VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. 
throat blue ; lower part of the neck and breaft red ; as are 
the rump and vent ; the middle of the belly dufky green ; 
tail dark blue, fringed with chefnut ; fhoulders blue j the 
reft of the wing the fame, but darker ; bill and legs as 
in the male. 
24th. The governor revoked the decree by which Corbett 
was outlawed, and he was tried by the criminal court, 
fimply for the theft he had committed, and fentenced to be 
hanged. Samuel Payton, a convi6V, likewife received the 
fame fentence, for felonioufly entering the marquee of Lieu- 
tenant Fuzer, on the night of the fourth of June, and fteal- 
ing from thence fome fhirts, ftockings, and combs. His 
trial had been put off to the prefent time, on account of a 
wound in his head, which he had received from Captain Lieu- 
tenant Meredith, who, on his return from the bonfire, found 
Payton in his marquee. When brought to the hofpital, in 
confequence of the wound which he had received, he was 
perfedly fenfelefs. During the time he remained under my 
care, I frequently admoniflied him to think of the perilous 
fituation he then ftood in, and to make known the accom-- 
plices whom he was fuppofed to have ; but he firmly and 
uniformly denied his guilt ; and difclaimed his having any 
knowledge 
