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The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803-1842) (about)
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SYDNEY
How grateful to sensibility it is, to witness with the approach to maturity of our Colonial youth, the accompanying promise of an asy- lum, reared by the arts within the limits of their native hemisphere ! Here imagination, tired with its wanderings in the maze of an- xious doubt, perches delighted on the wel- come theme, and hails the Guardian Power that bids the prospect rise.
The inclination to train the juvenile or-
ders of society in laudable pursuits beggars encomium,and claims the wreath of universal acquiescence.
The intention signified by Messrs. Kable and Underwood of receiving under their pro- tection a number of Boys of different ages will, it may be hoped, as it is designed to promote industry, and secure youth fron fa- tal indolence, be considered an example wor- thy to be imitated. On useful labour depends alone their future welfare ; and who would delay the patriotic aid necessary to promote so genuine and excellent an object ?
Three or the Union's people who accom- panied Capt. Pendleton and Mr. Boston on shore at Tongataboo, and are too plausibly conjectured to have fallen victims to the treachery of the natives, were stout, able young men, shipped at Norfolk Island ; the names of whom were Edward Davis, Thos. Aplin, and Alexander Major.
Another wood-boat sunk off Dawes's Point on Tuesday last, owing to her being overburthened ; and one of the people in her was with difficulty saved. From the numerous cautions of this kind that pass un- heeded it may almost. be inferred, that the persons who thus imprudently set their lives upon a cast of chance prognosticate another destiny, and arc but little apprehensive of
being drowned.
The settler who was some time since con-
jectured to have made an aƫtherial tour under the guidance and protection of an uncouth
inhabitant of some romantic region, person- ally requests us to intimate to those whom curiosity had interested in his safety, that he has returned from an excursion upon which the volatile pleasantry of a particular ac- quaintance had facetiously embarked him.
In addition to the article contained in the
preceding page relative to the prevalency of fires at the present season, we are much
concerned to state the very serious loss suf- tained by Mr, Robert Forrester, settler of Hawkesbury, at the commencement of the week-that of his standing crop being total- ly consumed : Yet we are happy to add, that by the timely exertions of the surround- ing settlers, the mischief was prevented from extending further.
A number of labourers had been employed in clearing and burning off a back ground contiguous to the cultivated lands of the above sufferer, for the reception of maize ; and during the absence of these men at their dinner hour, the fire unfortunately commu- nicated with a wheat field through the grass, or owing probably to a high wind springing up, by which some sparks were carried in that
direction.
The disaster was discovered almost on its
first appearance, by Mr. Thompson at the Green Hills, about a mile distant : he gave an instant alarm, and followed by all the inhabitants in that quarter, pressed forward to render every possible aid.
Posting themselves advantageously, the flames ware happily prevented from extend- ing across a public road which separated that from an adjacent ground, preventing thereby from being totally laid waste the whole ex-
tensive tract of cultivated ground at the Green Hills, and the rich and valuable Go- vernment lands at Cornwallis Place.
Successful in the accomplishment of this monentous object, their joint efforts in sub-
duing the flame altogether in a short time proved effectual. Notwithstanding every possible precaution and exertion, however, the fire was perceived to have reached the skirts of Chalker's farm ; where Mrs. Chal- ker, in a resolute attempt to resist its ravage, was herself severely burnt : but by the aid timely afforded, the damage done to the
wheat was inconsiderable.
The detestation in which the memory of the incendiary whose name must ever render
remarkable the 5th of November, was here strongfy marked on Monday last, and was,
we believe, the first Australian Fete in com- memoration of his impiety. A patriot crowd composed of boys from three to seven years or more, formed a cavalcade, to exhibit and assist the execution of Guy Vaux's represen- tative ; but with such aversion did the little multitude regard the object of disgust, that, impatient of his crimes, and irritated, by the unmoved muscles of the culprit's countenance, a hundred willing hands were offered to rid the world of such a hardened, unrepenting sin- ner. Vengeance, unable longer to brook delay, the whole procession before dark clo- sed at once upon the criminal, who in an
instant was torn limb from limb, and thus ex- piated his offence.