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could not be persuaded to visit the Government house when intelligence arrived that his lady had brought him another child.
The English reader will almost be lost in astonishment, after all the tales which have been so industriously related to the mother country of the immoral state of the Colonists, free and bond, to learn that during the times the forces being were in the field, not a single convict out of one thousand was guilty of any act of insubordination, and of on the return of such a mass to their various and distant homesteads, not a single theft, robbery, or act of violence was committed.
As might be have been expected, directly after Sir George Arthur had returned to the capital, at the instance of numerous and respectable gentlemen, A. F Kemp Esq taking the lead, public Meetings were called at Hobart Town, Launceston, and the Districts, voting thanks to His Excellency for his unwearied attention in the field, and the concern he had evinced for the safety of the Colonists, and his regard for humanity on behalf of the Blacks. For once, on this