The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-10-15 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

roarsilevra, ocreant 13.
Sailed yesterday the Surrey. Saute, fur Newt &path Wales ;
Grafts, Garbutt, for the South Seas; Joao, Workouts, fur
Trieste Circassiao, Wasse, fur Calcutta; that Active, for Ja •
males.

Arrived taday the tphiieala'from she roast of Africa;
Wuoilfurd, Chaprosa, from she Downs for Madras.
Sailed Ike Cameleou cm a cruise.
FALWOIITIII, OCTOBRIL 11.
Arrived the Osborn packet, 2h days from Nirsr York, IS
from Halifax; was placed order gaaratilaae, slid saltation&
the west day.
OPAL, OCTOII/1 13.
Arrived and sailed for the River the Vsusitiart, Daloyas.
Gum Cluaa; and Rrireieb, frac, from JAMMICII.
Case dowa from she River and °metric tlce Stumbled, 4r.
Ihmiastom, fur Madeira and lsassica ; Vestal, Italateemmy
foe Flynt..

Yesierdisy arrived and sailed for the River the &trey, Faith,
evens Tobago; Reim, (ream Demerara: Dureauselt, from
Rooth Sew ; and Madras, from India.
Vann down from the River the Marquis of Holdings, foe
SWIMS and Calcutta, mid railed with the soutwaid bound.

Arrived the itetreaell, Frost, fearer Jamaica, on a very dia.
tressed state, she Captain and roe. comploey exhausted,
having been on short •11ovranee 2S days. On the 16Th
August, in the Gulf of Florida, .a. boarded by ore pirate
sehormere, with sower& of 10 Teen, and plundered of every
flues oe beard, previews' not exc.-peed. Abe spoke the
Amiable hum and gut a small 'ripply of provisions from
►er. She informed ber that she hail spekria a ship, who re.
ported there had ►eau *racial 'noels tak,it by puritan,
mime( which were two Fiend', one Hamburgh, two Ame-
ricans, and some anelisk.

OXALIC Actt►.—lt is known from experience
that K brewed sable spoonful of magnesia, muted
in ■ middlemesmed tumbler of water, and drank
iasatedisiely after oleic acid loss been swallowed,
w 441 are life.—(Morning Puper
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We are informrd that the patronage of the Bo-
rough of Bothnia has been transferred by the Noble
Lord who has so long enjoyed it, to the Lord %War-
den of the Seminaries; and we are ussurrd that the
Noole Marquis is expected shortly to pay a visit to
his new friends at that place, in order to be re-elected
Recorder, and take the oaths required by law on
hi* appointment to that important uffice. We dare
say the Corporation and Freemen have been fully
satisfied that the change will nut have any injurious
effect on their roller ute or individual inlcreittr--
(West Brehm

NEW SOVIrKWALES.

lIITRACY IRON THE RlVilitY or role CON.
HONER or INQUIRY trro irks 11/011 or Thi
COLONY Of NIW 110114111‘ WARN.

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(Collins/it from our Paper of istorday hut)

In the mine way, and under the same influence,
four of the men who worked very frequently at
Bathurst for Mr. Cos, and whose labour was taken
io exchairgeby him for that of other workmen that
lie had lent to Govrroment, received etnancipa•
tions upon his recommendation.
I certundy believe, that in making there recom-
mendations, Mr. Cox followed wily the example of
other Magisrrateir and musters of convicts in the
colony, whb have found, that the beat way to sti-
mulate their indtudry is tortirornive them recom-
mendations to the Governor, after the performance
of any given quantity of work. There are other
masters, who are not dicposrd to snake such ascii►
fives of psieciple to loofi,, and it is only by the 1..
stracnentattily'•of sus h peesima, and by taking car*
also, that their refu.at to certify the good condwet
of a se's' int does not pr..ceed from a selfish wish to
retam his services, that this very important part of
the reformatory influence of the colony can be
preserved in purity, or prevented front becoming a
source either of private corruption or of continued
oppression.

