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This mode of recruiting the regiment muft have proved as difguft- 

 ing to the officers as it was detrimental to the interefts of the fettle- 

 ment. If the corps was raifed for the purpofe of protecting the civil 

 eftablifhment, and of bringing a counterpoife to the vice and crimes 

 which might naturally be expe&ed to exift among the convicts, it 

 ought to have been carefully formed from the belt characters ; inftead 

 of which they now found a mutineer (a wretch who could deliberate 

 with others, and confent himfelf to be the chofen instrument of the de- 

 traction of his fovereign's fon,) fent among them, to remain for life, 

 perhaps, as a check upon fedition, now added to the catalogue of their 

 other imported vices. 



The ftoreiriips being cleared of their cargoes, a furvey was made 

 upon fuch part of them as was damaged, which was found to be very 

 confiderable. A ferving of flops was immediately iflued to the male 

 and female convicts. 



After an ab fence of eight weeks, the Dsedalus returned from Nor- 

 folk Ifland ; and on board her, ten of the marine fettlers, who had 

 given up their grounds in confequence of the difappointment which 

 they experienced with refpect to the corn bills, and had entered into 

 the New South Wales corps. By her it was underftood, that Philip 

 Ifland had been found to anfwer extremely well for the purpofe of 

 breeding flock : fome hogs, which were allowed to be placed there in 

 Auguft 1793, the property of an individual, had increafed fo prodi- 

 gioufly, as to render the raifing of hogs there on account of Govern- 

 ment an object with the Lieutenant-Governor. The Dsedalus imme- 

 diately began preparations for her departure for England ; and Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor Grofe fignified his intention of quitting the fettle- 

 ment by that opportunity. This officer having fet apart for each of 

 the gentlemen who came from Scotland in the Surprife a bricked hut, 

 in a row on the eaft fide of the coves, they took pofleffion of their new 

 habitations ; and foon declared, that they found fufficient reafon for 

 thinking their fituations " on the bleak and defolate fhores of New 



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