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Appendix No. 2.
NUMBER of Male Convicts sent to the Australian Colonies within the under- mentioned periods, from the commencement of each Colony.
12 years, from 1788 to Dec. 31, 1799
4441
.) 4,564
per
Average
Aunum.
4,564
380
10
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1809
2,607
:
2,607
260
/
10
D
"
1819
8,552
1,460
10,012
1,001
10
"
1829 11,880
8,722
20,602
2,060
10
#
1839
10
"
"
18,715
1849 2,307 19,426
17,222
35,937
3,593
21,733
2,173
5
"
1854
297
5,142
3,176
8,615
1,723
1)
JJ
1855
485
485
22
1856
498
498
48,922
51,972
4,159 105,053
Average of 69 years
1,522
!
This table is compiled from three sources: 1st, up to the year 1837 from
a Return appended to the Commons' Report of 1838; up to the year 1847 from a manuscript return procured from the Home Office; from thence to the present time from documents in the Colonial Office.
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Appendix No. 3.
SOME statistics of New South Wales in 1810, twenty-two years after its first settlement; compiled from Returns appended to Report of a Committee of the House of Com- mons on Transportation, 1812.
Population
(Of these about 7,000 appear to have been
convicts, and 3,450 free),
Horses
Horned cattle
Sheep
Swine
Acres in cultivation
10,452
1,114
11,276
32,818
8,992
7,274
Gross expense in the 13 years from 1798 to 1810 (the earlier years not given in the Committee's Appendix):
Transport.
Stores, Provisions, and Establishments.
Total.
£
Average per annum
277,907
21,877
£ 1,233,236
94.864
£ 1,511,143
116,241
The following Statement is quoted in the "Edinburgh Review," 1819, from a letter addressed to Lord Sidmouth, by the Hon. H. Grey Bennet, M.P.:
"The Colony of New South Wales, from 1788 to 1815 inclusive, has cost this country the enormous sum of 3,465,9831."
Some similar statistics are subjoined, from the latest Returns, viz., 1855, connected with Western Australia:
Population
(Of these 9,300 free, and 8,536 convicts).
Horses
Horned cattle
Sheep
Swine
Acres in cultivation
·
12,836
4,887
21,083
184,114-
5,309
13,682
Stores,
Transport.
Provisions, and Establishments.
Total.
£
£
£
84,180*
322,525
406,705
Average per annum
16,836
64,505
81,341
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This sum is assumed by a computation at the rate of 237. a-head for 3,6CO convicts.
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