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[exempli]fied on board the Calcutta, where out of 307 Convicts there were but 8 carpenters and joiners, 3 smiths, one gardener, 20 labouring farmers, two fishermen, 9 taylors, and 4 Stone masons, the remainder may be classed under the head of gentlemens servants, Hair dressers, Hackney coach men, chainmen, silk weavers, Callico printers, lapidaries, watch makers, merchants clerks, and gentlemen.
It requires no argument to demonstrate the little use any of these trades can be in an infant colony, where agriculture is almost the sole pursuit, and where manual labour is infinitely more necessary than ingenuity. With respect to gentlemen convicts, they are worse than useless, they are invariably troublesome as the present government of New South Wales