33 2 



ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [September, 



Salt ■provifions and grain in {lore: 



To laft at the eftablifhed Ration. 

 Quality. Weeks. Days. 



Beef, - - - - 311 



Pork, - - - - - - 44 6 



Total of fait meat 76 o 



Peafe, 2 20 



Wheat, - - - - 29 1 



Maize, 4 1 4 



Sugar, - - - - -40 

 To confume this quantity of food, there were victualled 



Perfons. 



At Sydney, - - - - 2219 

 At Parramatta, - 965 

 At the Hawkefbury, - 454 



Making a total of 3638 

 There were 321 people off the public ftores ; which, added to the 

 3638 who were victualled, gave a general total of 3959 perfons in the 

 different fettlements, of all defcriptions and ages; not including thofe 

 at Norfolk Ifland, in which fettlement were 889 perfons. To which 

 add 3959 perfons, in New South Wales, there will be found 4848 

 perfons under the Britifh government, in New South Wales, and its 

 dependencies. 



A few days previous to the failing of the fhips, information was re- 

 ceived of a mod inhuman murder having been perpetrated on the body 

 of a fettler's wife, at the diftricT: of the Ponds. A female neighbour 

 was accufed by an accomplice of having committed this diabolical act, 

 for the purpofe of enriching herfelf with the property which me 

 knew this unfortunate woman had in her houfe. She was imme- 

 diately apprehended, and fome part of the money found upon her, 

 which left little doubt but the avenging arm of juftice would foon fall 

 upon her head. 



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