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and banifhed to an ifland in the middle of the bar- ^^^-f^^' 
bour, received a full pardon, and were fent for to bear '■^ — 
their part in the general exultation. The Governor, in 
his letters, with that humanit}^ which fo ftrongly diilin- 
guillies his charader, fays, he trufts that on this day 
there was not a llngle heavy heart in this part of his 
Majefiiy's dominions. Flis own honfe was the centre of 
conviviality to all vv^ho could be admitted to that fociety, 
nor was any tbine nepiedied which in fuch a lituation. 
could mark a day of celebrity, confidently with pro- . 
priety and good order. Perhaps no birth-day was ever 
celebrated in more places, or more remote from each 
other, than that of his Majefly on this day, , - - 
It was now, it feems, firft generaUy known, that the 
name of Cumberland County had been given by the 
Governor to this part of the territory. This name had 
been fixed before the afiembling of the firft courts, for 
the fake of preferving regularity in the form of the pub- 
lic a6ts, in which it is ufual to name the county. The 
boundaries fixed for Cumberland County were, on the 
weft, Carmarthen and Lanfdown Hills : on the north, 
the northern parts cf Broken Bay ; and to the fouthward, 
the fouthern parts of Botany Bay. Thus including com- .-' - 
pletely thefe three principal bays, and leaving the chief 
place of fettlement at Sydney Gove nearly in the centre. 
