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 colony of the Australias, wrote its history in two bulky volumes, and lived to be a patriarch in the land of his exile. But Barrington's "History of New South Wales," dedicated to His Gracious Majesty George the Third, is not the literary monument that will transmit his name to an admiring posterity. He will be best and longest remembered by the audaciously witty prologue which he wrote and recited on the occasion of the first dramatic performance that was given in the city of Sydney by a company of convicts: From distant climes, o'er widespread seas we come, Though not with much éclat, or beat of drum; True patriots all, for, be it understood. We left our country for our country's good; No private views disgrac'd our generous zeal, "What urg'd our travels, was our country's weal;