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SYDNEY
The Governor King, Messrs. Kable and Underwood owners, when she came last from Hunter's River, brought 58 logs of very fine Cedar, and a quantity of excellent Coal, which for the use of the forge is found su- perior to Charcoal, at the same time that it is attended with a saving of at least 200 percent. The above vessel is intended to go through a repair before she proceeds again to the Southward.
The following curious and extraordinary recital we copy from a Letter brought by the Union from Norfolk Island :
"On the 8th Instant, (Feb) a man was perceived floating on a raft, not less than two miles distant, from the appearance of whom much serious apprehension arose, lest he should be indicative of the loss of some vessel on the Coast. The sea running very high every attempt to render him assistance was impracticable until he approached the shore, almost exhausted. By the yet timely exertions of the Inhabitants he was then brought in and proved to be a man employ-
ed at Na..au Island, whither he had been
sent for slagitious practices, and accounted for his rash and extraordinary enterprise by his becoming apprehensive of a scarcity of water on the Island. His floating machine consisted of an old door with holes pierced to admit the Iegs through, he was eight hours performing the exploit, and declares he was nearly the whole time surrounded by sharks, through which he paddled in moment- ary expectation of falling a victim to the ingenuity of his contrivance, although mi- raculously he did escape their voracity.
"Hen. Wright was shortly since convicted of a violent assault upon an infant, and it being his third heinous offence received a se- vere corporal punishment, and a sentence of three years hard labour for the Crown, during the whole term to be exposed in the stocks for the space of two hours upon every Satur- day. Such is the nature of the crime, that
the miscreant is precluded from every hope of commiseration, and lives the objects of re- proach and scorn."
In consequesces of an inflammatory letter written by Thomas Brady being found on searching the papers of a strongly suspected character, His EXCELLENCY on Tuesday
last gave orders that the said Thomas Brady
should he brought before him to make, an-
swer to such interrogatories as might be put to him ; and as the terms and expressions
contained in the letter were of a virulent and
seditious tendency, the Offender was ordered into the custody of the Gaoler, and to receive a corporal punishment, His answers to His EXCELLENCY were generally impertinent, and his whole conduct grossly insolent and dis-
resprectful. Such are the characteristic outlines of the stubborn and inflexible Anarchist who
would establish his impious fabric upon the
ruins of Society and the subversion of all order
upon which its existence ever must depend.
On Wednesday an examination took place at Parramatta upon Joseph Holt, whereat several depositions were taken, which, with
other proceedings were transmitted to Syd- ney whither he was the same evening brought
in prisoner. The day following a full Bench assembled here for the purpose of examining the evidence in full and having gone through that of several persons, returned Satur- day morning at 10 o'clock, ... when the prisoner was remanded.
The energy and activity of the Settlers and other inhabitants of the Settlement of
Hawkesbury, in pursuing and apprehending the ill-advised and equally ill-disposed mis-
creants who fled towards the mountains in
wild and terrible despair, was hightly merito- rious and praiseworthy ; and the ardour with which they exerted themselves in the cause of Loyalty, while it gives an indisputable testi- mony of zeal and attachment to a much loved
MONARCH and a happy, envied Constination.,
will have some influence in deterring the rash, unprincipled, and deluded, from future efforts of intemperance and folly.
A respectable Inhabitant of Sydney some days since stepped forward in order to point out from among the Watch a person whose recent deportment had been such as to draw down strong suspicion of disaffection and dis- loyalty. The Accusation could not be com- batted, and he was accordingly dismissed from a duty, which he was with much propriety considered but ill adapted to perform.
The following ludicrous circumstance oc- curred during the late alarm :---An inhabi- tant of this part of the Colony as soon as he
heard the explosion of the gun, conceiving
his property more in danger than his person, gladly cast his eye upon a pair of half-worn boots suspended in his DINING ROOM, and
fondly imagining they might escape notice, deposited his treasure, amounting to four glit- tering guineas, in one of the pendant caskets, where it remained for several days. During an interval of absence, a stranger on a visit relative to business unfortunately became
enamoured of the boots, and professed him- self earnestly desirous of their purchase. With the same fatal eloquence by which the Ara- bian wheedled the mother of Aladdin out of his inestimable lamp, did this visitor succeed in purchasing the boots, which he instantly tried and took away with him, as the ma- tron of the house was unacquainted with their INTRINSIC value. Upon the return of her partner his emotion can scarcely be con- ceived when she pronounced that the depo- sitory of his whole treasure had been WELL disposed of. --- Alarm succeeded alarm, both
stood aghast, and domestic tranquility took
its departure with the boots.