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mouth ; from which latter place they learned, with no fmall degree 

 of wonder and mortification, that me failed on the 29th of July (full 

 ten months before) with two hundred and twenty- two female con- 

 vi&s on board. 



They had long conjectured, that the non-arrival of fupplies muft be 

 owing either to accident or delays in the voyage, and not to any 

 backwardnefs on the part of Government in fending them out. They 

 now found that their difappointment was to be afcribed to both mif- 

 fortune and delay. The Lady Juliana, it has been feen, failed in July 

 laft ; and in the month of September following his Majefty's fhip 

 Guardian, of forty-four guns, commanded by Lieutenant Edward 

 Riou, failed from England, having on board (with what was in the 

 Lady Juliana) two years' provifions for the fettlement ; a fupply of 

 clothing for the marines ; together with a large quantity of fails and 

 cordage, with fixteen chefts of medicines; fifteen cafks of wine; a 

 quantity of blankets and bedding for the hofpital ; and a large fupply 

 of unmade clothing for the convi&s ; with an ample aflbrtment of 

 tools and implements of agriculture. 



At the Cape of Good Hope Lieutenant Riou took on board a 

 quantity of ftock for the fettlement, and completed a garden which 

 had been prepared under the immediate infpe&ion of Sir Jofeph 

 Banks, and in which there were one hundred and fifty of the fined 

 fruit trees, feveral of them bearing fruit. 



There was fcarcely an officer in the colony that had not his fhare of 

 private property embarked on board of this richly-freighted fhip. 



But it was as painful then to learn, as it will ever be to recoiled:, 

 that on the 23d day of December preceding, the Guardian ftruck 

 againft an ifland of ice in latitude 45 0 54' South, and longitude 

 41° 30' Eaft, whereby (lie received fo much injury, that Lieutenant 

 Riou was compelled, in order to fave her from inftantly finking, to 

 throw overboard the greater!: part of her valuable cargo both on the 

 public and private account. The flock was killed (feven horfes, Six- 

 teen cows, two bulls, a number of fheep, goats, and two deer), the 



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