[Editor: This brief untitled news item, about some convicts sentenced to transportation to Australia, is an extract from the “Postscript: London” section published in the The London Chronicle (London, England), 14 April 1792.]
[This morning 24 men convicts]
Source:
The London Chronicle (London, England), vol. LXXI no. 5564, 14 April 1792 [“From Thursday, April 12, to Saturday, April 14, 1792”], p. 360 (8th page of that issue), column 3 [scan #366]
Editor’s notes:
assizes = law court sessions held in the counties of England and Wales; the role of the assizes varied over the course of time, until they were abolished in 1971
See: 1) “assize: law”, Encyclopaedia Britannica
2) “The assizes”, UK Parliament
3) “Assizes”, Wikipedia
Botany-bay = (usually spelt: Botany Bay): a bay located to the south of the City of Sydney (New South Wales), located in the south-eastern section of Sydney’s greater metropolitan area; it was discovered in 1770 by the English explorer James Cook (1728-1779); Botany Bay was intended as the location for the first British settlement in Australia, but Governor Arthur Phillip (1738-1814) decided that the area was unsuitable, and instead founded the settlement further north, in Sydney Cove (in Sydney Harbour, Port Jackson, New South Wales), but, despite the change of location, the settlement was often referred to as “Botany Bay” for many years
See: “Botany Bay”, Wikipedia
gaol = an alternative spelling of “jail” (prison)
Newgate = (in the context of crime and punishment) Newgate prison, a prison located at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey Street, in London (England); Newgate Prison was originally built in 1188, was closed in 1902, and demolished in 1904
See: “Newgate Prison”, Wikipedia
Portsmouth = a port city located on the southern coast of England, in the county of Hampshire
See: “Portsmouth”, Wikipedia
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