I'J^l. A DESCRIPTION QF NORFOLK ISLAND. 9^f 



An Account of the Numher of Con'oiBs which have been 

 Jhipped from Englaftd for New South Wales, and of 

 the Number intended to he fent in the Ships now under 

 Orders for that Ser'vice ; made out purfuant to an 

 Order of the Honowahle Houfe of Commons^ Sated 

 c^th February, 1791. 



N7tmhers, 

 Convicts (hipped . - - 2,029 



Convifts intended to be fent in the fliips now 



under orders _ - _ 15836' ■ 



3.859 

 '^reafury Chambers^ "^ 



March 18, 1791. j Charles Long, 



^JJay on ths Manners of Europe in E,arly T!imes, 



Manners wth fortunes, humours turn with climes, 

 Tenets with books, and principles with times. 



Pope. 



Before the revival of letters, and the invention of 

 printing, the manners of Europe virere no lefs coarf«^ 

 than cruel. 



In the cartularies of Chjirlemagne, judges are forbid, 

 to hold courts, but in the morning, with an empty fto» 

 mach. It would appear, that men in thofe days were 

 not afhamed of being feen drvmk even in a court of juG*. 

 tice. 



It was cuftoipary both in France and Italy, to coU. 

 left for fport all the ftrumpets in the neighbourhood, 

 ind to make them run races. Struvius mentions % te- 



