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Monday morning, four of the men convicted at
the Galway Special Commission arrived in Cork,
under a strong escort, and shortly after were conveyed
to Cove, in the Waterloo steamer, Captain
COTTER, to be put on board the hulk Surprise. At
the same time, one hundred and eighty-five females,
from the Convict Penitentiary in the City, were put
on board the same steamer to be shipped in the Hoogley [Hooghly]
transport, now in harbour, and which will take
her departure the first opportunity for New South
Wales, orders for whose embarkation are only been
received the evening before. Tuesday, eleven free settlers, wives and children of convicts at New South Wales, who had been for some time in that establishment, embarked in that ship also, a passage being provided for them through the humanity of Government. |