aving been
otherwise."--_Letter to Earl Bathurst_, 1813.]

[Footnote 122: _Reid's Voyage._]

[Footnote 123: This was afterwards prevented.]

[Footnote 124: _Macarthur's Present State._]

[Footnote 125: "Men are governed by words: under the infamous term
convict, are comprehended offenders of the most different degrees and
species of guilt. One man is transported for stealing three hams and a
pot of sausages; in the next berth to him, is a young surgeon engaged in
mutiny at the Nore; another, was so ill read in history, as to imagine
that Ireland was ill-treated, and too bad a reasoner to suppose that
nine catholics ought not to pay tithes to one protestant. Then comes a
man who set his house on fire; another, the most glaring of all human
villains, a poacher; driven from Europe, wife and child, by thirty lords
of the manor, for killing a partridge. Now, all these are crimes, no
doubt; but surely to which attach different degrees of contempt and
horror. A warrant granted by a reformed bacon stealer would be absurd;
but a hot brained young blockhead, who chose to favor the mutiny at the
Nore, may, when he is forty years of age, and has cast his jacobin
teeth, make a useful magistrate and loyal subject.

The most inflexible were some of the regiments stationed at Botany
Bay--men, of course, who had uniformly shunned the society of gamesters,
prostitutes, and drunkards; who had ruined no tailors, corrupted no
wives, and had entitled themselves, by a long course of solemnity and
decorum, to indulge in all the insolence of purity and virtue."--_Rev.
S. Smith_, 1823.]

[Footnote 126: Doe, on demise of Jenkins, _v._ Pearce and wife.]

[Footnote 127: 1814: 54 Geo. iii, took away the corruption of blood,
from children born after conviction, except in case of treason and
murder.--_Sydney Gazette_, 1818.]

[Footnote 128: _Bigge's Report._]

[Footnote 129: _Collins's New South Wales._]

[Footnote 130: Acts.]

[Footnote 131: 4 Geo. iv.]

[Footnote 132: Mr. Wentworth states the trials in the criminal court in
1806, as 117, in 1817, at 92; but then he asserts, that offences had
increased, subject to summary jurisdiction, from 300 to 1,000, while the
population (20,000) had only doubled. He was not, however, ignorant,
that many of those offences were not such in law or morals, but merely
violations of local regulations (_Wentworth_, 2nd edit.). The colonial
convictions were, with few exceptions, of persons who had been
t