An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales (Classic Reprint) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

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Our Hero was born about the year 1755, at the village of Maymooth, in the county of Kil dare. His parents who bore a good character for their industry, integrity, and general good behaviour, were however, never able to rise to a state of independence, or security from indi gence, owing to their engagement in a law suit with a more powerful and opulent relative, m or der to the recovery of alegacy, to which they conceived they had a legal right. To the narrow ness of their circumstances, the neglect of their son's education and therefore they were incapable of improving, or of giving a pro per bias to those early indications of natural abili ties, and a superiority of talents, which must have inevitably unfolded themselves, even in the dawn of young Barrington's existence. He was, notwithstanding these obstacles, mstructed in reading and writing at an early age, at their expense; and afterwards, through the bounty of a medical gentleman in the neighbourhood, he was initiated in the principles of common arithmetic, the elements of geography, and the outlines of' Englishg oramma1.

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A return of all occurrences during the night was to be made to the judge-advocate; and the military were required to fur nish. The watch with any assistance they might be in need of, be yond what the civil power could give them, They were provided each with a short staff, to distinguish them during the night, and to denote their office in the colony; and were instructed not to receive any stipulated encouragement or reward from any individual for the conviction of offenders, but to expect that negligence or misconduct in the execution of their trust would be punished with the utmost rigour.

These watchmen, it seems, were of necessity chosen from among ethe' convicts; and as it was hoped some of them would feel a pride in being distinguished from their fellows, which might give birth to 9a returning principle of honesty, notwithstanding the jeers and scorn of some of their abandoned associates; Mr. Barrington's con duct justified this reasonable presumption.

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