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tain Bond ; and that this gentleman had left at Falfe Bay an American 

 brig, freighted on fpeculation with provifions for the colony. 



The fick^to the number of eighty, were immediately difembarked 

 from the Indiaman, and the remainder of her convicts were fent up to 

 Parramatta and the adjoining fettlement. At thefe places was to be 

 performed the great labour of clearing and cultivating the country ; s 

 and thither the Governor judged it neceflary at once to fend fuch con- 

 victs as (hould arrive in future, without permitting them to difem- 

 bark at Sydney; which town (from the circumflance of its being the 

 only place where (hipping anchored) pofTeffed all the evils and allure- 

 ments of a fea-port of fome flanding, and from which, if once they 

 got into huts, they would be with difficulty removed when wanted ; 

 they pleading the acquirement of comforts, of which, in fact, it would 

 be painful though abfolutely neceflary to deprive them. At once to 

 do away, therefore, the poflibility of any attachment to that part of 

 the colony, the Governor gave directions for their being immediately 

 fent from the fhip to the place of their future refidence and em- 

 ployment ; and, having no other expectation, they went with cheer- 

 ful nefs. 



It had always been an object of the firft" confequence, that the 

 people employed about the {lores, if not free, mould at lead have been 

 fo fituated as to have found it their intereft to rehft temptation. This 

 had never hitherto been accomplifhed ; capital and other exemplary 

 punimments did not effect it;, the (lores were conftantly robbed, al- 

 though carefully watched, and as well fectired as bolts, loeks, and' 

 iron faftenings could make them. The Governor, therefore, now- 

 adopted a plan which was fuggefted to him ; and, difcharging all 

 the convicts employed at the provifion-ftore, replaced them by 

 others, to whom he promifed, if they behaved well, abfolute eman^ 

 cipation at the end of a certain number of years, to be computed: 

 from the dates of their refpective arrivals in this country. 



If any thing could produce the integrity fo much to be defired,, 

 this meafure feemed the beft calculated for the purpofe ; an intereft 

 was created fuperior to any reward that could have been held out, a 



certain 



