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for of the number of those usually sentenced to transportation, the larger portion will be found to be Pirates, and as such all expense incurred on their account is connected with the general interest, and has only an incidental association with this Colony.
If any I see signs of a disposition at home to return to the system of transportation, and if this be so, whether the spot fixed be the shores of Australia, or some other uninhabited tract worth cultivation, it might be made available for convicts from China as well as Convicts from Britain.
But in the meantime I see in the proposition I have made above, the sole relief from our difficulty - the enlargement of Victoria Gaol, and the establishment of a penal settlement at Middle Island.
It may also be well to communicate on this subject with the Chief Justice, and place Mr. Beason's letter before him, as His Honour may perhaps be able by alteration