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SYDNEY          

   

On Monday last the reaping at Hawkes- bury became general, as well on the private as the Government Grounds at Cornwallis Place. All the other settlements are in equal forwardness ; and the present in considered as

luxuriant as any former harvest whatsoe-

ver.                    

Information was last- week received from

Hunter's River, that a sawyers in private employ, procuring Cedar at a distance from King's Town had been severely beaten by a body of natives, whom they had very imprudently allowed to get possession of

their arms.

The last week's advertisement of Messrs. Kable and Underwood will, it is to be ear- nestly hoped, answer the desired end of bringing to justice the faithless and depraved miscreants, who, to the most unpardonable         treachery in infracting a solemn engagement have basely added an act of felony : exposing their distant employers thereby to certain da- mage, the possible extent of which cannot be  

ascertained.  

The persons whose names with rewards for their apprehension annexed are stated in the above advertisement, were severally arti- cled, by their own free will and consent, to serve in the sealing trade among the islands in Bass's Straits-a trade that has already furnished a resource by no means inconsidera-  

ble ; and which bids fair to gild the prospect of our future wealth, and long to stand a profitable nursery, to train and give employ- ment to our rising Youth.      

The flattering countenance, the fostering and liberal protection by Government affor- ded to this still tender branch of dawning commerce, has excited emulation, and patro- nized the exertion necessary to extend it : The benefits derived from it are not confined to the owners alone who fit out for the em- ploy, but are general ; and in proportion to their successes are the general interests af- fected. Must we not then sympathize at their losses, and glow with indignation when those losses are not dispensed by Providence, but the result of human perfidy against which it is almost impossible to guard ?

The deĆ®iberate and determined villany of   the principal offender, Pawson, though it excite contempt, lays equal claim to the de-

testation and abhorrence of a man who could

thus meanly betray a trust at first reposed in him from a high opinion of his integrity, but latterly from motives of humanity alone,   as he had, by a former breach, incurred some censure, and even a slight suspicion of his honour. Gratitude to his employers might   have influenced him to a very different con- duct : but this is, alas ! an incompetent and slender tye, that sometimes hangs' upon the

suppliants lips but exhaled from thence by prosperity's early dawn, flies off in empty

vapour, and rarely finds its way into the heart !          

It must also be remarked, that to the prin- ciples of a commander who bears the ensign

of a just and honourable Power, little credit

can be derived from the lawless exercise of an authority over the subjects of a nation in perfect amity with his own - or in defiance of the solemn engagement universally known to subsist between the mariner and owner, to decoy, or even to admit among his crew a set of runaways, who from a notion of tempo- rary security, could by a glaring act of felony b.and themselves with lasting reproach and infamy: if such really be the case, he must certainly have been governed by a lunar im- pulse ; and with returning reason he must for     his own security be alarmed.

Little doubt is admissible, however, that the tread of justice will overtake the perhaps already discarded miscreants, whose persecu- tion they have themselves determined.

A dog, whose sad mischance it was, in   person strongly to resemble the mischievous   native animal, was Last week shot dead at Parramatta, owing to the mistaken notion entertained of his pedigree. He was a pro- digious favourite with his master, who in token of the very high estimation in which he held him, could devise for him no single appellative more pure and precious than that   of Brandy. So choice a spirit was certainly deserving of a better fate ; but detraction, which seldom loses sight of any imperfec- tion, subsequently declares his principles to have been shamefully adulterated by a neg-   lected education, which paved the way to many a vicious habit ; and unfortunately for the memory cr the deceased, the suspicion oi his immorality is strengthened considerably by the ill-natured report, that since the spirit of this immaculate Brandy has evaporated, ducks, geese, and turkies retire to their pil- low without the apprehension of a midnight

summons.

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