The Governmental Regulation of Emigration to the Colonies from the United Kingdom, 1815-1853

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University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1914 - Всего страниц: 210

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Стр. 21 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant ; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Стр. 84 - The country which has founded and maintained these Colonies at a vast expense of blood and treasure, may justly expect its compensation in turning their unappropriated resources to the account of its own redundant population ; they are the rightful patrimony of the English people, the ample appanage which God and Nature have set aside in the New World for those whose lot has assigned them but insufficient portions in the Old.
Стр. 30 - The experience furnished by these penal settlements has proved that transportation is capable of being carried to an extent of suffering such as to render death desirable, and to induce many prisoners to seek it under its most appalling aspects.
Стр. 29 - They are locked up from sunset to sunrise in the caravans or boxes used for this description of persons, which hold from 20 to 28 men, but in which the whole number can neither stand upright nor sit down at the same time (except with their legs at right angles to their bodies), and which, in some instances, do not allow more than 18 inches in width for each individual to lie down upon...
Стр. 32 - I said a few words to induce them to resignation ; and I then stated the names of those who were to die ; and it is a remarkable fact...
Стр. 61 - ... specially appointed to consider the subject, threatens, in its extreme tendency, to absorb the whole rental of the country. And that in Ireland, where no such parochial rate exists by law, and where the redundancy is found in a still greater degree, a considerable part of the population is dependent for the means of support on the precarious source of charity, or is compelled to resort to habits of plunder and spoliation for the actual means of subsistence.
Стр. 60 - That the effect of this redundancy is not only •to reduce a part of this population to a great degree of destitution and misery, but also to deteriorate the general condition of the labouring classes : — That by its producing a supply of labour in excess as compared with the demand, the •wages of labour are necessarily reduced to a minimum, which...
Стр. 82 - It is far from my purpose, in laying these facts before Your Majesty, to discourage emigration to Your North American colonies. On the contrary, I am satisfied that the chief value of those colonies to the mother country consists in their presenting a field where millions even, of those who are distressed at home, might be established in plenty and happiness. All the gentlemen whose evidence I have last quoted, are warm advocates of systematic emigration. I object, along with them, only to such emigration...
Стр. 7 - Twas grief to nature honourably true. And long, poor wanderers o'er the ecliptic deep, The song that names' but home 'shall make you weep ; Oft shall ye fold your flocks by stars above In that far world, and miss the stars ye love ; Oft when its tuneless...
Стр. 27 - ... disappointment. The discipline and control of the convicts in Van Diemen's Land is carried, perhaps, to a higher degree, than could ever have been contemplated. Many of the convicts have been greatly reformed, when in the service of considerate and judicious masters; but, with all this abatement, there is so much peculation, so much insubordination, insolence, disobedience of lawful orders, and so much drunkenness, that reference to the magisterial authority is constant, and always attended with...

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