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J t ^ w bring U » cm bacjt again a yea r pr ^ wo . Two or three natives of my acquaintance have begun to cultivate the ground , and , with a little attention on toe part of Government , they might soon be civilized Ellis and I staid
with them a week , and we promised to return to hoe up the ground and plant ii for then * . But I am now too infirm . They are quick , ingenious , vivacious and happy , read counteuances and characters with singular penetration , and take them off with great humour .
It is singular that no dialect , or rather language , reaches above forty miles extent , some not half so far , so that a native of one district is totally unintelligible to another . They are as free as the air they breathe , and pay respect only to bravery and talents . They have no chief or priests . They have a discipline by which every member of the commonwealth is coerced into good
order . ^ For slight offences so many spears are thrown at the offender , which he may ward off , if he can , with his shield . For great offences these spears Uilast not only be thrown , but broken . If the offender is wounded , and justice be satisfied , nothing can equal their care and kindness to the wounded
person . tf 1 should not have time , being taken by surprise by the ship sailing , will you tell our common friend , Mr . &utt , that , with no little difficulty , I
obtained a large deal box , which came in the Granges , directed for Messrs . Mtttr , &c . It contained some brown paper parcels from you and Mr . Rutt , s , ome newspapers , and a large deal box and some letters directed to Mr . Muir ,
and two counterpanes . Mr . Muir * s letters and box , indeed the whole contents , I opened before the governor . * Tfyifc last mentioned deal box contained private property from Mr . Muir ' s fatUe * ; this was given to the
provostrnarfcbal to be sold for the benefit of his creditors . The letters I opened before the governor , and , by his permission , burnt . The only property from the committee , the two counterpanes , 1 kept . , I have been so often defrauded of
• Mr . Muir had escaped from the colony in an Ampriciia vessel which touched there . After VSnous adr ^ ntu re s he died in Spain .
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Letter V . Sydney , N . S . Wales , Sc p * \ Q § 1 799-Dear Friend , I HAVE the p leasure to receive a letter from you , dated September 28 ,
1798 , by the Hillsborough . On the receipt of it , I applied for permission to take Joseph JLarkin * to my house : but no such person could be fourth nor has there been such a person embarked . It is most fortunate for him that he Hid
not come in this murderous shipj . ; Of two hundred and sixty convicts put on board , nitvety-seven died before they reached the harbour , and ten since . They were whipped , confined in f > estilential air and starved . The Captain , H , would not allow them a
swab to clean out their place . I saw their filth . In consequence , the jti . il fever made its appearance . Eight died in one night at the Cape . It is painful to relate the barbarity , the tyranny , the murderous starvation of this wretch . This is the fourth who has exercised these atrocities while H has been governor , and no inquiry made !!!
* A young man who bad been capitally convicted at Lancaster , on a chacge of forgery , fin account of $ owe favourable circumstances in his case , bis punishment had been commuted to transportation for life . Mr . Girle , who is mentioned in the
Obituary ( VIII . 280 ) , and who then resided at Lancaster , todk a very benevolent interest in the fate of Joseph Larkijn ; and at his desire , I bad recommended the young man to Mr . Palmer ' s attentions , If my memory serves me , Dr . Barnes , of Manchester , also interested bimseif on Abe
same occasion .
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666 Letters from Thomas Muir , Esq . and the JRev . T . F . Palmer
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boxes and parcels , jthiU unless they are bookedkfai ** he tog ^ tfook ^ rTttiatek noo k , they may be reckoned as lost . Between the rogues on shi-jp-board , and on shore , a convict is sure ^ not to get themy * because he has no redress . incepting books , I beg nothing mbre may bd < sent me . There ^ re some modern publications , which 1 will not mention
hecause expensive ; but such smaller books or pamphlets which my friends have done with , I will thank them for . I sliaJl write to my tfrephew for the publications 1 allude to . I am , my dear Sir , Most sincerely your obliged T . F . PALMER . The Rev . Dr . Disney . . .. - [ Received Feb . 11 , 1799 . 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1817, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2464/page/10/
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