As the principle of rewarding convicts with
emsucipotions and pardons for services, similar to
those performed on the Bathurst and Richmond
roads, interferes oral the operation of the principle,
upon which, alone, they he given; and which
Governor Macqu.irne, in his first orders on these sub-
jects, very emphatically proclaimed, "as the inva-
riable rule by which he intended to govern himself
for the future ;" the departure from that rule, for
the purpose of cheaply obtaining services that
would have been chargeable to the colonial fonds,
has tended to bring into suspicion and disrepute
the exercise of a prerogative that should of all
others be the most free from both. It produced a
belief, that the rewards of good conduct were be-
come the subjects of sale and barter, through the
corruption of the agents employed.
1 think it necessary to state here, that although
ausuy,tersorn in the colony have regretted the fa-
cility with which Governor hlacquarrie has yielded
to the recommendations for pardons and eseaucips-
lions upon these occasion., and have considered
that this facility has produced an unfortunate effect
upon the minds of the convicts in the colony; yet
1 never have heard the slightest suspicion cast upon
the purity of his own motives, or the integrity of
his conduct, either in these, or in other cases of
granting indulgence..
The conduct of some of the persons who re-
ceived ecuancipstion tor the services before alluded
to is out undeserving of stoner : Thomas Giaffilltti,
who acted as storekeeper to the Bathurst rued
party, rod afterwards at Bathurst, appears, by the
ackhowledgineut and in the huigusge of Mr. Cox,
who recommended him, to have been a consum-
mate villain." Thomas Carpenter, after receiving
his emancipation for conveying stores to Bathurst
for Mr. Oxley's expeditron, become the tenant of
• public-house in Sydney in the month of Febru-
ary 1820, and contrary to the recorucuesidati of
the 31agistrates at Sydney ; in four months after
that period, he was convicted by the crimiusl
Court of receiviug stolen goods, amongst winch
was found some wearing apparel of the Aide-de-
Camp to Governor Marguerite. John Hodges
had received a ticket of leave ettior to his sertiliiig
his horse and cart for the same service as Carpenter,
in consequence of his having married a youog wo-
Mall who was • native of the colony. and of having
purchased land. Hr ulterwsrds took a house, and
lived in Poramotta, where hr sold spirits without a
license, and was UOIOIiOUS for affording reception
to the servants of settlers, and fur promoting licen-
tioustiess and debauchery. He was convicted twice
during my residence in the colony of selling stints
wii hoot a license, and was abandoned by his wife;
but in consequeuce of a promise that had bent
made to into by Governor Mai quirrie, that lie
should have a license on condition of building
good house in Porrrnattat, I find that he since re-
ceived one in the year 1821, after having performed
the condition. Robert Harird had been trans-
ported a second time to the colony, and for life. its
the year 1815. He immediately received a ticket
of leave on his arrival, and married the daughter of
a promo who had kept Pill inn at Paramatta, and
who had sonic property ; with that, and with the
profits of a successful itonsitnent of tobacco that
he lead hero allowed In snake while his ship, the
Indefatigable, was at Rio de Jaiitiro, lie established
himself at an inn in Sydney that was licensed in
the forme of his wife, who was the daughter of
• convict. Here he conducted himself well, and
his house continued to be the resort of the most re-
spectable settlers in the country wild he died, in the
year 1820. Wm. Bradbury obtained a grant of land
mow awe he 'revved hiaerisancipatiori, and has oc-
cupied it ever since. Ile was one of those who ac-
companied Governor Macquarrie in his lust exile-
canton to the newly discovered lakes; and gave his
personal attendance, with his horse and cart, receiv-
ing payment Irons the police fund fur that service.
'Fins man bore a good charsctir, and had succeeded
better than many others of his class in the cultiva-
tion of his farm. David Lindley acted as store-
keeper at Bathurst from the year 1817 to the year
1819, and having received a here pardon from his
Majesty, on account of circumstances unconnected
with his conduct its New South %Vales, lie returned
home in the year 1820. His character was stated
to me to have been good, although I hail
not the means of ascertaiimig whether lie had re-
sisted the great temptations to which lie was ex•
posed, by the system upon which Mr. Cox had
been suffered to comfort the goeeruairnt works,
and the issue, of provisions at Bathurst.

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