te 33: _Wentworth's New South Wales_, p. 210.]

[Footnote 34: _Flinders_, vol. i.]

[Footnote 35: _Narrative:_ published by authority of the Admiralty,
1818.]

[Footnote 36: "We arrived in October, 1803: my pen is not able to
describe half the beauties of that delightful spot: we were four months
there. Much to my mortification, as well as loss, we were obliged to
abandon the settlement, through the whim and caprice of the
Lieutenant-Governor: additional expense to government, and additional
loss to individuals, were incurred by removing to Van Diemen's Land,
which _can never be made to answer_. Port Phillip is my favorite, and
has my warmest wishes. During the time we were there, I never felt one
ache or pain, and I parted from it with more regret than I did from my
native land." The following is the endorsement of this letter:--"Dated
May 23rd, 1805; received October 10th, 1805--half a year! From an
officer's wife, Mrs. Hartley (quere Hopley?), to her sister."--_Collection
of Letters, for a History of New South Wales. By a Merchant._ London:
Valpy, 1812.]

[Footnote 37: Report of Commons on Transportation, 1812.]

[Footnote 38: _Phillip's Voyage_, p. 95.]

[Footnote 39: The reader will not be displeased to see the whole
passage. On the 22nd of March, 1775, upon moving his resolutions for
conciliation with America, Edmund Burke thus addressed the house:--

"Mr. Speaker,--I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over this great
consideration. It is good for us to be here. We stand where we have an
immense view of what is, and what is past. Clouds indeed, and darkness
rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from the noble
eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has
happened within the short period of the life of man: it has happened
within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch
the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all
the stages of the progress. He was in 1704, of an age, at least, to be
made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough--_acta parentum
jam legere et quae sit poterit cognoscere virtus_. Suppose, Sir, that the
angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues which made
him one of the most amiable, as he is one of the most fortunate men of
his age, had opened to him in vision, that when in the fourth generation
the third prince of the house of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the
throne of tha