son was far from rejecting as an
instrument of correction--"cheap and expeditious:" in short, his was a
plan of slavery, and which conveyed semi-magisterial powers to the
overseers, and gave them a profit on the labor they might exact.

Henderson had become sultanised by living in India: he was attached to
the spirit of its government; the legal formalities, which delight an
Englishman, seemed to him the degradation of rank, and a pernicious
license to inferiors. In his imaginary commonwealth, he saw but two
classes, which, in the language of the East, he distinguished as the
"head and the hand." He thought the judges should be required to aid the
governors by their interpretations of the law; who, at the close of
their administration, might be tried by their peers, and, if found
wanting, handed over to everlasting shame! Thus, his plan embodied the
spirit of caste, of orientalism, and of the India House. He had no
simpering tenderness for the prisoner, while he attributed to the upper
classes an innate rectitude and self control, such as the British
records of the East will hardly sustain. His speculations are worth
remembering, for the contrast of their _animus_ with those of
Maconochie, and for the analogy in their details.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 221: The petition to the Commons prayed an enquiry into the
efficacy of transportation to New South Wales as a secondary punishment:
whether it should be continued, and under what alterations of the
present system; or, if discontinued, in what manner, &c.--_Petition_,
1836.]

[Footnote 222: It was not much better in England: the Rev. J. Clay
stated, that in Preston there were 422 dwellings, inhabited by 2,400
persons, sleeping in 852 beds; that is an average of five and a
fractional part as follows:--84 cases 4 in a bed; 28 cases 5, 13 cases
6, 3 cases 7, 1 case 8; one family of 8 on bed frames, covered with a
little straw.--_Health of Towns Commission_, 1844.]

[Footnote 223:

_Dr._ _Cr._
A. 3 marks for getting drunk. | B. 1 mark for punctual at
C. 2 marks for losing part of his | church.
Sunday clothes. | D. 2 marks for general
E. 5 marks for wantonly assaulting F.| steadiness and obedience.
-- | F. 3 marks for self command
10 | under grievous provocation.
6 | --
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