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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.

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