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I Reformation
General testimonies
of depravity Octr 1796 Most
atrocious crimes
frequent. Convicts
dissipated, turbulent,
and abandoned.

2 Octr 1796 Far too
many incorrigibles.
Rowdy jail gang.

3. Octr Reformation
dispaired of by the
Governor.

4 Fb Feb. 1797. Independent
Expirees
600: - so many
enemies to public
security.

5. Oct. 1797 Crimes
increase.

6. March 1798. The
Colony of a nest
of villains - punishments
produce no
effect - levity as
little. Importation
of good characters,
importation of
bad, the sole resource
observations.

7. Apr. 1798. Settlers
without distinction
undeserving.

8. Oct. 1799 1798. Reformation
more &
more hopeless every
day, notwithstanding
the strictness of the
police.

9. Feb. 1799. Future
punishments generally
disregarded.

10. May 1799. Convict
Robt Lowe emancipated
for good behaviour
on ships board, & trusted
with stock embezzles it
Backsliding general.

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I Reformation
General testimonies
of depravity. July 1799
Night Robberies increase
Watchmen
and Constables negligent
or accomplices.
for
rewards for
and associations
for vigilance
produce little
effect.

12. Dec. 1799. Wishes
for the future
but without hopes.

13. June 1800. Crimes
still increasing
notwithstanding
increase of executions.

II. General depravity
in Females.
1. July 1798. Females
lazy idle and insolent
their vices
their children
an excuse for
laziness.

2. Aug. 1798. Women far
worse than the men.

3. Oct. 1798. Spirits and
women the two irresistible
temptations.

4. Women refractory &
disobedient, complaints
of these incessant.

5. July 1798. Women far
worse than the men -
recognized so in public
orders. are at the
bottom of every crime.

6. Nov. 1799. Women through
indulgence to their sex
escape doing service.

7. Feb. 1800. Women corrupt
the Soldiery - driven to
desperation by a bad
women a good soldier
destroys himself.

8 Apr. 1800. Cargo of
Women Convicts spoken of as a bad
cargo.

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I Reformation
III Depravity - particular
exemplifications
1. Oct 1796. Five murders
in one year
evidence unobtainable.

2. Jan. 1799. Burglary
in the Commissary
House.

3 Jan. 1799. Several
hundred poundsworth
stolen lately
by a nest of thieves.
observations no
particular
crimes noticed except
incendiarism.



IV - Exemplifications
continued - Incendiarism.

1 Jan. 1797 Stack of
Government wheat
burnt - other stacks
saved by the exertions
of a Jail Gang bought
by a universal pardon.
Country universally
combustible.
Cause of burning
wheat, the hope of
selling wheat to
replace it.
Evidence unobtainable.

2. Dec. 1797. A settler
being in debt sees
his crop burnt &
is beaten by unknown
enemies with blackened
faces.

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I Reformation
IV Exemplifications
continued - Incendiarism.

3. Dec. 1797. House
burnt by unknown
incendiaries - universal
combustability.

4 Oct 1798. Church,
used also as a
School, burnt to
avoid attendance.

5 Oct<hi rend="underline">r</hi> 1798. Hospital
burnt.

6 Jan 1799. Sydney Gaol
burnt. Evidence generally
unobtainable.

7. Dec. 1799. Parramatta
Gaol burnt. Evidence
unobtainable - spite
of rewards.



V. Prevalence of Sloth.

1. Feb. 1797. Convicts pay
1/3 of their grain to
save the trouble of
grinding.

2. June 1797. Convicts
deserting to avoid
work return half
starved. The sight
prevents not other
desertions from the
same cause.

3 March 1799. Daily
bread
produce no exertions:
spirits given as a
reward the utmost
exertions.
Settlers - their
sloth renders them
mostly a dead expence
to government.

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I. Reformation
V. Prevalence of Sloth.

4 Dec. 1799. Vagrancy
preferred to 5s/ a day
and provisions.

5. Aug. 1801. General
sloth an insufferable
obstacle to
good management.


VI. Prodigality and
Improvidence

1. Feb. 1797. Settlers run
in debt for spirits
to the value of their
farms.

2. March 1798. Settlers
run in debt £868.

3. Want of market for
buying. Trifling
luxuries purchased
and farms left destitute.
Governors
exhortations contra
22s for cup & saucer.
governor spirit


4. Want of market for
buying hence monopolies
and excessive prices.

5. Corn begged for seed
then sold for spirits.

6. Convicts prodigal and
improvident.
Settlers do
Non-Convicts, as
well as Convict Expirees.

7. Bond Street finery
imported and sold
Colony drained of
cash by an Irish
Ship from England
& Rio de Janeiro.

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I Reformation
VII Remedies unavailing
temporal
Rewards and
Punishments

1. October 1796. Evidence
unobtainable in
murder.

2. Dec. 1797. Evidence
unobtainable in
Incendiarism -
(private wheat stack)
Spite of rewards
(freedom on the ground)
and Governor's exhortations.
See Incendiarism
No-

3. May 1798. Evidence
unobtainable in
Bull calf stealing
spite of rewards.

4. Octr 1798 Evidence
unobtainable in
Church burning
Rewards £30 and
free return.

5. Jan. 1799 Executions
numerous - police
vigilant - Magistrates
and Governor active-
yet depravity unabated.

6. Oct. 1799 Evidence unobtainable
in ox stealing
reward free return.

7. Dec. 1799. Evidence unobtainable
in incendiarism
(Parramatta
Gaol) rewards as before.

8 July 1800 Executions
still unavailing.

9 March 1797 No travelling
without a passport-
to be inspected in
each district - discipline
thus galling
ineffectual.

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