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N the view of emigrating to New South Wales, the compiler of the following work was led into an examination of the circumstances of that colony, in the course of which, he was particularly struck with the relation in which it stands to the mother country.

Destitute of, or producing in a very inconsiderable degree, any article of produce which might minister to the wants or comforts of Great Britain, and, consequently, incapable of maintaining with her that regular and natural intercourse between a colony and its parent state, which consists in the exchange of the raw produce of the one, for the manufactured commodities of the other, New South Wales seems, till very lately, to have been chiefly dependent on the expenditure of the money of Great Britain, in the subsistence of felons transported to its shores, and in the pay of the establishments necessary for their management and controul; and has, consequently, been considered rather as a necessary and expensive appendage to the judicial