Among Other Public Toasts Drank, Was,
Prosperity To Sydney Cove, In Cumberland County, Now Named So By Authority.
At Day-Light In The Morning The Ships Of War Had Fired Twenty-One Guns Each,
Which Was Repeated At Noon, And Answered By Three Vollies From The Battalion
Of Marines.
Nor were the officers alone partakers of the general relaxation.
The four unhappy wretches labouring under sentence of banishment were freed
from their fetters, to rejoin their former society; and three days given
as holidays to every convict in the colony.
Hospitality too, which ever
acquires a double relish by being extended, was not forgotten on the
4th of June, when each prisoner, male and female, received an allowance
of grog; and every non-commissioned officer and private soldier had the honor
of drinking prosperity to his royal master, in a pint of porter,
served out at the flag staff, in addition to the customary allowance
of spirits. Bonfires concluded the evening, and I am happy to say,
that excepting a single instance which shall be taken notice of hereafter,
no bad consequence, or unpleasant remembrance, flowed from an indulgence
so amply bestowed.
About this time (June) an accident happened, which I record with much regret.
The whole of our black cattle, consisting of five cows and a bull,
either from not being properly secured, or from the negligence of those
appointed to take care of them, strayed into the woods, and in spite of all
the search we have been able to make, are not yet found.
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