VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
26th. About four in the afternoon a flio-ht fliock of 
an earthquake was felt at Sidney Cove, and its environs. 
This incident had fo wonderful an effed on Edward Corbett, 
a convi^:, who had eloped about three weeks before, on a 
difcovery being made of his having ftolen a frock, that he 
returned and gave himfelf up to juftice. A few days ante- 
cedent to his return, he had been outlav/ed ; and was fup- 
pofed to have driven off with him four cows, the only 
animals of this kind in the colony. This, however, he 
declared himfelf innocent of ; but confeffed his having com- 
mitted the theft laid to his charge. The flrideft fearch 
was made, but in vain, after the cows. It is probable 
that they have flrayed fo far off in this endlefs wild, as to 
be irrecoverably loft. Previoufly to the return of Corbett 
he muft have fuffered very feverely from hunger ; his eyes 
were funk into his head, and his whole appearance fhewed. 
that he had been half ftarved. While he was abfent, he 
fays, he frequently fell in with the natives, who, though 
they never treated him ill, did not feem to like his com- 
pany. He informed us, that in a bay adjacent to that 
where the governor and his party had met with fo many of 
the natives, he faw the head of one of the convidls lying near 
the 
