380 ENTIRE REMOVAL OF CONVICTS. 
It appeared from this account that Field, an 
old convict, who had remained in charge of the 
cattle, &c. on Norfolk Island, had made himself 
so useful as a shepherd, and teacher of farming, 
that the islanders recommended him to the 
Governor of Van Diemen's Land for this 
purpose. They viewed Field as a reformed 
man ; and their letter on the subject was of a 
truly benevolent and Christian kind, though 
perhaps wanting in that prudence and caution 
so important in their peculiar position. 
Field thus obtained a ticket of leave, and the 
prospect of a conditional pardon ; he having 
been under sentence for life for sheep-stealing. 
On the sailing of the Moray slur e from Norfolk 
Island, for Sydney, he was placed on board, and 
was received at the Sydney convict-department, 
with his provisional discharge about him. 
After an investigation of the case, and during a 
week's remand, an intimation was received from 
Sir William Denison, that he could not permit 
the man to be returned to Norfolk Island ; his 
Excellency having resolved to allow no convicts 
to be mixed up with the present inhabitants. 
In accordance with the Governor's directions, 
the sitting Magistrate at Sydney ordered Field 
to be returned to Hobart Town, and then 
handed over to the Comptroller-General of 
convicts. In taking this discreet step, the 
Governor said, that, for the object required by 
the community, some steady married man, 
with a family, might be induced to settle on the 
island. 
