This is doubtless the language of caricature; but the extravagant pretensions of many, could be scarcely exaggerated.
[109] Bigge.
[110] Bigge.
[111] Bennet, p. 77.
[112] Phillip's Voyages, 1789.
[113] Macquarie's commission.
[114] Abstract of the Emigrant and Emancipist Population in the year 1820, with a schedule of Property belonging to them: compiled from the statements of the Emancipists.
| 1820. | Emancipists. | Emigrants. |
| Population— | ||
| Adults | 7,556 | 1,558 |
| Children | 5,859 | 878 |
| 13,415 | 2,436 | |
| 2,436 | ||
| Excess of Emancipists | 10,979 | |
| Property— | ||
| Acres in cultivation | 29,023 | 10,737 |
| Ditto in pasture | 212,335 | 198,369 |
| Houses in towns | 1,200 | 300 |
| Cattle | 42,988 | 28,582 |
| Sheep | 174,179 | 8,739 |
| Horses | 2,415 | 1,553 |
| Swine | 18,563 | 6,804 |
| Vessels | 15 | 8 |
| Capital in trade | £150,000 | £100,000 |
| Total estimated Property | £1,123,600 | £526,136 |
| 526,136 | ||
| Excess in favor of Emancipists: | £597,464 | |
| rather more than as 2 to 1 | ||
[115] "Now, in matters of opinion, man is like a pig: if you force him on he retrogrades. If you are really serious in attaining a point, make him believe the reverse is your object in view. Governor Macquarie, finding a number of demurrers to his opinion, instead of coaxing them into his views, looked upon them as his personal enemies, and often treated them as such."—Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 112.
[116] Bigge's Report.