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Sydney.

On Saturday the 2d inst. the Provost Marshall    went with an inquest to Garden Island   in consequence of a Native being shot the

preceeding evening, while plundering the   grounds of Captain Scott, at that place. After a very minute investigation of the circumstance   and its antecedent causes, the Jury   brought in a verdict " Justifiable Homicide." The canoe of the deceased was found to be full of maize, melons, &c. taken out of the above grounds ; and although several others had assisted in the depredation, yet upon the

appearance of Captain Scott's servants, they  

leaped into the water, and got clear off. It     also appeared, we are sorry to say, that several    white men were among the natives,     who, there is every reason to suspect, had   assisted and encouraged them in this delinquency, but who then also escaped apprehension.   A fishing-boat was found near to the   native's canoe, which, as it appeared without an owner, was confiscated to the public use.

Some of the natives have since named the white men, who assisted them in the maraud ; and although such evidence may not be resorted to, yet the police are determined to   use every vigilant exertion to bring them to justice, upon the first misdemeanor in which they may hereafter be implicated.

The week before last a quantity of wet   linen was stolen out of the Garden of Wm.

Chapman near the wharf, which had been hung to dry; diligent search and enquiry

were made after the articles, which were   numerous, but to no purpose, until Saturday the 2d instant, when some, part of it was found in the boat mentioned in the preceding paragraph, to be lying near to the native's     canoe at Garden Island.     

A quantity of the timber mentioned in our last, has been received on board the Glatton       during the last week, and every expedition   is used in compleating the complement   intended to be shipped for England.  

On Tuesday last the house lately occupied by J. Kenny, on the Rocks, was put up to auction, (agreeable to an advertisement con tained in our last) and sold for the sum of

112l. sterling .

On Wednesday 10 prisoners who were capitally convicted at the last Criminal Court   were respited by His Excellency, on condition of their becoming Transports for Life.  

Last week two men were corporally punished for repeated insolence to their master,   and absenting themselves from their employ without permission.

A peach tree in the garden of H. Kable is now in blossom, a phenomenon worthy the observation of the curious.  

We know of nothing that can be deemed   more prejudicial to Civil society, than a desire to soar above the region to which our   circumstances ought to limit us. If theoretical speculists would turn to the excellent   fable, " the frog and the ox," they would doubtless escape the incumbrances which   necessarily result from their pride of swelling and the midway prove to be the easiest and   best calculated to their own interests; and if     a man elevated at the prospect of GETTING A BARGAIN, would first enquire whether it might not in the end turn out to be a DEAR bought purchase, perhaps at the expence

of his whole future comfort, not to say a much

greater sacrifice, he would doubtless suppress   the chemerical plan of aeriel castle-building in its infancy, and congratulate himself when

others fall, with the conviction, that one    penny honestly obtained, is a greater treasure   than would the mines of Mexico, at the   cut in expence of that wretchedness which   ever falls upon the thoughtless and extravagant.  

It must afford peculiar pleasure to ever contemplative mind, to trace science, and the arts, gradually opening upon Civil society and polishing and improving those remote parts of the habitable world, which, but for the bold and adventurous genius of discovery, might, to the end of time, have remained   a wild and ruthless waste. Here, anticipating     fancy dwells with delight upon the   scene which shall one day be occupied with busy commerce, and her sister arts, while there she beholds edifices and warehouse arise, to invite the sons of merchandize and traffic from the further corners of the Globe.

May this apply to New South Wales, and Sydney be the mart to realize the flattering   image !

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