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Some Remarks on the present state of the Colony of Sidney in New South Wales & on the means most likely to render it a productive instead of an expensive Settlement.
The Colony of New South Wales Sidney at its first establishment may not unaptly be compard to a new born infant hanging at its Mothers breast, it derivd its whole nourishment from the Vitals of its Parent & the exhaustion it occasiond was not unfelt, in this state it was tolerated only because no other expedient could be devisd for disposing of those Malefactors, whom the policy of the Country found it necessary to expell from Society, and whom the American States, from an ill considerd pevishness of disposition, refusd at that time to receive as they formerly had done.
Its present state may be compard to that of a young Lad, beginning to attain some learning, but between the intervals of his Schooling gaining by his industry part of his necessary maintenance & certain of Soon becoming a blessing instead of a burthen to his Family, if a little attention only is given to the Direction of his Resources Talents & the advancement of his world by interest.
In this stage he submits without a symptom of dissatisfaction to the will of his Parents; the Laws by which he is governd are Ordinances, either emanating from the will of his Great Father the King in the form of instructions to the Governor, or in Proclamations issuing from the Governor himself as the Kings Representative, these he obeys punctualy chearfully, from a sense of the great benefits he yet continues to receive, in Supplies of Provisions Clothes &c. sent to him from home, at no small expence, he will however soon be in a situation to provide for himself & when that time comes, he will listen with avidity to the first person who reads to him that chapter in Blackstone which declares, that a Briton inherits as his birth right the Constitution of England & carries this inheritance with him to every new Country he may think fit to settle in.