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Title: [18 Jan y 1803 + (6 N o 7. p.268.]

Description: 18 Jan y 1803 + (6

N o 7. p.268. 19 th

February 1792. Intention executed. On this day

sailed for Canton, the Bellona. Into this ship had been received six

persons from the Settlement: two of them, Expirees, by permission; two others, Expirees

also, but without permission: the remaining two,

Non-Expirees. The four latter

it is stated that they had been "secreted": also

that they were "discovered"; "the ship "being ."

Thus they were accordingly re-landed at least, if not otherwise punished,

may be pretty safely

concluded, though not expressly mentioned.

Of the two Non-expirees

it is stated, that "they had "not yet served the full period of their sentences. From this it

seems not unreasonable to conclude that they would have their

full period would have arrived, before their arrival in Great Britain. If

so

neither then by their arrival, as with

is

any more than by their departure would have been

thing

they gone beyond the exercise of their (restored rights.

N o 9. p.268 15 February . 1793. At

this time the expectation "about the clause." . . in the Charter

"party, for preventing Shipmasters from receiving any "person. . .

from the Colony without the express consent "and order of the Governor,"

was found to be realized. The Bellona came provided with this Clause. She

had sailed from England on the 8 th of August

1792.

N o 9 p. 283. 24 th April 1793. Intention executed a second

time.

Sailed the Shah Hormurias and Chesterfield. But few

Convicts [Expirees] were " allowed to quit the

Colony in these ships. [the] The ships were two. On

a subsequent occasion in November 1794, the number received on

board

the same number of ships (the Endeavour and the

Fancy) had been near a hundred: whereof by

permission, 50; without permission near 50 more. ib., p. 398.

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Title: [18 Jan y 1803 + (7 N o 10. p. 316]

Description: 18 Jan y 1803 + (7

N o 10. p. 316. 2 dOctober

1793. Intention executed a third time.—

Sailed the Boddington and Sugarcane for Bengal: "From the Sugarcane

"were brought up this day ... two " Expirees: "they had

"got on board without permission. "... Punished with 90 "lashes each, and

sent up to Toongabbe."

In M r Collins 2 Volumes

In the continuation of the history, in express statements of

detention

. have been met with

. The historian not being at

this time present in the Colony, the

precision exhibited in the former volume no longer presents itself in

the same degree. During this latter period, [+]

[+] the conception which it seems to be the object to present to view, is

rather that of the removal of the restraint than the continuation of it.

It is not however the less perceptible, that

even at this time it was restraint that

constituted the general rub, and that whatever

instances of the exercise of the opposite liberty took place,

were the result of so many special

permissions, and constituted but so many exceptions to the rule.

the object seen impression that seems intended to be conveyed,

is that of the non-existence of removal of all restraints

any bar on the liberty of departure, in the case of Expirees. Grant

this It appears however notwithstanding, that the existence of this

liberty was by no means restraint was still the general rule, and

that liberty, though frequently granted took place not without

special permission, not any other-wise than as an exemption to the

general rule.

N o

11.

II p.11 6 th December 1796.

"Although they every day saw that this obstacle was thrown

in the way of the "Convict who had got through the

period of his transportation "with credit and a good character,

but that he was suffered to depart with the marks of any ship who would

receive "him, and a certificate given to him of his being a free man,

yet & By this it appears as plainly that

among Expirees themselves some were detained as well as others

there were some, to whom

the liberty of departure was refused, as it

does that there were others to whom it was granted.

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Title: [18 Jan y 1803 + (4 N o 3. p. 159.]

Description: 18 Jan y 1803 + (4

N o 3. p. 159. April 1791. Information given by the

Governor to the Convicts "that none would be permitted to "quit the

Colony who had wives and children incapable "of maintaining themselves and

likely to become burthensome

"to the settlement, until they had found sufficient "security for the maintenance of such wives or

children " as long as they might continue after them.

" Considering the latitude of the discretion assumed by some of these

terms, this notice may be considered as a pretty effectual embargo upon the

whole married part of the community of Expirees.

N o 4 p. 169. July 1792. Information given by the

Governor to the Expirees that those who wished not

to become Settlers in New South Wales were .." to work there for twelve or eighteen months

certain, and that afterwards " no

obstacles "would be thrown in the way of their return to England:" but

that as to assistance", for any such purpose

nobody was to expect it.

N o 5. p. 190. 3 d December

1791. Sailed the Active and Albermarle for India. After their departures,

Expirees were missing. "Previous to thus sailing the Governor was

aware "of an intention on the part of the Seamen to facilitate such

"their departure. He therefore instructed the Master, to "deliver any

persons whom he might discover to be on "board without

permission to quit the Colony, as prisoners "to the Commanding

Officer of the first British Settlement "they should touch at in India."

N o 6. p.208. April 1792 Expirees were by this

time, it is said became "numerous". To 14 of them, "the choice "of

the place where they (those freemen) "were to labour" (i.e. to be

forced to labour) is stated as "an indulgence."