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ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY 



[January, 



CHAP. IX. 



THE QUEEN SAILS FOR NORFOLK ISLAND. WHALERS ON THEIR FISHING 



VOYAGES. CONVICTS MISSING. DEPREDATIONS. PROCLAMATION. 



CONVICT EXECUTED. THE PITT WITH LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR GROSE 



ARRIVES. — GOODS SELLING. — SICKNESS. — THE PITT SAILS. — MR. BUR- 

 TON KILLED. — STORMY WEATHER. — PUBLIC WORKS.— REGULATIONS RE- 

 SPECTING PERSONS WHO HAD SERVED THEIR TERMS OF TRANSPORTATION. 



NATIVES.— MORTALITY IN APRIL. APPEARANCE AND STATE OF THE 



CONVICTS. RATION AGAIN REDUCED. — QUANTITY OF FLOUR IN STORE. 



SETTLERS. — STATE OF TRANSACTIONS WITH THE NATIVES.—- PUBLIC 



WORKS. — AVERAGE FRICES OF GRAIN, &C AT SYDNEY AND AT PARRA- 

 MATTA, — MORTALITY DECREASES. — KING'S BIRTH-DAY. — THE ATLAN- 

 TIC RETURNS FROM BENGAL. ACCOUNT RECEIVED OF BRYANT AND HIS 



COMPANIONS. RATION STILL FURTHER REDUCED. — QUANTITY OF PRO- 

 VISIONS RECEIVED FROM CALCUTTA. — THE BRITANNIA ARRIVES FROM 



ENGLAND. RATION INCREASED. —-CONVICT EMANCIPATED. PUBLIC 



WORKS. — THE BRITANNIA CLEARED. SURVEY OF PROVISIONS. — INTEL- 

 LIGENCE FROM NORFOLK ISLAND. 



JTARLY in the month of January 1792, fixty-two people, fettlers and 

 convi&s, with Mr. Bayne, the Chaplain of the New South Wales 

 corps (who offered his fervices, as there never had been a clergyman 

 there), embarked on board the Queen for Norfolk Ifland ; the matter 

 of that fhip having engaged to carry them and a certain quantity of 

 provifions thither for the fum of one hundred and fifty pounds. Of 

 the fettlers twenty-two were lately difcharged from the marine fervice, 

 and the remainder were convids; fome of the latter, whofe terms of 

 tranfportation had expired, had chofen Norfolk Ifland to fettle in, and 

 others were fent to be employed for the public. 



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