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Pork 23,851 pounds,) Which was 26th Aug.---4 months 14 days.

Beef 1,280 pounds,) to serve

Rice 24,455 pounds,) at the 13th Sept.--5 months 1 day.

Peas 17 bushels,) ration

Flour 56,884 pounds,) then issued 19th Dec.---8 months 7 days.

Biscuit 1,924 pounds,) until

The duration of the Supply's voyage was generally expected to be six months; a period at which, if no relief arrived in the mean time from England, we should be found without salt provisions, rice, and peas.

In the above statement three hundred bushels of wheat, which had been produced at Rose Hill, were not included, being reserved for seed.

The governor, from a motive that did him immortal honor, in this season of general distress, gave up three hundred weight of flour which was his excellency's private property, declaring that he wished not to see any thing more at his table than the ration which was received in common from the public store, without any distinction of persons; and to this resolution he rigidly adhered, wishing that if a convict complained, he might see that want was not unfelt even at Government house.