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Title: A Sequel To A Voyage to Botany Bay Author: George Barrington * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No.: 0607431h.html Language: English Date first posted: September 2006 Date most recently updated: September 2006 This eBook was produced by: Richard Scott Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editions which are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright notice is included. We do NOT keep any eBooks in compliance with a particular paper edition. Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this file. This eBook is made available at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg of Australia License which may be viewed online at http://gutenberg.net.au/licence.html To contact Project Gutenberg of Australia go to http://gutenberg.net.auGO TO Project Gutenberg of Australia HOME PAGE
PRICES of the various ARTICLES of STOCK, PROVISIONS, EUROPEAN COMMODITIES, & c. in the Colony at New South Wales. £. s. d. Cows 80 0 0 Horses 90 0 0 Sheep (Cape) 7 10 0 Ewes 7 7 0 Goats (Milch) 4 4 0 Kids 1 1 0 He-Goats 3 0 0 Breeding Sows 5 0 0 Sucking Pig 0 8 0 Grown Hog 3 10 0 Turkeys 1 1 0 Ducks, per couple 0 10 0 Geese 1 1 0 Laying Hens 0 5 0 Full grown Fowls 0 5 0 Chickens, per couple 0 2 6 Eggs, per dozen 0 2 0 Fresh Pork, per pound 0 1 3 Mutton 0 2 0 Goat 0 1 6 Kangaroo 0 0 4 Fish 0 0 3 Salt Pork 0 1 0 Salt Beef 0 0 8 Hams 0 1 6 Bacon 0 1 0 Butter 0 3 0 Cheese 0 3 3 Potatoes 0 0 6 Flour, per pound 0 0 7 Wheat, per bushel 0 12 0 Barley 0 10 0 Pease 0 7 0 GROCERIES. Green Tea 0 16 0 Loaf Sugar 0 2 6 Moist ditto 0 1 6 Coarse ditto 0 1 0 Coffee 0 2 0 Pepper 0 4 0 Ginger 0 3 0 Vinegar, per gallon 0 6 0 Soap, per pound 0 2 0 WINE, SPIRITS, & c. Jamaica Rum, per gallon 1 8 0 American ditto 0 18 0 Coniac Brandy 1 4 0 Cape Brandy 0 18 0 Cherry Brandy,per bottle 0 6 0 Red Port, per dozen 3 0 0 Madeira 3 12 0 Porter 1 16 0 Gin, per bottle 0 4 0 Colony Beer, per gallon 0 6 0 ENGLISH GOODS Black Hats, from 15s. to 40s. Shoes, from 9s. to 13s. Boots, from 2ls. to 3ls. Cotton Stockings, from 6s. to 12s. HARDWARE, CUTLERY, STATIONERY, AND HABERDASHERY WARES, PRODUCE A PROFIT OF FROM ONE TO TWO HUNDRED PER CENT, AND FREQUENTLY MUCH MORE. THE FOLLOWING PRICES WERE PAID FOR LABOUR. A carpenter, for a day's work 05 0 Labourer, ditto 03 0 Clearing an acre of ground 30 0 Threshing a bushel of wheat 01 6 Reaping an acre of wheat 0 10 0 Price of land, per acre, from 12s. to 1 0 0 Making a pair of men's shoes 0 3 0 Making a pair of women's ditto 0 3 6 Making a coat 0 6 0 Making a gown 0 5 0 Washing each article, 0 0 6 Washer women, per day 0 1 3 AN OFFICIAL REGISTER OF THE CRIMES, TRIALS, AND EXECUTIONS OF THE CONVICTS IN NEW SOUTH WALES FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE COLONY TIME PRISONERS' NAMES CRIME SENTENCE February 1788 [1] James Barrett Robbing the Stores Death [2] James Freeman Ditto Ditto May 1st James Bennet a youth of 17 Burglary Death November Four Soldiers Manslaughter Two hundred lashes each December [3] James Dailey Housebreaking Death January 1789 ---- Ruglass Stabbing Seven hundred lashes March [4] Six Soldiers Robbing the Stores Death August 1789 [5] Daniel Gordon Robbery Acquitted September 1789[6] Henry Wright Rape Death November [7] Ann Davis,alias Judith Jones Housebreaking Ditto May 1790 A Soldier, (centinel) Garden Robbery Five hundred lashes August Hugh Lowe Sheep Stealing Death October William Harris Housebreaking Ditto July 1791 Edward Wildblood Ditto Ditto John Chapman Burglary Ditto Joseph Hatton Receiving stolen gds. Eight hundred lashes February 1792 James Collington Housebreaking Death September [8] Benjamin Ingram Ditto Ditto September 1792 William Godfrey Privately Stealing Acquitted October Richard Sutton Housebreaking Ditto January 1793 Charles Gray Privately Stealing One hundred lashes March [9] William Ashford Ditto Three hundred lashes July [10] Samuel Wright Ditto Ditto December Charles Williams Housebreaking Acquitted John Bevan Ditto Dito John Crow Ditto Death July 1794 John Fleming Ditto Ditto Archibald Macdonald Ditto Ditto John Bevan Ditto Acquitted October Ditto Ditto Death ---- Hill Murder Death April 1795 [11] John Anderson Rape Five hundred lashes April 1795 Joseph Marshall Rape Five hundred lashes John Hyams Ditto Three hundred lashes Joseph Dunstall Ditto Ditto Richard Watson Ditto Ditto Morgan Bryan Ditto Five hundred lashes [12] John Raynor Burglary Death July Mary Pawson Arson Acquitted James Barry Housebreaking One thousand lashes November Samuel