Parliamentary Papers, Volume 22H.M. Stationery Office, 1838 |
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Halaman xviii - ... to perform the duties of the legal profession. When the farmers were once under the control of the individual, whose career Your Committee are describing, they were obliged to return to his house, till the amount of debt was such, that he feared lest it might surpass the value of their property. He then dispossessed them of their estates, and by this system of measures he had at one time obtained possession of a great proportion of the cultivated land in the colony of New South Wales. Such were...
Halaman xvi - I then stated the names of those who were to die ; and it is a remarkable fact that as I mentioned the names of those men who were to die, they one after another, as their names were pronounced, dropped on their knees, and thanked God that they were to be delivered from that horrible place, whilst the others remained standing mute. It was the most horrible scene I ever witnessed. Those who were condemned to death appeared to be rejoiced.
Halaman xvi - Let a man be what he will when he comes here, he is soon as bad as the rest ; a man's heart is taken from him, and there is given to him the heart of a beast.
Halaman xv - ... Report to Sir Richard Bourke on the state of Norfolk Island. And Sir George Arthur assured Your Committee that similar cases had recently occurred at Port Arthur. Sir Francis Forbes was then asked, " What good do you think is produced by the infliction of so horrible a punishment in Norfolk Island ; and upon whom do you think it produces good?" His answer was, " That he thought that it did not produce any good ; " and that, " if it were to be put to himself, he should not hesitate to prefer death,...
Halaman xiii - Land, the female convicts are employed in spinning, picking wool, and needle work; the punishment is said to be somewhat severe. Your Committee will delay their examination into the nature and number of the offences committed by male convicts to a subsequent portion of their Report. They will now proceed to examine merely the nature of the punishments inflicted, which, says Captain Maconochie, " are severe, even to excessive cruelty. Besides corporal punishment to the extent of 50 to 75 lashes, and...
Halaman 27 - 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 that as I mentioned the names of those men who were to die...
Halaman 275 - Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows :— 1.
Halaman iv - In New South Wales, on the contrary, the community was composed of the very dregs of society — of men proved by experience to be unfit to be at large in any society, and who were sent from the British gaols, and turned loose to mix with one another in the desert, together with a few taskmasters who were to set them to work in the open wilderness, and with the military who were to keep them from revolt. The consequences of this strange assemblage were vice, immorality, frightful disease, hunger,...
Halaman xix - ... might be assigned to his wife, and a boy who had stolen sixpence be flogged to death by some up-country monster! It was this uncertainty that was so bad — this was the feature that seemed so odious to the Commons Committee on Transportation in 1838. They spoke of 'the lottery of punishment...
Halaman ix - ... instance, in a private family, in the interior of either colony, a convict woman, frequently the only one in the service, perhaps in the neighbourhood, is surrounded by a number of depraved characters, to whom she becomes an object of constant pursuit and solicitation; she is generally obliged to select one man, as a paramour, to defend her from the importunities of the rest; she seldom remains long in the same place; she either commits some offence, for which she is returned to the Government;...