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a life course of vigilance and industry. A In a
society composed of military men, a character of this sort could
not reasonably be expected to be equally universal. found equally prevalent.
In America the masters own choice had in every instance fixed him,
for and for life, in that employment which for the purpose of which he
took upon himself to purchase the interest in question
in the Convict's service. In New South Wales, the
time of life profession of the species of master in question was is
of the number of those, which are embraced rather more frequently
through disinclination, more frequently than through any prediliction, for to active industry: —
The hopes and wishes thoughts and wishes and separation all
along reflected pointing homewards the whole time: — - and the continuance
of the situation, by which affords the demand for such
assistance, compulsive service is afforded, short-lived and precarious. Assistance Service
that was to be had for nothing would seldom be not naturally
indeed, in that <add>situation</add> , any more than in any other, situation be refused: but in such circumstances it is not
to be supposed that any such profit advantage would, upon upon an
average to be derived from it, as would be commonly
observed has been generally extracted in America, under the old transportation system
would have been generally extracted, by a purchasing Master, from the service of his
Convict purchased Bondsman.
This much as to the relation of the degree of pecuniary interest on the part of the Master, and the quantity and quality of the effect it may be expected to have on the pecuniary value of the service labour of the Convict Bondsman. servant. But, (setting aside severity and excessive the rare and extreme cases, If
such as that of labour, - the extracted to in such excess as to shorten
the thread of life) the moral interest of the Convict Bondsman
and the pecuniary interest of the purchasing Master will (one may venture to say,) be found pretty exactly
to coincide: since the more steadily a man's time and thoughts
are occupied in profitable labour, even though the profit be
not his own, the more effectually they are will all along be diverted from all
unlawful objects: and the general, that the consequence is that, which the fortune of the Master
is receiving more improvement from the labour of the once criminal
workman, the moral habits of the workman himself will
in the same proportion be receiving improvement from the same cause.
The emancipated Convicts, under the name of Settlers, were constituted indeed that class of masters, who, under the authority of the Governor, on the same gratuitous terms as in the case of the Officers, or for wages, on the footing of servants a free contract, shared in a considerable proportion whatever benefit was to be reaped from labour of their Convict Bondsmen fellow Convicts, during their respective penal terms in some instances, and in many indeed as well as in other instances, after the expiration of those terms. But, in the way of moral improvement, as well as steady industry, still less benefit (it is evident) was to be expected from this source than from the other. Accordingly, of the Hawksbury Settlement is (in a passage Your Lordship has already seen), p.467 Ao 1796) stated by the late Chief Magistrate as the only one of all the settlements "where any prospect of agricultural advantage was to be found," it is moreover stated (in another passage which Your Lordship has also seen p.487) that "the Settlers there were found oftimes employed in carousing before the fronts of their houses than in labouring themselves, or superintending the labour of their servants on their grounds."
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