| [SECTION I] | 101 |
Exile—Roman custom—abjuring the realm—Spaniards the first who transported—practice in the time of Elizabeth—James—Charles the second—James the second—George the first—America—kidnapping— America resists—numbers transported.
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| [SECTION II] | 106 |
State of English gaols—Howard—labor bill.
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| [SECTION III] | 108 |
Bentham's project—New South Wales occupied.
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| [SECTION IV] | 111 |
Voyage—surgeon-superintendents—convict ship—treatment of women—abuses—systems of management—Dr. Reid—Cunningham—Browning—general safety of convict vessels—loss of the George the Third—the Neva—the Governor Phillip.
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| [SECTION V] | 123 |
Early difficulties of convict management—assignment established—disposal of the prisoners.
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| [SECTION VI] | 129 |
Origin of bushranging—Howe—his career.
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| [SECTION VII] | 138 |
Habits of convict population—1824.
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| [SECTION VIII] | 143 |
The colonies re-act on each other—N. S. Wales—state of Parramatta—rocks—allurements of transportation—Macquarie's views—wealth and claims of emancipists—Biggs's views—pardons—emancipists form associations—petition parliament—their alleged reformation—Bigge's commission—Macquarie's recall—character—Rev. S. Marsden.
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| [SECTION IX] | 172 |
Bigge's recommendations—his reports—Macquarie Harbor—emigration proposed—demand for labor.
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| [SECTION X] | 186 |
Land granted to settlers employing convicts—large immigration of capitalists.
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| [SECTION XI] | 188 |
Assignment established in America—debarkation of prisoners—their identification—curious practice—law of assignment—transfer of servants.
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| [SECTION XII] | 194 |
Escapes from Macquarie Harbor—Brady—executions—state of colony—causes of bushranging.
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| [SECTION XIII] | 214 |
Macquarie Harbor—visit of Backhouse and Walker—seizure of the Cyprus—Frederic—Badger
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| [SECTION XIV] | 222 |
Escape of prisoners—seek for China—curious narrative—the Young Lachlan seized—penalty of escape.
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| [SECTION XV] | 228 |
Arthur's principles of penal government—number reclaimable—Arthur's system—view of the real state of prisoners—representation of society—of transportation—idea of New South Wales at home—writings of Archbishop Whately—Mr. Secretary Stanley's "certain and severe" system—tickets-of-leave.
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| [SECTION XVI] | 240 |
Disposal of mechanics and specials—convict clerks—wives of prisoners—Savary—Port Arthur—Boothe's system—Point Puer—young convicts.
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| [SECTION XVII] | 248 |
Views of ministers—certain severe system—conduct of
overseers—retaliation—executions—effects of immigration—colonial protests—curious contrast.
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| [SECTION XVIII] | 255 |
Convict system of New South Wales—Governor Bourke—corporal punishment—Major Mudie—Watt—abuses—Burton's charge—its effect—Molesworth's motion.
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| [SECTION XIX] | 263 |
Franklin's appointment—Maconochie's commission—his reports—his
opinions—his system—board refute him—different sources of his system—Dr. Henderson's scheme.
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| [SECTION XX] | 274 |
Remarks on Maconochie's system—partly erroneous—useful results of assignment—Franklin's opinions.
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| [SECTION XXI] | 278 |
Sir Wm. Molesworth's committee—stoppage of transportation to New South Wales—Archbishop Wheately's opinions—Bourke's views—exaggerations—Captain Wood—remonstrance—new plan for Norfolk Island—Maconochie appointed commandant—his mark system—the birthday—the Governor Phillip seized—failure of his system—opinions of Sir G. Gipps—of Captain Forster.
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| [SECTION XXII] | 291 |
Lord John Russell's plan—Sir Wm. Molesworth's proposal to anticipate the land fund—Mr. Innes's pamphlet—resolutions of the Commons—Captain Montagu's visit to England—assignment stopped—gangs formed—evils—Franklin's representations.
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| [SECTION XXIII] | 294 |
Lord Stanley's probation system—effects at Norfolk Island—insurrection—murders—Major Childs—cruelties—Earl Grey's orders.
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| [SECTION XXIV] | 305 |
System in Van Diemen's Land—large arrivals—incompetent officers—errors on which the system-was founded—Lord Stanley's defiance of the settlers—re-emigration—hiring depôts—representations of Forster—Hampton—Boyd—Fry—crimes increase—laxity of discipline—Mr. Bishton's views—North Australia—Mr. Latrobe—his representations—ticket system.
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| [SECTION XXV] | 318 |
Treatment of female prisoners—their transportation a great evil—numbers—Sir G. Murray's scheme.
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| [SECTION XXVI] | 321 |
Lord Stanley's directions for the disposal of women—Mrs. Bowden—married female prisoners.
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| [SECTION XXVII] | 323 |
Views of transportation often governed by interest—old system—incompatible objects sought—frequent changes—every theory contradicted by results—Arthur's opinion—progress from 1830—capital expended—value of convict labor—sacrifices of the settlers—effects of transportation—public works—numbers transported—character of convicts—repetition of crimes—views of statesmen—moral effects of transportation—cause of opposition to transportation.
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