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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

aus sireidental association.

with this Colony-

Ifancy Isee signs of a disposition at home to return to the systern of transportation, and if this be so,

whether the

ed on be the shores of

spot fired

ustaria, or some

the gulf of Carpentaria,

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 d

difficulty

the

enlargement of Victoria Gaol, and the establishment of a

perral settlement at Middle Island.

It may

also be well to

communicate on this

this subject

with the Chief Justice, and

place Mr. Beason's letter before bun, as His Houn

may

perhaps be able by alteration