A few slops
were served to the male convicts in the beginning of this month, they
being nearly naked, and the store unable to supply them with covering.
The tower of the new wind-mill was, under all these disadvantages,
completed, and the machinery put in hand. This tower was of large
dimensions, being 30 feet in height, and erected on a rock which was
considerably higher than the surrounding ground. The wheel was four feet
in thickness, and the diameter within was 20 feet.
There was very little intermission of rain, thunder, and lightning,
during the whole of the month.
April.] This month opened with a necessary act of justice. Five men were
capitally convicted, before the court of criminal judicature, of seizing
two boats, the property of individuals, with an intent of escaping from
the colony. One man was capitally convicted of a robbery; three were
transported to Norfolk Island for 14 years; one for 7; one was adjudged
corporal punishment, and one acquitted.
Two of the five that were condemned for seizing the boats suffered death
at Sydney, after a week's preparation for that awful moment.
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