ransported before: of 116 persons for trial at Hobart (1821), 79 were
then under sentence, and 37 expirees--the entire number.--_Bigge._]

[Footnote 133: "With regard to character and respectability allow me to
observe briefly, that while some are in general well-conducted persons,
little that is praiseworthy can be advanced: there is not much religion
among the best, and the far greater part have not the appearance of
it."--_Rev. Mr. Cowper, 1820._]

[Footnote 134: _Edinburgh Review_, 1803.]

[Footnote 135: "His sentences are not only more severe than those of
other magistrates, but the general opinion of the colony is, that his
character, as displayed in the administration of the penal law in New
South Wales, is stamped with severity."--_Bigge's Report._

Such was the idea of the people on the spot; but Mr. Wilberforce
observed, in the House of Commons, he was--"a man who acquired the
admiration of all who knew his merits; a man who shone as a bright
example to the moral world--who deserved the title of a moral hero: who
had overcome difficulties for the amelioration of his species, in the
most unfavorable circumstances; which would always endear his name to
the friends of humanity."--_Wentworth_, 3rd edit.]

[Footnote 136: "For my part, my only wonder is, that Mr. Redfern did not
apply some degrading chastisement to the nose or breech of this cowardly
Commissioner."--_Wentworth_, 3rd edit.]

[Footnote 137: Henderson, 1832.]

SECTION IX.

The duty of the Commissioner being discharged, it devolved on the home
government to gather, from the mass of facts he accumulated, those which
discovered abuses remediable, and to select for adoption the
recommendations of their chosen councillor. The changes he advised
amounted to a total revolution in the system, subject to his censorship;
but so obstinate are evils, fostered by local interest and lengthened
indulgence, that years elapsed before the effects of his influence were
powerfully realised. He, however, secured for the exclusionists the
recognition of their favorite principle, and not only were emancipists
pronounced ineligible for the future, but those already in the
commission found it expedient to resign. Mr. Redfern was dismissed.

This determination of the imperial authorities, by whatever reasons
supported, was a deviation from a practice which covered the entire
period of Macquarie's government; therefore sanctioned, expressly, or by
the silence of th