Chinnery Robbing his master Acquitted ---- Merchant, alias Jones Rape One thousand lashes ---- Ladley Ditto Ditto November 1795 ---- Everit Rape Eight hundred ditto ---- Smith Housebreaking Death [13] Abraham Whitehouse Ditto Ditto William Britton Housebreaking Acquitted February 1796 John Reid Ditto Ditto Caesar Runaway Shot in the woods [14] James Macarthy Forgery Death April James Ashford Privately Stealing Transported to Norfolk Island George Hyson Attemptg. Beastiality Pilloried thrice [15] David Lloyd Murder Six hundred lashes August John Fenlow Ditto Death 1. This was the first man that was punished with death; his confederates were pardoned on condition of being transported to Norfolk Island. 2. Pardoned on condition of becoming the publick executioner of the colony. 3. The impostor, who pretended that he had discovered a gold mine; See part I. 4. This was a robbery of a most serious nature.--The safety of the provisions was an object of the greatest consequence. One morning as the commissary went to inspect the store, he found a key broken in the lock that secured the principal door. On entering the storehouse he found that it had been plundered of various articles. It was suggested that the broken key might lead to the detection of the offenders,--a smith, to whom it was sent, recognised his workmanship, and declared that he had made it for one Hunt, a soldier. He was accordingly apprehended, but as it was supposed there were several accomplices, he was admitted an evidence for the crown. He accused six other soldiers of being concerned in depredations on the stores for some months past: in liquors and provisions to a large amount.--They had sworn by the most sacred oaths to be faithful to each other; They had agreed that when either of them should be placed centinel at the store, some of the gang, during the night, were to let themselves into the store, and take away as much of the stores as they could. When the patrol went his rounds to visit the store, he found it in a state of apparent security, and the centinel careful and attentive to his duty. Unfortunately for them, the night preceding the discovery, one of the party intended while he was centinel to have paid a visit to the provisions unknown to his associates. While he was in the act of unlocking the door, he heard the patroll coming. In attempting to turn the key again he over-shot the lock; being unable to extricate the key he broke it short off, and the wards were found as before mentioned. On his information the six soldiers were taken into custody, and the fact being clearly proved, they were all found guilty, and executed. 5. This man appearing on his trial to be labouring under a mental derangement he was accordingly acquitted. It was afterwards notorious that he had artfully feigned madness, in order to screen himself from punishment. He gained great credit among his companions for the dexterity with which he play'd his part.--He was a notorious charácter, continually in one scrape or another; and was reprieved under the gallows in England. 6. He was recommended by the court for mercy, and was transported to Norfolk Island 7. She pleaded pregnancy, but undergoing an examination by a jury of twelve of the discreetest women in the colony, they brought a verdict in the negative, and she was executed pursuant to her sentence. 8. This man was reprieved upon condition of residing for life on Norfolk Island. 9. Pardoned on account of his youth, being only sixteen. 10. Pardoned, being only fourteen. 11. This was a most infamous transaction, six ruffians brutally attacking a single woman. 12. Raynor was included in an act of grace, and received a pardon on the arrival of governor Hunter. 13. Some favourable circumstances appearing in his behalf after the trial, he was reprieved. 14. There were eight wretches tried for this brutal attack on one woman, five of whom, the evidence being rather defective, escaped punishment. The difficulty of bringing the people to give evidence against each other was insurmountable, and by far the greater part of the acquittals were occasioned by a wilful suppression of evidence. Received a pardon on the condition of being transported to Norfolk Island. 15. He was indicted for murder, but the court adjudged him guilty of manslaughter only. Numberless trifling offences were daily committed, but it would have been an endless task to have brough every one to trial; petty offenders generally underwent a summary examination, and, if found guilty, they were punished on the spot. Printed by C. Lowndes, Drury-Lane.