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TRANSPORTATION
during the eight years and a half previous to the 30th of June, 1836:—
| Year. | Convicts. | Free Emigrants. |
Total. |
| 1828 | 2,712 | 596 | 3,308 |
| 1829 | 3,664 | 564 | 4,228 |
| 1830 | 3,226 | 309 | 3,535 |
| 1831 | 2,837 | 457 | 3,294 |
| 1832 | 3,268 | 2,006 | 5,274 |
| 1833 | 4,136 | 2,685 | 6,821 |
| 1834 | 3,161 | 1,664 | 4,725 |
| 1835 | 3,602 | 1,428 | 5,030 |
| 1836 | 1,796 | 675 | 2,471 |
| till June 30, | |||
| 28,402[1] | 10,284 | 38,686 |
Into a community, therefore, so unhappily constituted, both in a moral and political light, as I have shown that of New South Wales to have been from the first, there have been imported during the last eight years and a half, to counteract the naturally evil influence and to promote the
- ↑ The proportion of Roman Catholic convicts in ships from England is 10 per cent., that of Protestant convicts in ships from Ireland being 5 per cent: it is therefore evident and unquestionable, that the Roman Catholic religion has exceedingly the advantage of Protestantism in contributing to the prison population of convict colonies.
