263 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [July, 



On the 5th of July another American fhip from Rhode Ifland was 

 announced, having on board a cargo of faked provifions and fpirits, 

 on fpeculation. The mafter of this vefiel was uncle to the mailer of 

 the Halcyon ; and, being at enmity with him, the former had deter- 

 mined after his departure to precede him in his arrival at Port Jack- 

 fon ; which the Hope being to touch at the Falkland Iflands enabled 

 him to do with all the fuccefs that he could have wifhed, the market 

 being too well fupplied to admit of any purchafers of his venture, 

 except for his fpirits ; and this article was fold at half the price which 

 had been given to his relation. 



On the 8th the Indifpenfable and Halcyon failed on their refpedtive 

 voyages, the former for Bengal, and the latter for Canton., By the 

 latter fome difpatches were fent, to be forwarded by the way of China 

 to his Majefty's Secretary of State for the home department. On the 

 day following the departure of thofe mips, the Fancy fnow arrived 

 from Bombay, having on board a fmall quantity of rice and dholl, 

 intended as a part of the contracT: entered into by Captain Bampton, 

 who, they now learned, had arrived fafely at Bombay, after a long 

 paflage of feven months. Mr. Dell, the mafter of this veffel, had 

 been Mr. Bampton's chief mate in the Shah Hormuzear, and from 

 him the following information was obtained. 



The mips Shah Hormuzear and Chefterfield failed, as before re- 

 lated, from Norfolk Ifland on the 27th of May 1793. On the 2d of 

 the following month they fell in with an ifland which obtained the 

 name of Tate's Ifland, and at which they had the misfortune to ftave 

 a boat. The circumftances of the murder of Captain Hill, Mr. Carter, 

 Shaw, and the boat's crew, were related by Mr. Dell. It appeared 

 from his account, that they had landed to fearch for frefh water, 

 and purpofed remaining one night on the ifland to barter with the na- 

 tives, to procure emu feathers from them. The day after they were 

 put on more the weather changed, coming on to blow hard the 

 {hip was driven to leeward of the bay in which they landed ; and it 

 was not until the third day that it was poflible to fend a boat after 



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