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ON THE QUEENSLAND COAST.
Two more incidents in the career of Flinders will concern us before we deal with his important later voyages.

The first of these is only worth mentioning for the light it throws upon the character of the man.

In March, 1799, he sat as a member of a court of criminal judicature in Sydney, for the trial of Isaac Nichols, who was charged with receiving a basket of tobacco knowing it to have been stolen.

The case aroused passionate interest at the time.