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NEW SOUTH W A LES. 



Mr. Threlkeld, like many others in the colony, had convict servants 

 assigned for the use of the station. It is thought almost impossible 

 for a settler to manage his affairs without them, and it is somewhat 

 curious to see a clergyman associated and in daily intercourse with 

 thieves and abandoned felons. There is scarcely a person in com- 

 fortable circumstances, who has not derived much of his fortune from 

 their exertions, although not without suffering very much from the 

 constant vexations attendant on such aid. Mr. Threlkeld had hired 

 a family of emigrants as intermediate assistants, but he was doubtful 

 if he had benefited himself by it. 



The difference between the two kinds of servants is great. The 

 convict, on the one hand, is obliged to do the work his master ap- 

 points, and in the exact manner he directs; but the master suffers 

 from his vices and dishonesty ; and on the other hand, the emigrant 

 is under all his English prejudices : self-willed, and conscious of his 

 superiority over the other servants, he will not be driven, and is 

 hardly to be coaxed into adopting the necessary alterations which the 

 difference of soil and climate requires. Both try, in no small degree, 

 the temper of a settler in New South Wales. 



At Mr. Threlkeld's, Mr. Hale saw M'Gill, who was reputed to be 

 one of the most intelligent natives ; and his portrait was taken by Mr. 

 Agate. His physiognomy was much more agreeable than that of the 

 other blacks, being less strongly marked with the peculiarities of his 

 race. He was about the middle size, of a dark chocolate colour, with 



