m LOSS OF H-M.a *'GUARI>TAN.** " .TU LIANA" AKRIVER. 1790. overboard to lighten the ship at sea, were afterwards for«^| warded to Sydney. ^ The brave Eiou*B ser^ces are commemorated in St. Paurt5 Cathedra!- A despatch fi^om liimself at Table Bay (20th May, 1790) records his gratitude to twenty of the^ convicts whom he sent on to Sydney : ** Without thei]^| assistance and support the Guardian would never have^ arrived to where she is. ... I publicly declared that not one of them, so far as depended on myself, should ever be convicts."*'* Siicli are the gleams of light which occasionally illumine the dark ages of Australian liistory. Edward Eiou will not be less regarded as a hero because he could elicit gallant support from convicts, and was manly enough to acknow^jM ledfi^e liis obligations. ^| AVith her accumulated stores the slow Julmna sailed from Table Bay, and liopes deferred were to be gi'atihed amongst^ those whose hearts had so long been sick at Port Jackson^B On the 3rd June, 1790, the signal for a ship was made at" the Sooth Head. The settlement was in an uproar of emotion. It was learned that the ship was thi transport JuUtnia, from London, July, 1789, with 22! female convicts. The tidings she brought were eagerly devoured by the insatiate colonists. The loss of thi Guardian ; of the private effects of the colonists en^ trusted to Iier ; the illness of the king ; his recovery tidings that 1000 convicts were to be sent at once t( Sydney; that a corps of foot was to be raised for ser^io in the colony ; tluit Major Francis Grose of the 29th Ee^ ment was to be its commandant; the change in the French Constitution; and the various domestic affairs of esu officer and colonist, after a blank of three years, wei poured into greedy ears. But the Jnlimm had brought no' large supply of food, and the wolf was not yet driven from tlie door. Of the small quantity of flour brought by the Jidiana^ twenty casks were totally destroyed through the vessers unseaworthiness. On the king*B birthday (4th June), Phillip pardoned all offenders under sentence; and on t!ie 9th appointed a day ^* The Secretary of State (Nov. 1790) instructed Phillip to parclon
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