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■ \ /HEW SOUTH WALES.The Atlantick tranfport, which has lately arrived from New South Wales, with his Excellency Governour s Philip, brought alfo Lieutenant Pokier, Dayey, and Timins of the Marines^ with the remainder of that corps, which ; bad been left In the country after an abfence of j fix years. The Atlantick'left Port Jackfon the j 11 th of December, and came by the way of i Cape Korn. In thofe feas they met with a i great deal of Ice. At Rio Janeiro they Hope i for three weeks,, and the day before they made ; the Lands-end, were chafed by a French privateer, | which atday-break was within two miles of them ; ! but the (hip being a lingular good taller fortunately efcapedtfWhen the Atlantick left New South Wales, : the Colony was in a *moft promifmg Hate, upwards of 1500 acres were in the higheft cultivation: a fpecimen of the wheat and barley., which his Excellency Gen. Philip has brought home, equals any in England; the Indian corn was expelled to be fo productive, as to remove any apprehen-fions of a fcarcity in future. The hogs and poultry exceed the molt fanguine well-wiiher^s conception* The induftrious part of the convidh have them in fuch abundance, that, by felling them to the {hipping and garrifon they are not only enabled to iupply themfelves with any European articles they fancy, but realize a fum that mult appear aftcniftring.Siddaway, formerly a Convidt, but whom for his good behavidur, the Govemour emancipated, has actually 500I. part of which he has lent to the Cape of Good Hope in the Britannia, Captain Raver, for goods.Stcckdale, a Convidt, has remitted fome time fince iool. to his mother. Parr, a Settler, offered a Captain Bond, of the Royal Admiral Eall Indiaman, one hundred guineas for the paf-fage of his wife in that {hip to Europe, (he being infirm, and wilhing to fee her relations, before Ihe died. More infiances might be given of people poffefling fuch futns, were not thefe fup-pofed lufiicient —The thinking part of them feem fo fuily fenfible of the advantages of their fituation, that, on their time expiring, they immediately fettle _and it is only the diffoiute and diffipated that wifh to return to their old ' haunts and companions in wickednefs. They are healthy; thofe who died being in confequence of their ill-treatment in the (hips that brought them over. The falubrity of the air is fuch, that out of all the officers, both Civil and Military, whofe numbers amounted to more than fixty perfons, but one has died (Captain Shea) a circumftance fcarcely to be paralleled.Many more particulars are aflerted in favour of this new colony—but as the publick have alfo heard accounts of a different nature, it mav be prudent tojufpend our judgment as to the advantages which Great-Britain may ultimately reap from tliis infant fetdement; to which for the fake of humanity every one muff wifh well.
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London St James Chronicle or British Evening Post
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Jun 08, 1793
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