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CONTENTS.
CHAP. XIII.
Examined before the Lord Mayor—Fully committed—Tried and cast—My father's faith and assurances—My disappointment on being transported for seven years.—Contract the gaol distemper, and am reduced to the point of Death—Recover my health, and am sent on board a transport for Botany Bay, page 155.
CHAP. XIV.
Sail from England—Account of our voyage—Arrive at Port Jackson—Write in my own behalf to Commissary Palmer—That gentleman is pleased to notice my application—Land at Sydney, and am carried before Governor King—A curious dialogue between His Excellency and myself—Ordered to Hawkesbury, as Storekeeper's Clerk, page 68.
CHAP. XV.
My Conduct at Hawkesbury—Continue for three years to give satisfaction to my principal—Ordered by Governor King into the Secretary's Office—Give way to the temptations with which I am surrounded, and begin to lead a dissipated life in company with some other clerks—Concert a system of fraud upon the King's stores, which we practise successfully for some time—The imposition is at length detected—I am in consequence dismissed the office and sent to hard labour, for the first time in my life, page 76.
