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cafks of Lifbon wine, four chefls and a half of Bohea tea, and two 

 hogQieads of melaffes. He had touched at the late refiden.ce of M. 

 Perron, the ifland of Amfterdam, and brought off as many, of the 

 feal-fkins (his veffel being bound to China, after vifmng the north-wed 

 coaft of America) as he could take on board. 



Be-nil-long's influence over his countrymen not extending to the 

 natives at the river, frefh accounts of their violence were received. 

 They attacked a man who had been allowed to ply with a paffage- 

 boat between the port of Sydney and the river, and wounded him (it 

 was feared mortally) ; and they were beginning again to annoy the 

 fettlers there. 



Notwithftanding the reward offered for apprehending Black Csefar, 

 he remained at large ; and fcarcely a morning arrived without a com- 

 plaint being made to the magiftrates of a lofs of property fuppofed to 

 have been occafioned by him. In facl, every theft that was commit- 

 ted was afcribed to him or fome of the vagabonds who were in the 

 woods, the number of whom at this time amounted to fix or eight. 



On the nth of February an addition of two hundred and thirty- 

 three male and female convi&s was given to the fettlements by the 

 arrival of the Marquis Cornwallis tranfport from Ireland. This 

 veffel was commanded by Mr, Michael Hogan, from whom it was 

 learned, that a confpiracy had been formed to take the fhip from him ; 

 but, the circumftances of it being happily difclofed in time, he was 

 enabled to prevent it ; and, having fufficient evidence of the exiftence 

 of the confpiracy, he caufed the principals of thofe concerned to 

 be feverely punifhed, firft taking the opinions of all the free people 

 who were on board. A military guard, confifting of two fubalterns 

 and a proportionate number of privates of the New South Wales corps 

 (principally drafts from other regiments), was embarked in his fhip. 

 The prifoners were in general healthy ; but fome of thofe who had 

 been punifhed were not quite recovered, and on landing were fent to 

 the hofpital. It appeared, that the men were for the mod part of the 

 defcription of people termed Defenders, defperate, and ripe for any 



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