lie had received, intended some injury 

 to Major Mitchell." This was communicated to me, and I 

 at length recollected that this might be George the Barber, 

 whose life I had been in some degree the means of sparing. 

 He wrote me a letter, couched in the most grateful terms, 

 and in which he offered to accompany me, if permitted, on 

 my expedition into the interior (in 1835), and which proposal 

 I was inclined to accept, and indeed made application through 

 Colonel Snodgrass for this man, as one of my party, but Sir 

 Richard Bourke appreciated his offer much more judiciously, 

 as events proved, and sent Barber to Van Dieinen's Land, 

 where he was soon after hanged. He was undoubtedly a 

 man of remarkable character, and far before his fellows in 

 talents and cunning ; a man who, in short, under favourable 

 circumstajices, might have organized the scattered natives 

 into formidable bands of marauders. 



