The territorial seal provided by the crown, stamped on the instruments of government the primary design: on the obverse, the royal arms and title; but on the reverse, convicts were represented landing, received by Industry, who, surrounded by her attributes--a bale of merchandise, a pick-axe and shovel--released them from their fetters, and pointed them to oxen ploughing. The legend was appropriate: "_Sic fortis Etruria crevit_."[62] "He who lives among a civilised people, may estimate the labor by which society has been brought into such a state, by reading in the annals of Botany Bay, the account of a whole nation exerting itself to floor the government-house. Yet time shall come, when some Botany Bay Tacitus shall record the crimes of an emperor lineally descended from a London pickpocket."[63] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 56: Introduction to _Phillip's Voyages_.] [Footnote 57: _Bentham's Works_, part iii. p. 122.] [Footnote 58: _Bentham's Works_, part iii. p. 7.] [Footnote 59: _London, in the Eighteenth Century, by Charles Knight._] [Footnote 60: A bill was brought into parliament by Mr. Bennet: it was, however, maintained that the total abolition of such rewards would be pernicious. The heir at law of a person killed in pursuit of a highwayman, was still entitled to L40 and a Tyburn ticket, which exempted the holder from serving on a jury, and other civil liabilities.] [Footnote 61: _Par. Papers_: quoted by Bentham, p. 174.] [Footnote 62: _Collins_, vol. i. p. 179.] SECTION IV. The convicts first sent to New Holland, entered on the voyage with dread. The letters they addressed to their friends, while the fleet lay at anchor, were examined by the officers: they were filled with lamentations. They deeply deplored, that the distance of their exile cut off the hope of return; the perils of so long a voyage alone seemed frightful: should they reach the shores of New Holland, they expected to be destroyed by savages, or to pine away in want. The females seemed least to fear their banishment; and while several of the men were deeply moved, a spectator, who curiously remarked the mental influence of their prospects, saw only one woman weep.[64]