The Sydney gazette and New South Wales advertiser/Volume 3/Number 112
THE
Sydney Gazette,
AND
NEW SOUTH WALES ADVERTISER
Published by Authority.
By Command of His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief.
General Orders.
The Harvest being safely got in, it is expected that those indebted to th Stores do ma e every exertion to pay their debts, by delivering Wheat or Barley into the Stores at Sydney, Hawkesbury, and Parramatta. Those who have been indebted prior to the 1st of January, 1803, will be allowed Eight Shillings per Bushel for Wheat; and to those become indebted since that period the following Prices will be allowed:
By Command of His Excellency,
G. Blaxcell, Acting Sec.
Government House, Sydney,
- Dec. 16, 1804.
Whereas, there is much reason to suspect that the Spanish Merchant Brig is hovering about this Coast, between Kent's Group and Jervis's Bay, in a distressed and leaky state: His Excellency directs, that no Private Colonial Vessel leaves this Port without the Owners giving Security to take no other Letter or Message whatever to the Person in Charge of that Vessel than a sealed Letter from the Governor, on pain of forfeiting the Penalty of 500£ sterling: But this is not to preclude their giving such assistance as the situation of the vessel may require; but on no account to furnish her with more provisions than are necessary to bring her to this port.—Any Merchant Ship that may sail from hence before the above Brig's arrival are enjoined to observe the above Order in its true sense and meaning.
By Command of His Excellency,
G. Blaxcell, Acting Sec.
Government House, Sydney, April 14,18 5
Commissary's Office, March 5, 1805.
Public Notice is hereby given, that Copper Coin will be received in Payment of Debts due to the Crown, or Swine's Flesh without Head or Feet, at seven pence per pound, into His Majesty's tores at Sydney, Hawkesbury, and Parramatta, to issue in lieu of salt meat, of which the Deputy Commissaries and Storekeepers are to have three days previous Notice.
Persons not indebted to the Crown, will ling to supply his Majesty's Stores with Pork salted in the Colony during the Months of June and July, are to give their sealed ten- ders to me on or before the 31st Instant, of the quantity they will furnish, the highest price not to exceed Seven pence per pound.
By Command of His Excellency,
J. Palmer, Commissary
Judge Advocate's Office, April 6
NOtice is hereby given, that no Processes whatever will be granted by the Court of Civil Jurisdiction during the present erm of Sitting, after the 27th of the present nstant, April, 1805.
Rd. Atkins, Judge Advocate.
CAPITAL INVESTMENT.
Now on Sale, at the Warehouse of 3. LORD, Sydney, at the lowest Prices.
The undermentioned Piece &c. Goods,viz. Muslins, plain and striped ; scarlet and green superfine broad cloth ; punjums, ifreas, nankeens, baffeties, Bengal prints and chintzes, cotton for lamps, pickles in cafes, &c. &c.
Also, sugar in bags at 71⁄2 per lb. for which prompt payment, to be made in copper currency, or dollars at 6s. each; and on purchase of a ton or upwards, at 6d. per lb. for immediate payment in cash or bills for prompt confolidation.
N. B. Purchasers to a large amount will be accomodated with a few months credit on approved security.
NOTICE.
LEtters of Administration to the Estate and Effects of the late Mr. Charles Webb is of Hawksbury, deceased, being granted by the Civil Court to Mrs. Eleanor Webb, widow of the deceased, all persons having any claims or demands on the said Estate (not yet presented concordant with the former Notice), are again requested to be furnished to George Howe, at Sydney, he being authorised to receive the same, within 28 days from the date hereof; as none will be admitted that are not presented within the term herein specified: And all and every such person or persons as remain indebted to the Estate of the Deceased are requested to settle their accounts as early as possible, in order to a final arrangement being made.
Hawksbury, April 5
ON SALE.
At the House of J, Driver, Chapel Row.
AT THE VERY LOWEST PRICES.
THE following Articles, lately laid in viz.
