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 OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 687 Both volumes were reissued in 1810. Pages 467 to the end Biblio- of the Voyage are rearranged, and include descriptions of several graphy. plates from the History, to which readers had been referred for accounts in the firat edition. There is also a preface to the latest edition of the Voyage and an Account of Barrington's death, and of the property he left in the colony. To the new edition of the History a supplement is added, bringing that work down to 1809, with a new index, making altogether 548 pages. Another edition of Barring ton's Voyage, to which is added, his life and Trial Svo., pp. iv, 184. New York, n.d. These works were compiled in London. A comparison with the works of Collins and other writers of the time will discover their true origin. In an anonymous work on New South Wales [by G. Paterson] the writer says (pp. 390-391) that—" For a con- fliderable time previous to his death, Barrington was in a state of insanity, brought about by his serious and sorrowful reflections on his former career of iniquity. He expressed a very considerable degree of displeasure, when he was in a state of sanity, at his name being affixed to a narrative which he knew only by report as being about to be published." The celebrated Prologue, said to have been spoken at a perform- ance in Sydney, 16th January, 1796, including the lines — True patriots all, for be it understood, We left onr country for our country's good, appeared in Barrington's History, edit. 1802 and 1810, pp. 151- 153 ; but not in the earlier "Barrington" of 1800. The details of the performance, even to the names of the principal performers, are evidently taken from Collins (vol. i, pp. 448-449) ; but he says nothing about the Prologu& Other works relating to Barrington : — Memoirs of George Barrington, from his birth, in 1755, to his last conviction at the Old Bailey on Friday, the 17th of September, 1790. A new edition, greatly improved. 8vo., pp. 91. London, 1790. These publications differ only in the title. The former contains, in addition, ^n heroic epistle from George Barrington, Esq., to Major Semple, on his sentence to transportation to the coast of New South Wales. . The Genuine Life and Trial of George Barrington, from his birth, in June, 1 755, to the time of his Conviction in Old Bailey in September, 1790, for robbing Henry Hai-e Townsend, Esq., of his gold watch, seals, kc 8vo., pp. 48. London, 1791. ■ The Life, the Times, and Adventures of George Barrington, the Celebrated Thief and Pickpocket. With engravings. ■ 12mo., pp. 74. London [1839]. Digitized by Google