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Account of 
It would be interesting: to observe how men in the 
case of the mutineers or pirates of the Cyprus would con¬ 
duct themselves in their new situation of free mariners; 
and were we not afraid of swelling out our pages to an 
unreasonable size, we should here give the narrative of one 
of the party; but we must content ourselves with 
observing, that the narrator Denner was lately at Port 
Arthur, whilst his quondam captain, Swallow, died at 
the same place. 
Of the thirty-one prisoners embarked on board the 
Cyprus , thirteen were landed at Recherche Bay, who 
would not join the pirates; seven men were left at the 
Friendly Islands*: of these two were taken and brought 
to Hobart Town,—one being sentenced to death, the other 
sent for life to Norfolk Island. One was drowned. Seven 
were sent to England from different parts of China. Of 
these, two received sentence of death, four were returned 
to the Colonies, and one liberated for want of evidence. 
Three shipped on board American vessels. 
We will now return to Macquarie Harbour : no event 
of moment occurred until December, 1831, when a new 
Commandant arrived, Brevet Major Bailey, of the 63rd 
regiment, who was the last military officer at that set¬ 
tlement. 
Various causes existed to render Macquarie Harbour 
no longer eligible for a penal settlement. In the first 
place, the difficulty of communication with head-quarters 
subjected both the settlement and the government to 
great inconvenience in cases of reference: the uncertainty 
in the transmission of supplies was also attended with 
serious disadvantages; besides which, Port Arthur seemed 
to offer all the favourable circumstances connected with 
Macquarie Harbour without the same drawbacks. The 
Government determined to abandon the settlement, and 
accordingly in November, 1833, orders were received to 
