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ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [October,. 



CHAP. XVII. 



REGULATIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE GOVERNOR. A MAN FOUND* 



DEAD. — A WOMAN MURDERED. CHARACTER OF THE SETTLERS AT THE 



RIVER.— HOUSES NUMBERED AT SYDNEY. — BENNILLONG CLAIMS PRO- 

 TECTION FROM THE GOVERNOR. WEATHER IN OCTOBER. — TWO VIC- 

 TUALLERS ARRIVE FROM ENGLAND. — CIVIL APPOINTMENT. A CRIMI- 

 NAL COURT HELD. EXECUTIONS. — ONE MAN HUNG IN CHAINS. EFFECT 



OF THIS UPON THE NATIVES. A GENERAL MUSTER. REGULATIONS. 



A NATIVE GIRL MURDERED. WEATHER. THE GOVERNOR VISITS RICH- 

 MOND HILL. HIS TRANSACTIONS TFIERE. A STACK OF WHEAT BURNT. 



THE CLERGYMAN'S ATTENTION TO THE CHILDREN. THE GOVERNOR 



GOES TO BOTANY BAY. GEORGE'S RIVER. LIGHTNING AND ITS EFFECTS. 



THE NATIVES. — WEATHER. — NUMBER OF MEN NOT VICTUALLED BY GO- 

 VERNMENT WHO HAD BEEN CONVICTS. AN EXTRAORDINARY THEFT. 



COURT OF CRIMINAL JUDICATURE TWICE HELD. ONE MAN SUFFERED 



DEATH. — THE NATIVES ATTACK THE SETTLERS. — WEATHER. 



r T^HE very flattering reception which the preceding account of the 

 » Englifh Colony in New South Wales had experienced from a 

 candid and liberal public, induced the Author to continue his labours 

 in the character of its hiftorian ; having been favoured with materials 

 for the purpofe, on the authenticity of which he could fafely flake 

 his credit. 



In a fettle merit which was {till in a great meafure dependant upon 

 the mother country for food, it might have been fuppofed that the con- 

 victs would have endeavoured by their own induftry to have increa- 

 fed, rather than by robbery and fraud to have lerTened, the means of 

 their fupport ; but far too many of them were moft incorrigibly flagi- 

 tious, which determined the Governor to proceed with activity in 

 rectifying the abufes that had imperceptibly crept into the colony. 

 According to this plan, he began by arranging the mufter lifts that 



had 