Green Hyfon Tea, and dut,.* comm-»", 8ug»r, pepper, and hlu^, ringliíh and indfa rliiwls, L'~ dies £¡ík hindicGrchiifs Ditto m ^ ii ; n, Packet hn ikcrc^iifa, pclicat Sec, [olia and Pricifti chiras» çs per vard anc upwards, iixc?llent Bengal prims I 2s per yard, retail 2 . 6 i. Long cloths diito di:caB i Caliches. Punjarns, S-irhies, Nankeen 7» oer pi<-C3 j Company1! dic^o i es. 6 í perde, sprigg'J muí!:«» j 3s 6i per ysrd, Fine Liiiadimiciei 5* per ditto, '? bnirrs of all kinds ready ma.de, Bonners »ni c Glo»k?, Lades cleg mt /«athen, ß ack and oiber '. Ribbands of »II cjIohi«!, Sir and finger lings and ¡drops. Miaras Cdîn ¡nek?, Ladies' gloves, Pins,
- necd.es, threads, ud-'s, oobbmg, fiiks &:, &c,
and Handfome faih rii>n.4nds of v.tiious colour*, , oniv is. per yird
j Alf o*, Black fatin Florentine, white and
brown Ifreas 2l. 5s. per piece, and blue chintz furniture patterns 123. per ditto.
~T ON SALE,
At the Houfe of Mrs, Simpfon Pitt's Row,
AT Tflf VfRY L OW ii T PRICES,
rPHE following Articles, of the beft quality
.*. viz.
Green and Souchong Teas ; Sugar of different qualities ; Jandles and Pom ¿turn ; C»licbes. ! bro^n and blue Daag^r^e ; plain and t^m^ourM I Mi-.flfn ; Chiotzïs and Prims, Briiciíh and Jiswgal,
\ Peu i Arc ia: (lus, &c. &j.
Sydmy, April 20.
NOTICE.
Two Small Boats having been left at New Zealand by Mr. Oliphant, MaSler of rhe CONTEST V in January Last, ni Millen of vef fcls and o hfrs frcqd:nting or oc Ck fiona i li» touch- ing at Dnifc/ ßiv or its vicinity, on the fa vi Cos ft, ara fccreby Iii idly cautioned to not tike awai , or in any. m inner io«ver dirrnga eitnerof the faid boats, as whey will other wife neco/ns rcfncníiSle to the owners for any aQl contrary lo tai tenor of this
Notice,
Sydney, April 13. '
LOST.
A Parcel of Memorandums and other loofe
^"-*- Papers, particularly lèverai Letters ad
dreíT-dto ívlr. L Davjjüen, Norfolk líUad, Cnm pi mern Hated from Bombay and Calen*;.!, Who foi^er will reit3-e the fiid Parcel to the f*i-i L, Divoren at the baufe formerly inhabited bv Philip P-rry, ajjicent to Sirjeant Richardiou'j, fli.U re- ceive a Reward of One Pound tarling,
Sydneys April 13, Selections
From Calcutta Gazettes to the 12th of Nov. last.
An English paper of the 20th of last May mentions, that about fifty gun brigs, luggers, &c. carne out of Flushiing to attack the gallant defender of "Acre Sir Sidney Smith: after a few broadsides, however they, were obliged to sheer off: the gallant Sir Sidney dashed in among-them, regardless of the fire of their batteriijs, until his ship took the ground, when he was obliged to sheer off: the frigates, three, with the Cruiser gun brig in company, suffered very much in sails and rigging; seven of the enemy's gun boats were sunk, one taken, and between 20 and 30 run on shore ; the rest escaped, fooie back into Flufhing, - and forn? to O ft end ; a very t heavy filing was heard heienearly th? whole of yesterday, which wefuppofe was Sir Sidney following up his blow in attacking the remainder 111 Oftend harbour ; 'nothing but the fhallownef? of the coaPc faved the whole of th¿ir flxiîhi from de ft ni St i on. We expect the news of ye (ter Jay's cannonade every hour.
[lis M ] jerry's fhi ) Ills, from the Eaft In- dies, laic from St. Helena, arrive! at Portf mouth on the 25th of lair April, wich fe v eral Lid.anien under convoy from Bengal; befides the following fouth whahrs, viz. the iViary, Rebecca, 'C/ius, and Gangs?-the two lat- ter prizes'to the Scoipi -»n. Captain Dagg.
