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Aug 16 1791
Sir
I have read over with care your Proposition for conveying convicts &c & am satisfied The means you propose are sufficient as far as provisions and clothing will go to supply them properly on their voyage out in as economical a manner as Government can easily find the means of doing unless as they have lately done they intrust them to the care of Contractors whose principal objects are very different & who as their principal profit is to be obtaind after the Convicts are set on shore to be fulfilled after they are set on shore & who are their chief will always therefore regard the care of them as a secondary consideration.
it appears clear however from the remarkable healthyness of the crews that went out with Governor Philip and from the as remarkable unhealthyness of some transports that have arrivd since that the good sence & Personal attention of the Commander to enforce cleanliness and order among these unfortunate people is the principal cause of the success with which they can be carried out. Government is always ready to allow the necessary expence but not always able to find out proper people to take charge of the ships.