33 o ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [August, 



natives to the northward. On their reporting this at Sydney, the un- 

 fortunate female was conjectured to be Mary Morgan, a prifoner, who 

 it was now faid had failed in her attempt tt> get on board the Refol'u- 

 tion ftorefhip, which failed in 1794. There was indeed another wo r 

 man, who ran away a few days after the firft fettling in Sydney, 

 and whofe fate was not afcertained ; if fhe could have furvived "the 

 hardfhips and wretchednefs of fuch a life as mud have been her's^dur- 

 ing fo many years refidence among the natives of New Holland, how 

 much information muft it have been in her power to afford ! .but hu- 

 manity fhuddered at the idea of purchafing it at fuch a price. 



Early in Auguft John Fenlow was tried for the wilful murder of his 

 fervant, David Lane. The charge being fully made out, the prifoner 

 received fentence to die ; and on the following Saturday was executed, 

 his body being delivered to the furgeons for diffe&ion, purfuant to his 

 fentence. The night before his execution, he conferled that the mur- 

 der which he committed had been premeditated. It could fcarcely be 

 fuppofed, that among the defcription of people of which the lower 

 clafs was formed in New South Wales, any would have been found 

 fufficiently curious to have attended the furgeons on fuch an occafion ; 

 but they had no fooner fignified that a body was ready for infpeclion^ 

 than the hofpital was filled with people, men women and children, to 

 the number of feveral hundred ; none of whom appeared moved with 

 pity for his fate, or in the lead degree admonifhed by the fad fpedtacle 

 before their eyes. 



On the 23d of Auguft the Grand Turk arrived from Bofton, after a 

 paffage of five months from that port. She was loaded with fpirits, 

 tobacco, wine, foap, iron, linfeed oil, broad-cloth, &c. &c. for the 

 market of Port Jackfon, Manilla, and Canton. 



In September a temporary church was opened at Parramatta. De- 

 cent places of worihip were now to be feen at the two principal fettle- 

 ments. At the time when Sydney was vifited by the Spanifh mips 

 the clergyman preached wherever he could find a fhady fpot. The 

 prieft belonging to the commodore's ihip, on obferving that there 



was 



