3 1 4 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [February, 



fcheme from which danger and deftruaion were likely to enfue. The 

 women were of the fame complexion, and their ingenuity and cruelty 

 were difplayed in the part that they were to take in the purpofed in- 

 furre&ion ; which was, the preparing of pulverifed glafs to mix with 

 the flower, of which the feamen were to make their puddings. What 

 an importation ! 



The Marquis Cornwallis had flopped at the ifland of St. Helena and 

 the Cape of Good Hope. From the latter of which places they brought 

 the pleating intelligence of its having furrendered to his Majefty's 

 arms, and being in poffeffion of the Englifh. General Craig, the com- 

 mander in chief on more, and Commodore Blankett, each fent an of- 

 ficial communication of this important circumftance to Governor 

 Hunter, and ftated their defire to aflift in any thing that might be 

 of fervice to the fettlement, when the feafon mould offer for fending 

 the mips under his orders to the Cape of Good Hope for fupplies. 



The gentlemen of the fettlement heard with infinite regret of the 

 death of Colonel Gordon, whofe attentions to the colony, at every op- 

 portunity that prefented itfelf, could never be forgotten. He was in- 

 deed a favoured fon of fcience, and liberally extended the advantages 

 which that fcience gave him, wherever he thought they could promote 

 the welfare of his fellow-creatures. 



On the 1 5th a criminal court had met for the trial of two prifoners 

 for a burglary, when information was received, that Black C^far 

 had that morning been mot by one Wimbow. This man and another, 

 allured by the reward, had been for fome days in queft of him. Find- 

 ing his haunt, they concealed themfelves all night at the edge of a brum* 

 which they had perceived him enter in the dufk of the evening. 

 In the morning he came out ; when, looking round him and feeing 

 his danger, he prefented his muiket ; but before he could pull the 

 trigger Wimbow fired and (hot him, and he died in a few hours. Thus 

 ended a man, v/ho certainly, during his life, could never have been 

 eftimated at more than one remove above the brute, and who had 

 given more trouble than any other convict in the fettlement. 



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