NEW SOUTH WALES, 
the principal advantages experienced from the iifual 
mode of tranfportation. — The deliberations upon this 
fubje6tj which more than once employed the attention 
of ParHament, produced at length the plan of which this 
volume difplays the firft refult. On December 6, 1786, 
the proper orders were iffued by his Majerty in Council, 
and an Ad eftablifliing a Court of Judicature in the place 
of fettlement, and making fuch other regulations as the 
occafion required, received the fandion of the whole 
legillature early in the year 1787. 
To expatiate upon the principles of penal law is 
foreign to the purpofe of this v/ork, but thus much is 
evident to the plaineft apprehenlion, that the objedls 
moft to be defired in it are the reftridion of the number 
of capital infli£lions, as far as is conliftent with the 
fecurity of fociety ; and the employment of every method 
that can be devifed for rendering the guilty f)erfons fer- 
viceable to the public, and juft to themfelves; for corre6ling 
their moral depravity, inducing habits of induilry, and 
arming them in future againfl: the temptations by which, 
they have been once enfnared. 
For efFecluating thefe beneficial purpofes, well regu- 
lated penitentiary houfes feem, in fpeculation, to afford 
the faireft opportunity ; and a plan of this kindy 
formed by the united efforts of Judge Blackllone, Mr. 
Eden., 
