NEW SOUTH WALES,' 
plain to them the friendly difpofition of Governor Phil- 
lip and his people towards them, and to make them un- 
derftand, that the men from whom they receive occafionai 
injuries, are already a difgraced clafs, and liable to fevere 
puniiliment for fiich proceedings, they will then perhaps 
acquire fufficient confidence in their new countrymen to 
mix with them, to enrich themfelves wi.h fome of their 
implements, and to learn and adopt foroe of the moft 
ufeful and neceffary of their arts. It. may, indeed, ad- 
mit of a doubt whether many of the accommodations of 
civilized life, be not more than counterbalanced by the 
artificial wants to which they give birth ; but ic is un- 
deniably certain that to teach the Ihivering favage how 
to clothe his body, and to flielter himfelf completely 
from the cold and wet, and to put into the hands of 
men, ready to perifn for one half of the year with hun- 
ger, the means of procurmg conftant and abundant pro- 
vifion, muft be to confer upon them benefits of the 
higheit value and importance^ 
According to the lateil advices from Governor Phillipj, 
the Sirius failed for the Gape on the 2d of Odcpher^ 
1788, to purchafe grain, flour, and other necelTaries. 
Live fTOck was not to be procured by this fliip, as being 
lefs wanted in the prefent ftate of the fettlement, whicli 
had provifions in flore for eighteen months, but not 
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