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until, being joined by thofe who had taken to the woods, they could 

 procure a larger and a fafer conveyance from the country. 



On the 17th of September, the Sugar-Cane tranfport anchored in the 

 cove from Cork. She had on board one hundred and ten male, and 

 fifty female convicts, and a ferjeant's party of the New South Wales 

 corps as a guard. On the 25th of May, information was given to the 

 agent on the part of Government, that a meeting w r as intended by the 

 convicls, and that they had proceeded fo far as to faw off fome of their 

 irons. Insinuations were at the fame time thrown out, of the probability 

 of their being joined by certain of the failors and of the guard. The 

 agent, after making the neceffary inquiry, thought it indifpenfable to 

 the fafety of the fhip, to caufe an inftant example to be made, and or- 

 dered one of the convicls who was found out of irons to be executed 

 that night; others were punifhed the next morning ; and by thefe mea- 

 sures, as might well be expected, threw fuch a damp on the fpirits of 

 the refc, that he heard no more during the voyage of attempts or inten- 

 tions to take the fhip. 



After the arrival of the Boddington, many circumftances refpeding 

 the intended mutiny in that fhip had been difclofed by the convicls 

 ihemfelves, which were not before known. They did not hefitate to 

 fay, that all the officers were to have been murdered, the firft mate and 

 the agent excepted, who were to be preferved alive for the purpofe of 

 conducting the (hip to a port, where they were likewife to be put to 

 death. 



As intentions of this kind had been talked of in feveral mips, the 

 military guard mould never have been lefs than an officer's com- 

 mand, and that guard (efpecially when embarked for the fecurity of a 

 fhip full of wild lawlefs Iriih) ought never to have been compofed 

 either of young foldiers, or of deferters from other corps. 



Captain Paterfon, of the New South Wales corps, an account of 

 whofe journies in Africa appeared in print fome years ago, conceiving 

 that he might be able to penetrate as far as, or even beyond, the wef- 

 tern mountains, (commonly known in the colony by the name of the 



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