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The Patowmac Guardian, And Berkeley Advertiser
Martinsburg, Shepherdstown, Berkeley County, Jefferson County, West Virginia
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A letter from Botany Bay's surgeon general warns of dire food shortages in the British convict colony, with provisions barely lasting seven months at half rations, foretelling starvation for all settlers if no aid arrives.
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The very much talked of (promising) retreat for British convicts, and their task masters Botany Bay; is like to prove a burying place, funeral pile, or new monument of British folly. The surgeon general, of that place informs, by letter, that all the provisions raised there in two years would not sustain the lives of the settlers for three months; that there were not enough on those barren shores for more than three months from April last, the date of his letter, at half allowance, but that they had proportioned the pittances in such a manner as to have some hopes dragging but a 7 months miserable existence -- after which, if no relief was received, they must all perish. These are the new British colonies! hopeful substitute of the United States of America, and, possibly, but the beginning of those curses, which, as heaven is just, inevitably annexed to national injustice, and political barbarism.
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Botany Bay
Event Date
April Last
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provisions insufficient to sustain settlers beyond 7 months at half allowance, leading to likely perishing if no relief
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The surgeon general at Botany Bay reports by letter that provisions raised in two years would not sustain settlers for three months; stocks on barren shores last only three months from April last at half allowance, proportioned to extend to seven months of miserable existence, after which all must perish without relief.