The "Ship News" contained in the London papers the 281h of last April prefentcdi a truly melancholy account of our outward bound Weft India 3?et, not leis than I fn'tf ia.il of v/hi:h wet:- loft upon the coaft | of Portugal the 2 I of the fame niosub, with part of thcciewst acd many of the cargoes. We are ^remely iorry to learn, th'it the Apollo ftigate, Citnalj Dixon, convoying tieaboVe. was ¿lío lo,'}, und the Captain, third Li j \:u ni/and nearly too ¿f the crew unfonuparo*v drew:,ed. The convoy con- flit :d or o > '.all, the remainder of which pro iccntsJ ri/ij toy Age under protection of the
Carvslort h here
Leticiv fao:n Holland complain or the emi- gration of mo ft of the wealthier Dutch citi-
zens at a ti m 2 when the contributions de- mand immsnfe funis. At Amfterdam 1500 warehoufes and ir.aga^Les arc advertifed to be fold or let ; and at Rotterdam, 460. The value of ho.?fes in thefe tno cities has de
cieared t h ree. eights, and of country houfes nearly a half from within thefe two years. At A «literal.:, n, of a population of 233,000, S J, o do arc deiciibod a* 1 educed to bevrray «ir.d in n*ed of relief.-The exe ange of Amfterdam, as well a«, that of Rotterdam, is iihnoft emly, fines French police agents demand paíítc, or arreft any perfon they choofe to ícgaulas íuípected, or to accule of ti ad n.g with Ki glru.d,
Thh West India Docks, occupying a fur face of thircy acrrs for unloading all veilels »coming from the Weft India iiLinds and Co- lonies, has been compleated fame time fince, and there is now fuilicient accommodation in the fubíYanüal and extenilve {tacks of ware- houfes for fuch merchants as wiih fo bond or to houfe their commodities within the
- w*i)Iî, ur.expoícd to fire or plunder, as no
lights are fuflered at any lime, nor any per- j
ion allowed to remain onboard, or within ¡ the walls after dark. The* e^cacarion of | the dock for* loadiug, w¡liieh i« to o cupy .twenty four acres,, is, t proceeding in with
igrcat fpirit. 4n the,mtfanwhiky it is highly j gratifying to» it he Subfcri,b«r?. and encoura-
ging to rhefe grand nacional undertakings,
to find that the profits warrant a dividend orj ten per cent, on the fums already lubfcribed,
and which the fubferibers havekgun to receive.
NATIVES
With inexpressable concern we have to re- count a series of barbarities letely practiced by a banditti of these people, inhabiting the out-skirts of Hawkesbury.
Last Wednesday se'nnight a fellow known by the name of Branch Jack went to the farm of John Llewellyn, one of the Military settlers, who was at dinner with his labour- ing servant in a field ; he was invited to par- take of the fare ; and after sharing in the repast, found means to get the settler's mus- ket and powder horn in his possession, with which he made off with a loud yell, which wv» returned by about 20 others that had before concealed themselves, but now came forward, and discharged several spears at the unfortunate men, two of which entered the master's breast, who fell immediately, two others passing between the servants legs. The latter requesting to know their motive for the barbarous assault, was answered by a flight of spears, one of which penetrated his shoulder, and another one of his groin. Af- ter he had fallen the natives closed upon him, and thrice struck him on the head with a to- mahawk, each blow occasioning a dreadful wound. They then hurried the unfortunate object of their fury towards the bank of the
river, and hurled him downwards ; when he had lain for some timehalf immersed he heard the
groans of his unhappy master, who was shortly after dispatched, by some of the assai- lants who returned to all appearance porpose
ly : and supposing the servant dead, left the seite of horror. In this deplorable condition the poor man lay for the space of two whole days ; and when upon the very point of expi- ring, was snatched by the hand of Providence from immediate death, and taken to Hawkes- bury in a bat accidently passing, where he gave the above detail to the Magistrate there
resident.
On the same day another event of the same horrible kind took place at the branch, within three miles of the above. The farm house of T. Adlam was set on fire by a body of natives supposed to be the same ; and after the alarm hal been given, a search was made for the settler and his man, but they had shared a merciless fate, a part of their Relicks being found among the ashes, and the remainder scattered piecemeal, to become the prey of prowling animals and carnivorous birds ; from which circumstance it is probably con- jectured, that after the ill-fated people had been inhumanly murdered, their limbs were se- vered and wantonly scattered.
It since appears that some of these pitiless barbarians had several weeks before intimated
their detested purpose to several individuals, who treated it with levity, as nothing was
visible in their deportment that could justify suspicion of a hostile change.
The above survivor, whose name is John Knight, gave the foregoing detail upon ,Friday evening ; and armed boats were sent from the Green Hills, to prevent any further mischief about the Branches : and it is de- voutly to be hoped that the measures adopted by order of HIS EXCELLENCY may bring the barbarities to a speedy crisis.
It is sometimes contended, that these out- rages are only acts of retaliation for injuries received ; but such a persuasion must be al- lowed to yield to observation and experience to the contrary.
