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Zealand * ; but here was a proof that, in every breaft that fentiment 

 is the fame ; and that a love for our native country is not the refult of 

 her being the feat of arts and arms, the refidence of worth, beauty, 

 truth, juftice ; of all the virtues that adorn and dignify human nature, 

 and all the pleafures and enjoyments that render life valuable ; but 

 that it can be excited even in a land where wretchednefs, want, and 

 ignorance have laid their iron hands on the inhabitants, and marked 

 with mifery all their days and nights. 



In the William arrived an afTiftant chaplain, to divide the religious 

 duties of the colony with Mr. Johnfon. 



Had it been known on the evening of the 8th, when the report 

 was received that the fhip had been blown out to fea, that me contained 

 fo valuable a cargo as four months' beef and pork at the full ration, 

 how would their anxiety have been increafed upon her account ! Had 

 {he, as the Juftinian had before, been blown off the coaft for three 

 weeks, how deeply would diftrefs have been felt in thefe fettlements ! 



The brig from Bengal had on board a fmall quantity of beef and 

 pork ; fome fugar, Bengal rum, and coarfe callicoes. 



To the great furprife and regret of every inhabitant of Port Jack- 

 fon, no account, at the time of the brig leaving Calcutta, had been 

 heard of Mr. Bampton's arrival in any port in India. He had at his 

 departure expreiTed a resolution of attempting a paffage between New 

 Holland and Guinea, in the hope of being, if fuccefsful, the firft to 

 eftablifh a fact that would be attended with Angular advantages to 

 his Majefty's fettlements in that part of the world. This intention 

 increafed the alarm for his fafety ; as Captain Bligh, of the happy con- 

 clufion of whofe fecond voyage for the bread-fruit they now heard, 

 was particularly inftru&ed to furvey the (traits which feparate New 

 Holland from New Guinea ; and by the accounts of his voyage which 

 reached them they found, that the two (hips, Providence and Affiftance, 



* The New Zealanders who were taken to Sydney expreffed, both there and at Norfolk 

 Iflandj the utmoft abhorrence of the country and its inhabitants. 



were 



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