This ship had left Falmouth on the preceding 20th of January, and completed her passage exactly in five months*.

She had staid at Madeira one day, and four at Sao Tiago, from which last place she had steered directly for New South Wales, neglecting Rio de Janeiro on her right, and the Cape of Good Hope on her left; and notwithstanding the immense tract of ocean she had passed, brought her crew without sickness into harbour.

When the novelty and boldness of such an attempt shall be recollected, too much praise, on the spirit and activity of Mr.Maitland, cannot be bestowed.
[*Accident only prevented her from making it in eighteen days less, for she was then in sight of the harbour's mouth, when an unpropitious gale of wind blew her off.

Otherwise she would have reached us one day sooner than the 'Lady Juliana'.

It is a curious circumstance, that these two ships had sailed together from the river Thames, one bound to Port Jackson, and the other bound to Jamaica.