Snould it at any time appear "that an indivi- dual amenable to the law abuses by mal- treatment any of these people, the offence is immediately investigated, and the slightest act of injustice treated with even greater ri- gour than it would have been had the com- plaint proceeded from a European. The natives are themselves perfectly aware of the protection they owe to the Government; and its Officers ; and seldom suffer an occa- sion to escape of representing the slightest grievance.
During the last Twelvemonth, no com- plaint has been set up by a native, except in
one single instance of assault about four months since : and in consequence of which the ag- gressor, altho' a freeman, was committed to the County Gaol from Hawkesbury ; and still remains a labourer in the gaol gang.
Nor did the act of this delinquent extend further than a blow, as he himself declares in his own justification, to a native who de- signed to plunder him, so instangible are the Regulations providing for their security by inflicting exemplary punishment upon any whole want of humanity might stimulate them to acts of wanton violence against this
race of men.
The benefits they daily receive from the settlers and other inhabitants are on the other hand boundlefs* aiufihould lay claim to every grateful return, which can extend no further than to, a pafiiye forbearance from, rapacity; but no coniideration whatever cari bind them ; nor even fecurc from afiaiSinatiprj him th;t is in the very(act of contributing to their lelief from want, And nothing further need be faidto refute a no .ion of their being actuated to enormity by a principle of relent ment, than the bare îecollection that thofb enormities aie periodical in their commence* ment, at eveiy feafon when they may defpjíl the ieitkr ofhis crop, and reap by ftealth and open violence the produce of a tract they are thcmfelvestoo indolent to cultivate; and unleis a piovoked oppofition to their doing which be dcemedapiovocation to the renewal of mifchiefs, certain we are that no pretence cation whatever can exift.
SYDNEY.
A burglary was on Tuesday night last effected in the dwelling of Mr. Nathaniel Lucas, in Pitt's Row, between the hours of 11 and 12 ; but a small property was taken away, owing to the villains being disturbed. They had wrenched open the backdoor, the noise occasioned thereby being attributed to the yard dog and the neglect of its being properly secured. But shortly after the door of a lower apartment in which the greater part of Mr. Lucas's property was deposited, was heard also to open, and shortly after the lid of a large chest to be raised; whereupon an alarm was given, by two persons in an adjoining room, when the villains rushed violently against the door, as if determined to force it inwards, in order to silence the noise; but failing in their ends preceptiately made off through the garden fence. Two persons were on Wednesday morning apprehended on suspicion of the fact, and committed for examination.
A report prevails, that two of the persons employed by Mr. A. Thompson as salt boilers at Broken Bay are missing since Monday last; and that the apprehension is strengthened by the circumstance of their arms being found, it being improbable, that if they had fled for security from the natives, they should have gone off unarmed, unless unfortunately cut off from the place they were left at, and preciptately obliged to take refuge in the woods.
Messrs. Kable and Co. intend to launch the ship King George the first spring tide, which will happen about the latter end of next week.
Late on Wednesday night a dreadful thunder storm set in from the westward, which lasted about two hours with extreme violence, and was accompanied with a heavy fall of rain, and some very vivid lightening, succeeded by constant deluges of rain almost ever since. Happily, however, we do not understand that any disagreeable circumstance has been the consequence.
On Monday two millers in Government Employ received a corporal punishment for neglect of work, and repeated disobedience of orders.
And on Tuesday two smiths were also punished on the complaint of their overseer.
On Monday John Montague, a labouring servant of the Crown confined to the gaol gang, absconded from public labour at Fort Phillip; and is supposed to have taken to some of the out-settlements. He has an impediment in his speech, and wore a red jacket when he went away.
An animal of a truly singular and nouvel description was killed by dogs the 30th of March on a hill immediately contiguous to the settlement at Yorkton Port Dalrymple; from the following minute description of which, by Lieutenant Governor Paterson, it must be considered of a species perfectly distinct from any of the animal creation hitherto known, and certainly the only powerful and terrific of the carniverous and voracious tribe yet discovered on any part of New Holland or its adjacent Islands.
