1792] 



OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



One convict during this month was executed for theft i at the tree 

 he addreffed his fellow-convids, warning them to avoid the paths that 

 he had purfued ; but protefted that he had been induced by hunger to 

 commit the crime for which he fuffered. He appeared defirous of 

 death, declaring that he knew he could not live without ftealing. 



To a tract of land marked out for eight marines who had become 

 fettlers, the name of the Field of Mars was given by Governor Philip. 



The convicts employed in cultivating and clearing public ground 

 beyond Parramatta, having been landed in a weak and fickly ftate, 

 wore in general a moll miferable and emaciated appearance, and num- 

 bers of them died daily. The reduced ration by no means contributed 

 to their amendment ; 'the wheat that was raifed in the lad year (four 

 hundred and fixty bumels), after referving fufficient for feed, was 

 iffued to them at a pound per man per week ; and a pound of rice 

 per week was iffued to each male convict at Sydney. 



On the 14th of February the fignal was made for a fail, and fhortly 

 after the Pitt, Captain Edward Manning, anchored in the cove from 

 England, having failed on the 17th of July from Yarmouth Roads, 

 and had rather a long paffage, touching at St. Jago, Rio de Janeiro, 

 and the Cape of Good Hope. She had on board Francis Grofe, Efq. 

 the Lieutenant-Governor of the fettlements, and Major-Commandant 

 of the New South Wales corps ; one company of which, together 

 with the adjutant, came out with him. 



This veffel brought out three hundred and nineteen male, and 

 forty-nine female convi&s, five children, and feven free women, with 

 fait provifions calculated to ferve that number of people ten months, 

 but which would only furnifh. the colony with provifions for forty 

 days. The fupply of provifions was confined to fait meat, under the 

 idea that the colony was not in immediate want of flour, and that a 

 fupply had been fent from Calcutta, which, together with what had 

 been procured from Batavia, that which had been fent from England, 

 and the grain that might have been raifed in the fettlements, would 

 be adequate to their confumption. The difpatches, however, which 



y had 



