He readily found a rascal to receive what property he could procure for sale, and for a long time escaped detection.  This depraved man had two brothers in the colony; one who came out with him in the first fleet, and who had been for some time a sober, hard-working, industrious settler, having also served the term of his transportation; the other brother came out in the last year, and bore the character of a well-behaved man.  There was also a fourth brother; but he was executed in England.  It was said, that these unfortunate men had honest and industrious people for their parents; they could not, however, have paid much attention to the morals of their family; or, out of four, some might surely have laid claim to the character of the parents.

The criminal court was again assembled on the 20th of this month, for the trial of William Godfrey, who was taken up on a suspicion of having seized the opportunity of some festivity on board of the Britannia, then nearly ready for sea, and taken half a barrel of powder out of the gun-room, about nine o’clock at night.  Proof however was not brought home to him; although many circumstances induced every one to suppose he was the guilty person.

This month was fixed for beginning the new barracks.  For the private soldiers there were to be five buildings, each one hundred feet by twenty-four in front, and connected by a slight brick wall.  At each end were to be two apartments for officers, seventy-five feet by eighteen; each apartment containing four rooms for their accommodation, with a passage of sixteen feet.  Of these barracks, one at each end was to be constructed at right angles with the front, forming a wing to the centre buildings.  Kitchens were to be built, with other convenient offices, in the rear, and garden ground was to be laid out at the back.  Their situation promised to be healthy, and it was certainly pleasant, being nearly on the summit of the high ground at the head of the cove, overlooking the town of Sydney, and the shipping in the cove, and commanding a view down the harbour, as well of the fine piece of water forming Long Cove, as that branching off to the westward at the back of the lieutenant governor’s farm.

The foundation of one of the buildings designed for an officer’s barrack having been dug, and all the necessary materials brought together on the spot, the walls of it were got up, and the whole building roofed and covered in, in eleven days.

Their situation being directly in the neighbourhood of the ground appropriated to the burial of the dead, it became necessary to choose another spot for the latter purpose; and the governor, in company with the Rev. Mr. Johnson, set apart the ground formerly cultivated by the late Captain Shea of the marines.