THE GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION OF EMIGRATION TO THE COLONIES FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM 1815 to 1853 BY CLARENCE ALLAN HOLLISTER A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN 1914 -: INTRODUCTION : The purpose of this thesis is to make a brief study of the history of emigration, both reputable and disreputable, from the close of the Napoleonic Wars to the early fifties. The chief aim is to trace the policy of the The basis of the research British government in this matter during this period. The subject merits both a more intensive and extensive study than is possible at this time. work has been almost entirely Hansard's Parliamentary Debates and Rusden's History of Australia. Unfortunately the Library has not yet secured the Parliamentary Papers dealing with this subject during this period. It was necessary to use Rusden's work owing to the lack of material from Australian sources; yet this secondary work proved to be valuable because of the numerous quotations from the documentary (1) archives of Australia. The contemporary periodicals als0 proved valuable in so far as they quoted parliamentary reports and gave the views of the contemporary leaders in all walks of life. The study of these various documents, which reveal the vacillating policy of the British Government, seem to prove it worthy only of condemnation. The government, both in the case of transportation and of free emigration seemed never to be able to find itself on firm ground. It announced (1) Chiefly, the London Times, Quarterly Review, Edinburgh Revies, and Blackwood Magazine. |