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cured beef, with twenty-feven barrels of pitch and tar, were taken 

 into ftore ; the expence of which amounted to 2829I. us. 



Notwithstanding the very long voyage which Captain Patrickfon 

 had had, his fpeculation did not prove very difadvantageous to him. 

 Much of that part of his cargo which was not taken by government, 

 was difpofed of among the officers and others of the fettlement ; and 

 the Governor hired his velTei to take provifions to Norfolk Ifland, 

 giving him 150I. for the run. 



On the 3d of the month three warrants of emancipation palled the 

 feal of the territory ; one of which was in favour of a man who, 

 whatever might have been his conduct when at large in fociety, had 

 in that country not only demeaned himfelf with ftrict propriety, but 

 had rendered effential fervices to the colony — George Barrington. 

 He came out in the Active ; and had on his arrival been placed by 

 the Governor in a fituation at Toongabbe, which was likely to attract 

 the envy and hatred of the convicts, in proportion as he might be 

 vigilant and inflexible. He was firfl placed as a fubordinate, and 

 ffiortly after as a principal watchman 5 in which fituation he was 

 diligent, fober, and impartial ; and had rendered himfelf fo eminently 

 ferviceable, that the Governor refolved to draw him from the line of 

 convicts ; and, with the inftrument of his emancipation, he received 

 a grant of thirty acres of land. He was afterwards fworn in a 

 peace-officer. Here was not only a reward for paft good conduct, 

 but an incitement to a continuance of it ; and Barrington found him- 

 felf, through the Governor's liberality, though not fo abfolutely free 

 as to return to England at his own pleafure, yet enjoying the immu- 

 nities of a free man, a fettler, and a civil officer, in whofe integrity 

 much confidence was placed. 



On the 13th the Royal Admiral failed for Canton. Of the private 

 Ipeculations taken out in that (hip, they fold to the amount of 3600I. 

 and left articles to be difpofed of to the amount of 75 ol. more. 



On the 1 8th the Kitty tranfport anchored in the cove from Eng- 

 land, after a circuitous pafiage of thirty-three weeks, round by the Rio 



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