During The Execution The Battalion
Of Marines Was Under Arms, And The Whole Of The Convicts Obliged To Be Present.
The two associates of the sufferer were ordered to be kept close prisoners,
until an eligible place to banish them
To could be fixed on; as were also
two more, who on the following day were condemned to die for a similar offence.
Besides the Criminal court, there is an inferior one composed of the
Judge Advocate, and one or more justices of the peace, for the trial
of small misdemeanours. This court is likewise empowered to decide all
law suits, and its verdict is final, except where the sum in dispute amounts
to more than three hundred pounds, in which case an appeal to England
can be made from its decree. Should necessity warrant it, an Admiralty court,
of which Lieutenant Governor Ross is judge, can also be summoned, for the trial
of offences committed on the high seas.
From being unwilling to break the thread of my narrative, I omitted to note
in its proper place the sailing of the 'Supply', Lieut. Ball, on the 15th
of the month, for Norfolk Island, which the Governor had instructions
from the ministry to take possession of. Lieut. King of the Sirius was sent
as superintendent and commandant of this place, and carried with him
a surgeon, a midshipman, a sawyer, a weaver, two marines, and sixteen convicts,
of whom six were women. He was also supplied with a certain number
of live animals to stock the island, besides garden seeds, grain,
and other requisites.
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