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cannot tell, unless it is by being in a state of dependance.
If I was in England, and was asked for my advice, which would be the best way for to proceed, for a person going to New South Wales for to settle. I would say, get a place under government, no matter what, so if you had the charge of a body of workmen, property, &c that you might at times apply to your own use, when you thought fit, this, together with a grant of land, and other grants, and stock which you could easily purchase, would very shortly make you a man of great consequence, and be respected by far more than the nobility are at home.
Though a police is kept, yet it dare not answer the purpose as what one would be led to suspect, for according to the nature of the people, one would imagine that they were confined to certain birth; but this is not the case, for many are suffered to live out of the general bounds. And what is more singular, some of them have been strongly suspected, and their houses have been frequently scorched, but as nothing was found upon them, they could nothing (according to custom) could be done to them; yet still they are received with a jealous eye. This appears to me to be an idle saying, for as they have violated the laws of their country, and remaining under their sentence, what can be more easy than putting a stop to them? viz. removing them to such places as where they could not avoid the wattle.
I have observed of late that some great men have become popular among the convicts. I was at a loss to account for this, for I well knew that such popularity would have little weight in England, but I have since found that it was productive of interested views here, by getting their wants supplied. But if