M ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY October 



military perfons on board ; the refult of which was, the immediate 

 execution of thofe two at the fore-yard-arm. They had at this time 

 parted company with the other tranfports, and no other means feemed 

 fo likely to deter the convicts from any future attempt of the like 

 'nature. It afterwards appearing that two feamen had fupplied them 

 with inftruments for fawing off their irons, thefe were left at the 

 MI a n d of Madeira, to be Tent prifoners to England. 



On the following day the Britannia arrived, with one hundred and 

 twenty-nine male convi&s, ftores, and provifions on board ; and on 

 the 1 6th the Admiral Barrington, the laft of the ten fail of tranfports, 

 anchored in the cove, having on board a captain and a party of the 

 New South Wales corps, with two hundred and fixty-four male con- 

 victs, four women, and one child. She too had been unhealthy, 

 having loft thirty- fix convicts in the paffage, and brought in eighty- 

 four perfons fick. Her ftores and proportion of provifions were the 

 fame as on board of the other (hips. 



The whole number of convicts now received into the colony, in- 

 cluding thirty on board the Gorgon, were, male convicts one thou- 

 fand fix hundred and ninety-five ; females one hundred and fixty- 

 eight ; and children nine. There were alfo eight free women (wives 

 of convicts), and one child ; making a total number of one thoufand 

 eight hundred and eighty-one perfons, exclufive of the military. Up- 

 wards of two hundred convicts, male and female, had died on their 

 paffage. 



Of the ten fail of tranfports, five, after delivering their cargoes, 

 were to proceed on the Southern Whale Fifhery ; viz. the Mary Ann, 

 Matilda, William and Ann, Salamander, and Britannia. This laft 

 failed on the 24th, a week after her arrival, as did thofe whalers which 

 had arrived before her. The other tranfports were to proceed to 

 Bombay. The quantity of provifions received by thefe fhips being 

 calculated for the numbers on board of each for nine months only 

 after their arrival ; and as, fo large a body of convicts having been 

 fent out, it was not probable that they fliould foon have another 



fupply, 



