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  2. SYDNEY THIEVES.

    "Stolen from off the lands of VaucluSe on Monday last, the 12th instant (November, 1810),a large, dark brown cow, 5 years old, remarkably tat, within about six weeks of calving. ...

    Article : 415 words
  3. Celebrities at Botany Bay,

    HE inconve­niences at­tending any kind of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 353 words
  4. On the Stookyard Fence.

    OME considerable time be­fore the rabbits discovered and began to colonise Aus­tralia a number of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 3,529 words
  5. A PRETTY STORY.

    Another explanation of the matter, which has long been in vogue, attributes tbe pardon to the pathetic entreaties of his eldest daughter, addressed in person to the Prince Regent. After her ...

    Article : 159 words
  6. HOME AGAIN.

    However it came about, the pardon itself was a fact, and Sir Henry made up his mind to return home. Having disposed of his possessions-Vau-cluse passed into the hands of Lieutenant-Colonel ...

    Article : 267 words
  7. £20,000 in Charity,

    The death in the workhouse of a clergyman, who at one time spent £20,000 in charity, is reported by a Leicester correspondent, who Bays: The.Rev. George Tripp, a clerk in holy orders, who had held curacies ...

    Article : 149 words
  8. THE 73rd.

    It "would seem that at this time Sir Henry had dropped the idea of a farm, and had resolved to give a more dignified title to his place of residence. So we have "the Domain of Vaucluse," instead of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 202 words
  9. TRANSPORTED AGAIN.

    Breakwell was his valet, who remained in charge at the farm when he was not there. At the very time that he was fretting about his pigs, he had got into hot water again with Governor ...

    Article : 148 words
  10. REASON WHY.

    What had he done? It seems that he incurred his Excellency's displeasure by chumming with Margarot, whose private journal had made him odious in his eyes as a visible embodiment of ...

    Article : 325 words
  11. How I Shifted Belchep.

    THINK that the most aggravating thing in exist­ence Is to be constantly meeting a man who insists upon finishing your good ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 856 words
  12. THE RIVALS.

    One of his fellow passengers was General Holt, the Irish rebel, who had received a free pardon the year before he sailed, and who has left an ac­count of the wreck in his Memoirs. It contains ...

    Article : 313 words
  13. DRAWING THE LINE.

    "Previously to my arrival here, the men whom I have named above, although filling the most re­spectable offices, were received into society only as it suited the caprice of the other inhabitants ...

    Article : 169 words
  14. SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS.

    This was a nice reputation to have made in so short a time. The whole colony, it seems, was disgusted with them. But at this time Sir Henry had been only three years in it, and' out of that he ...

    Article : 259 words
  15. A SNAKE STORY.

    It was at this period of happy repose in bis trou­bled life that he took it into his head-be was al­ways eccentric-to rid "the Domain of Vaucluse" from a far more dangerous set of visitors than ...

    Article : 269 words
  16. THE EXILE'S RETURN.

    It' was late in the year 1813 before Sir Henry stood at the door of Vernon Mount, and was wel­comed home by friends and relatives. Little is now known about the life he led In his native ...

    Article : 147 words
  17. STMPATHT.

    The Story ol bis abduction did not seem to ex­cite much indignation in public sentiment, it -we may judge from a ballad which became popular ' in his native city, and was sung to the tune of ...

    Article : 179 words
  18. MARGAROT'S JOURNAL.

    The evidence which seems to have weighed most with King in condemning Sir Henry as a seditious character was found in Margarot's Jour­nal, which was seized in 1804; but the entries ...

    Article : 323 words
  19. A GARDEN PARTY AT VAUCLUSE.

    The letter was duly sent, and, pending the arrival of the shipment, the convicts at Vaucluse were employed in digging a trench round.the house, six feet wide and two deep. It was finished long ...

    Article : 244 words
  20. A NARROW SQUEAK.

    It was no doubt owing to the force of this sympathetic feeling among all classes that he owed the commutation of his sentence; a less popular offender might have been made use of to serve as ...

    Article : 537 words
  21. "A BLANK, MY LORO"

    For five years from the date of his departure, his life remains a balnk, which some least, during that interval, up. For some time, at least, during that interval, he was a wanderer on the sylvan ...

    Article : 154 words
  22. A PARDONED SINNER.

    Then years had passed away In exile, the last hall of them not altogether unpleasantly, when in 1812, the knight was gratified by the recelpt of on official letter from john Thomas Gampbell, the ...

    Article : 186 words
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