[13] From Hobart Town Mercury, January 21, 1868, copied from the Sydney Morning Herald.
[14] See Mr. Wentworth’s speech at the dinner to Sir John Young, reported in the Times in June 1868.
[15] See Argus of July 26, 1855.
[16] See Lord Grey’s Colonial Policy of the Administration of Lord J. Russell, vol. ii. p. 18. The average annual number of convicts sent to Van Diemen’s Land, from 1840 to 1845, was no less than 3,527 annually (see p. 5).
[17] Sismondi, Ital. Rep. vol. ii. ch. xi. p. 212.
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Punctuation errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in spelling, grammar, capitalisation, and hyphenation are as they appear in the original publication except where noted below:
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