will be said that he found a
garrison and a gaol, and left the deep and broad foundations of an
empire!

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 97: The instructions to Macquarie (1809) were--grants at 6d.
quit rent. Thirty acres to an expiree, twenty for a wife, and ten each
child.]

[Footnote 98: _Collins's New South Wales._]

[Footnote 99: The _Life of George Barrington_, written by himself, a
respectable volume in size and typography, was published in 1810: nearly
every paragraph is copied from Collins, the style being first debased;
and the colored sketches are a mere piracy from other volumes. It was
thought fair, by the ingenious booksellers to use the name of a popular
pickpocket, rather than one so little known as a Lieutenant-Governor. Of
posthumous agency in thus picking the pockets of the prigging race,
George Barrington's memory must be acquitted.]

[Footnote 100: _Life of Barrington._]

[Footnote 101: Tench.]

[Footnote 102: Heath: _Par. Pap._]

[Footnote 103: Terry kept blank deeds ready at his
public-house.--_Bigge's Report._]

[Footnote 104: "Eighteen years ago (1802), the period when I arrived in
this colony, it was lamentable to behold the excess to which drunkenness
was carried. It was no uncommon occurrence for men to sit round a bucket
of spirits, and drink it with quart pots, until they were unable to stir
from the spot."--_Dr. Redfern's replies to Macquarie; published by
Parliament._

This reference to the past was intended to contrast favorably with the
present (1820), but drunkenness was not greatly diminished: the bucket
and pannikin still were in request at more remote parts of the colonies,
and their use was recommended as a "measure of police," to prevent the
drunkards from robbing each other. Poured into a bucket, none could be
unfairly abstracted--_all_ shared alike; but had it not been so
arranged, some rogue of the party would have removed some bottles, when
the rest were off their guard; and thus reserved for himself the
pleasures of intoxication, when the others were obliged, for lack of
spirits, to be sober!]

[Footnote 105: Bigge, however, states, that Marsden himself was a
trafficker in spirits, and felt naturally opposed to the profuse
competition he encountered; yet the reader will recollect that this was
the common article of barter--its use universal, in even the most
correct society; and that it was rather to the disorderly habits of the
houses which vended it, than to its cons