"It is very evident his species is destructive, and lives entirely on animal food; as on dissection his stomach was found filled with a quantity of kangaroo, weighing 5lbs. the weight of the whole animal 45lbs. From its interior structure it must be a brute peculiarly quick of digestion; the dimensions were, from the nose to the eye 41⁄2 inches: length of the eye, which is remarkably large and black, 11⁄4 inches; breadth of the eye 3⁄4 of an inch; from the nose to the extent of the mouth in the upper jaw, 6 inches; and to the extent of the under jaw, 41⁄2 inches; breadth of the forehead, 53⁄4 inches; from the eye to the ear, 33⁄4 inches; the ear round, diameter 3 inches; from the ear to the shoulder, 1 foot ; from the shoulder to the first stripe, 7 inches; from the first stripe to the extent of the body, 2 feet; length of the tail, 1 foot 8 inches; length of the fore leg, 11 inches; and of the fore foot, 5 inches; the fore foot with 5 blunt claws; height of the animal before, 1 foot 10 inches; stripes across the back 20, on the tail 3; 2 of the stripes extend down each thigh; length of the hind leg from the heel to the thigh, 1 foot; length of the hind foot, 6 inches; the hind foot with 4 blunt claws, and soles of the feet without hair; on each side the mouth are 19 bristles, length of each 4 inches; and 6 bristles on each side under the ear, 9 on the lower jaw upon each side, and 8 under the throat; 8 fore teeth in the upper jaw, and 6 in the under; 4 grinders of a side, in the upper and lower jaw; 3 single teeth also in each ; 4 tusks, or canine teeth length of each 1 inch: circumference of the head before the ears, 1 foot 6 inches and behind the ears, 1 foot 5 inches; smallest part of the neck, 1 foot 4 inches; circumference before the shoulder, 2 feet; the body short hair and smooth, of a greyish colour, the stripes black; the hair on the neck rather longer than that on the body ; the hair on the ears of a light brown colour, on the inside rather long.–The form of the animal is that of the hyæna, at the same time strongly reminding the observer of the appearance of a low wolf dog. The lips do not appear to conceal the tusks.
Observations of the Thermometer, Winds, & Weather, at Port Dalrymple, from the 1st to the 21st of February last.
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SHIP NEWS.
On Thursday arrived the ship Sydney, from Bengal bound to Port Dalrymple with horned cattle, 622 head of which the landed. there in excellent condition, and sailed for this port the 9th instant, with information that His Majesty's ship [Buffalo?] was to sail in about ten day after.
So extensive a supply of valuable flock as the above will prove a lasting resource to an infant settlement, the fertility of whose soil adapts it equally to culture and the growth of flock; and from the rapid progress already made, little doubt can be entertained of becoming a valuable addition to His Majesty's - dominions in the southern world.
On Friday arrived the Sophia, Captain Collins, from Hobart, on the River Derwent, in l8 days; touched at King's Island and stopped two days, the Endeavour schooner then lying there.- Passengers per the Sophia Lieut. Lord of the Royal Marines, and Mr. Humphries, Mineralogist.
We are happy to observe, that at both the settlements of Yorkton and Hobart every individual enjoys perfect health, and good spirits.
The Ship Policy will sail for England, in the course of the ensuing week. All persons therefore, who have Claims or Demands on Captain Foster are requested to furnish their Accounts without delay.
NOTICE
Captain Collins cautions the inhahitants of this Territory against giving Credit to any person whatever belonging to the ship Sophia, lately returned from Hobart; as he will not be responsible for any Claims that may be produced against them.
NOTICE
LEttcrs of Administration to the Estate and Effects of the late Thynne Adlam of the District of Hawkesbury, deceased, being granted to Mr. Wm. Day, Serjeant in the N. S. W. Corps, all Claims or Demands against the said Estate are to furnished within one month to the said Administrator at Sydney: and all such as are indebted thereto are also requested to liquidate such Debts within the term above specified, or in default whereof processes from the Civil Court must necessarily be sued for.
NOTICE
Letter of Administration of the late James Weavers of Kissing Point, Deceased, being granted to Mary Hutchinson, all claims or demands against the sais Estate are to be furnished within one month to Mr. Richard Chears; and all such as were indebted to the deceased at the period of his death are also requested to liquidate such debts within the term specified, or in default whereof processes from the Civil Court must necessarily be laid for.
Water-Colours, stationary, &c.
To be purchased of G. Howe,
Lower Chapel Row,
Darling's Best prepared Water Colours in Boxes, with Pencils and some loose colours.
Pens and Quills, ready made Ink and Ink Powders: Cards, for the instruction of infants, containing the Alphabet in four different characters ; tables of vowels joined to single and double consonants, monosyllables, &c. &c. price only 6d.