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the private foldier eight hundred. The fentence being approved by the 

 Lieutenant-Governor, was in part carried into execution, the corporal 

 receiving two hundred and feventy-five, and the foldier three hundred 

 lames. 



It has been feen, that the fupply brought by the Boddington was 

 very inconfiderable ; and no greater quantity was expe&ed with any 

 degree of certainty by the fhip which was to follow. The fait provi- 

 fions remaining in (lore (by a calculation made up to the 28th) were 

 fufficieni for only fourteen weeks at the full ration, including what had 

 been received by the Boddington, and fome furplus provifions which 

 had been purchafed of the agent to the contractor, and one hundred 

 ca{ks of pork which had been omitted by an overfight in. the laft 

 account. 



When it was confidered that their fupplies would always be affected 

 by commotions at home, and that, if a war mould take place between 

 England and any other nation, they might be retarded, or taken by the 

 enemy, the Lieutenant-Governor determined, while he had in his 

 own hands the means of fupplying himfelf, to employ them ; and on 

 the 26th chartered the Britannia for India. She was to proceed to Ben- 

 gal, to be freighted by the government of that prefidency with fait 

 provifions, Irifh beef or pork ; and in the event of its not being pof- 

 fible to procure them, the fhip was to return loaded with fugar, rice, 

 and dholl. 



The clergyman having completed the building which he began in 

 July, divine fervice was performed in it for the firft time on Sunday 

 the 25th of Auguft ; and for a temporary accommodation it appeared 

 likely to anfwer very well. Mr. Johnfon in his difcourfe, which was 

 intended to imprefs the minds of his audience with the neceflity of holi- 

 nefs in every place, lamented that the urgency of public works had 

 prevented any undertaking of the kind before, and had thus thrown it 

 upon him ; he declared that he had no other motive for (landing for- 

 ward in the bufinefs, than that of eftablifhing a place fheltered from 

 bad weather, and from the fummer heats, where public worfhip might 



be 



