from the neighboring mainland, 15. Looking therefore to the success, which has hitherto attended the measures taken to consolidate our establishments and keep at bay the criminal population hovering in the vicinity, I must say that as an old servant of the Crown, I greatly regret to find Her Majesty's Government assuming the very serious responsibility of interrupting an important experiment that is now in progress.
I would regret it because I feel that, if such instructions were issued to me, it would probably be owing to the defective view which I had placed before Her Majesty's Government. I do not consider that as yet I have received instructions to discontinue the existing system of deporting and branding at least such criminals as may solicit it, and may be fitting objects for such clemency.
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