the same offence, and by the same
sentence."--_Barnes: Par. Pap._

"Bryan Taylor, a convict holding a ticket-of-leave, having taken the
Lord's name in vain, was ordered to be confined in his majesty's gaol
for one week.

"Thomas Higgins, a constable, was found guilty of a rape, and was
sentenced to be dismissed from his office, and transported for the
remainder of his original term.

"Ralph Jacobs, found guilty of stealing one sheep; sentenced to receive
fifty lashes, and to be returned to government.

"William Blunt, and another, for burglary and violence; sentenced one
hundred lashes, and transported for their original term."--_Gazette_,
Dec. 1821.]

[Footnote 144: _Ross's Almanack_, 1831.]

[Footnote 145: "The sight was awfully grand. The pilot commanded all
below, but I said I should like to see the end of it: they counted off
eleven feet; we drew seven and a half: there were but seven in the
hollow of the sea! At this moment a large billow carried us forward on
its raging head. The pilot's countenance relaxed: he looked like a man
reprieved under the gallows."--_Backhouse's Narrative._]

[Footnote 146: Barnes: _Par. Pap._, 1837.]

[Footnote 147: Ibid.]

[Footnote 148: _Tasmanian Journal_, vol. ii. p. 205.]

[Footnote 149: _Backhouse's Narrative._]

[Footnote 150: Ibid.]

[Footnote 151: They called to the men, as they ascended the
scaffold--"Good-by, Bob; good-by, Jack."--_Par. Pap._]

[Footnote 152: To describe this region, requires the awful coloring of
Milton:--

"Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death,
Where all life dies; death lives; and nature breeds
Perverse; all monstrous, all prodigious things;
_Abominable_; UNUTTERABLE!"

_Paradise Lost_, book ii.]

[Footnote 153: _Sydney Cove, 17th July_, 1790.

"The consequence of a failure of a crop, when we no longer depend upon
any supplies from Great Britain, will be obvious; and to guard against
which is one reason for my being so desirous of having a few settlers,
to whom, as the first, I think every possible encouragement should be
given. In them I should have some resource, and amongst them proper
people might be found to act in different capacities, at little or no
expense to government; for, as the number of convicts and others
increase, civil magistrates, &c. will be necessary."]

[Footnote 154: _Par. Papers_, 1792; quoted by Saxe Bannister, Esq.]

[Footnote 155: Besides the reference in Collins, s