AND COLONIZATION.
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| Free emigrants | 1,307 |
| Adults born in the colony | 1,495 |
| Children | 5,668 |
| Convicts in actual bondage | 9,451 |
| Do. holding tickets of leave | 1,422 |
| Do. free by servitude | 3,255 |
| Do. pardoned | 1,121 |
| Persons employed in colonial vessels | 220 |
| Free emigrants | 714 |
| Adults born in the colony | 185 |
| Children | 1,020 |
| Convicts | 2,588 |
| Do. holding tickets of leave | 68 |
| Do. free by servitude | 62 |
| Do. pardoned | 231 |
Such, therefore, was the character and origin of the actual population of New South Wales at the close of the thirty-third year of the existence of that colony, as the principal penal settlement of the British empire. Of a population of 23,939 persons at that period, there were only 1307 of the class of free emigrants, while not fewer than
