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may in time prove a second Poland, by becom- 

 ing the Granary of the World ! ! ! 



The difficulties the officers have, from the 

 foundation of the Colony had to combat, de- 

 serves absolute pity, for what a scene of misery 

 has been their portion, born and educated in 

 affluence, nurtured in splendour, and accus- 

 tomed to elegance, fashion, politeness, and all 

 the enjoyments of refined life ; we find them 

 snatched suddenly away, and placed through 

 national necessity, between a numerous body of 

 vile convicts, and an innumerable body of sa- 

 vages, with only the very slender barrier of a 

 few military. Thus situated, their strength 

 could only be increased by the very few of those 

 convicts returning to a proper knowledge of 

 themselves. Dangerous indeed must be ima* 

 gined, the situation of these gentlemen, and 

 dangerous indeed it was ; but fortunately their 

 own conduct was such, that ensured them re- 

 spect, fear and love at the same time, and bad 

 indeed as the convicts have been found, from 

 the beginning to the end of the History of the 

 Colony, not one has been found so lost, as to 

 offer any personal injury to any of the officers. 

 In continuing this- retrospect, the poor na- 

 tives next interest my attention : their natures, 

 which are naturally savage, could but ill brook 

 being driven from any part of their native coun- 

 try, and though offered no personal violence, 

 at the foundation of the Colony, that spirit of 

 revenge, so truly congenial to their natures, 

 manifested itself by far too powerfully on every 



