Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land

Name: Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land
Author: Reid, Thomas

Reid, Thomas

Exiles -- Australia -- New South Wales; Exiles -- Australia -- Tasmania

TWO VOYAGES

                                   TO

                            NEW SOUTH WALES

                                  AND

                           VAN DIEMEN’S LAND,

                                  WITH

   A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THAT INTERESTING COLONY:

                               INCLUDING

      FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO THE STATE AND MANAGEMENT

                                   OF

                        CONVICTS OF BOTH SEXES.

                                  ALSO

                        REFLECTIONS ON SEDUCTION

                                  AND

                       ITS GENERAL CONSEQUENCES.

                            BY THOMAS REID,

 MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN LONDON, AND SURGEON IN THE
                              ROYAL NAVY.

“He who thinks he sees many around him, whom he esteems and loves,
labouring under a fatal error, must have a cold heart, or a most
confined notion of benevolence, if he could withhold his endeavours to
set them right, from an apprehension of incurring the imputation of
officiousness.”-—WILBERFORCE.

                                London:

           PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,
                            PATERNOSTER-ROW.

                                 1822.

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                                   TO
                          MRS. ELIZABETH FRY.


 _MADAM_,

_My late voyage in the Morley, female convict ship, having been
undertaken chiefly at your instance; an account of it could not with
propriety, in my opinion, be addressed to any person but yourself. A
faithful relation of every circumstance connected with the voyage has
rendered occasional mention of your name unavoidable, for which I have
to entreat your indulgence. In soliciting your protection to the
following pages, I am anxious to secure for them an attention and
respect which, perhaps, their own intrinsic merit could not justly
claim: of their object few are better qualified to judge than you are,
and certainly none will feel a livelier interest in promoting it._

_Much of your valuable time has been devoted to the cause of humanity;
and the results of your efforts, with those of your amiable coadjutors,
need no assistance from the journalist or historian to give them
durability; they live in the grateful hearts of those who were blest
with your salutary instructions: and from the solicitude evinced by many
of those unfortunate persons, as I have often seen, to impress this
feeling on the pliant minds of their children, it is not, I think,
presuming too much to say that it will be cultivated and cherished, in
distant parts of the world, by generations yet unborn._

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Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land

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