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that he was ready to make oath to the truth of his relation. If there 

 was any truth in his account, and the mafters of thefe mips did 

 actually turn any people on fhore in the manner already defcribed, it 

 was more than probable that an act: of fuch apparent cruelty had been 

 occafioned by fome attempt of the convids to take the (hips from 

 them ; and the numbers which were fuppofed to have been on board 

 rather juftified the fuppofition. Captain Manning, of the Pitt, who 

 had taken twenty men and nine women from the fettlement, found 

 them fo ufelefs and troublefome, that he was very glad to leave the 

 greateft part of them at Batavia, and regretted ever having received 

 them on board. When thefe circumftances mould be made public, 

 it was thought that the mafters of fhips would not in future be fo de~ 

 firbus of recruiting their fhips' companies from among the inhabitants 

 of that colony. 



On the 13th of March, a Spanifh officer arrived at the Governor's 

 houfe, with information that two fhips of his country had anchored in 

 the lower part of the harbour. Thefe proved to be the veffels of 

 whofe expected arrival intelligence had been received from England 

 in the year 1790, and to whom it was recommended that every at- 

 tention fhould be paid. They were named the Defcuvierta and At- 

 revida (the Difcovery and Intrepid) ; the former commanded by Don 

 Alexandro Malafpina, with a broad pendant as the commander of 

 the expedition, and the latter by Don Jofe de Buftamante y Guerra. 

 They had been three years and a half from Europe on a voyage of 

 difcovery and information ; and were now arrived from Manilla, after 

 a paflage of ninety-fix days ; touching in their way to Sydney at Dufky 

 Bay in New Zealand, which they had left about a fortnight. 



On their going up, they anchored juft abreaft of the two points 

 which formed Sydney Cove, declining to falute, as it was not in the 

 power of the Governor to return it. Thefe fhips were of three hundred 

 and five tons burden each, and were built for the particular voyage 

 on which they were fent. Great care was obfervable in their con- 

 ftrucVion, both as to the ftrength of the veflels, the accommodation of 



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