umption, that the most rigid
moralists of the day would object.]

[Footnote 106: Letter to Lord Sidmouth.]

[Footnote 107: _Surgeon-superintendent Reid's Voyages to New South
Wales._]

[Footnote 108: Cunningham.

The following is a picture of things as they were:--"The madames on
board, occupy the few days which elapse before landing in preparing the
most dazzling effect, on their descent upon the Australian shore." "With
rich silk dresses, bonnets _a la mode_, ear pendants, brooches long,
gorgeous shawls and splendid veils, silk stockings, kid gloves, and
parasols in hand, dispensing sweet odours from their profusely perfumed
forms--they are assigned as servants. The settler expected a servant,
but receives a princess."--_Mudie's Felonry._

This is doubtless the language of caricature; but the extravagant
pretensions of many, could be scarcely exaggerated.]

[Footnote 109: Bigge.]

[Footnote 110: Bigge.]

[Footnote 111: Bennet, p. 77.]

[Footnote 112: _Phillip's Voyages_, 1789.]

[Footnote 113: Macquarie's commission.]

[Footnote 114: _Abstract of the Emigrant and Emancipist Population in
the year_ 1820, _with a schedule of Property belonging to them_:
_compiled from the statements of the Emancipists._

--------------------------------+----------------+-------------+
1820. | Emancipists. | Emigrants |
--------------------------------+----------------+-------------+
POPULATION-- | | |
Adults | 7,556 | 1158 |
Children | 5,859 | 878 |
|----------------+-------------+
| 13,415 | 2,436 |
| 2,436 |=============|
|----------------+ |
Excess of Emancipists | 10,979 | |
|================| |
PROPERTY-- | | |
Acres in cultivation | 29,023 | 10,737 |
Ditto in pasture | 212,335 | 198,369 |
Houses in towns | 1,200 | 300 |
Cattle | 42,988 | 28,582 |
Sheep | 174,179 | 8,739 |
Horses | 2,415 |