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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...things: but gold may be bought too dear. Let any one but take the pains to calculate the total net profits of the "increased exports and "imports of England," and compare this sum with the mere cost to the nation (waiving all other evils) of keeping up the whole establishment for the supply of this slave-labour; and then let him compute how far the one overbalances the other. In this, and in numberless other cases, the paradoxical appearance which such computations will often present, is explained by the consideration, that the loss goes to one party, and the gain to another. It is Government that bears the expenses; they fall on the community: the profits go to the individual settlers, traders, &c. and the total gain thus occurring to the nation, may be utterly inadequate to the outlay, and yet may be a very important and desirable object to individuals on whom this outlay does not fall. And yet it seems the expenditure is not sufficient, even in Col. Arthur's own judgment, to render Transportation efficacious, for its professed primary object as a penalty. "I "admit that the condition of these men, (the educated But surely those who are deliberating with a view to the public good, ought in all cases to be very cautious in admitting the evidence of interested individuals, whose private advantage is not (though they wish to persuade both others and themselves that it is) necessarily coincident with advantage to the public. Much greater however should be our caution in respect of individuals whose interest (as in the present "convicts and specials) though by no means so desirable as "it has been represented in England, has not heretofore cor"responded with that of other convicts. In fact the only "hindrance in...
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