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The Oatmeal is certainly creditable to the convicts whit
arrived in three Iwo ships, but, for reasons hereafter give.,
It cannot be taken as • specimen of the condom of converts
g ily. The writer says, lie should be sorry to mislead
any part of the public is sitting too favourably the chance
of eonnirt reformation, which, in general, is bet a hopeless
ease, mid therefore much must depend upon the previous
bedsits of the prisooer. The settler* take little, or indeed no
trouble, to bring about a reformation among those placed
under them. Many of them set a bad (maniple to ;heir see.
vants, and from stone that ever be (the writer) heard of
does the convict receive any religion. instruction.
It mar appear singular, land perhaps incredible to llia
;mobile, that .an few offences hate been cummitied by the cos.
Melo landed from the ships Minerva sod Melville since their
arrival, a period of near four years; bat, in the ern place,
there were very few either Loadoo or Dublin regular bred
thieves among them ; they were generally men from the
country, and amity fur first offences; and it will be recol-
lected, that the statement only accounts for • proportion of
the convicts of each of these ships. Of those sent to Port
Dalrymple (the north part of the island of Tau Dielnew),
no particulars ten be procured by the writer of the state-
ment ; but although the statement may be relied spoil as cur.
reel, or very nearly so, yet I be public most receive it as the
most favourable instance to be given from this settlement,
aeirded out of slattern ships, that have arrived at Hobart
Town with prisoners since June, ISM
• It is understood, that at the olßee of the present inspector
of medic works at Hobart Town, a separate hat of each
ship is kept, stating the Prisoner's name, how and where em.
played, with a mammal for remarks os his conduct; at the
end of each year it could with a little trouble be ascertained,
how many roneici• of earh ship during each twelve months
had been punished for misconduct, and fur what crimem, and
bow many renessued in *melees' or Government employ,
without any complaint against them. By having these lists
divided into climes, it could sled be ascertained what pro.
portion of regular-bred London thieves behaved well ; what
di ffereace (if ally) in regard to conduct exists between them
and regular thieves from the other great cities of the empire;
what again between these and men bred spit, country lobos..
It is said the chance is almost ten to one, in moat people's
ophono, in (sewer of the lemit.inentioned mass reforming;
and it is slated as a reaaon, that country labourers are
sought @Per by the settlers, and taken out of the way of
temptation saloon as they land.
It might also be ascertained, whether more of the Irish
prisoners reform mid tom out w•I1, in proportion to the
number sent, than those from Great Britain ; fur it is
usually said that from Ireland many are scut out for slight
offence,.
These biota are throws out, anti the statement marle
public, more al • matter of eurimity ; for, althowth no (re-
tina emiclusion eau be drawee from the statements of those
two ship', yet it may be a matter worth further observation,
as the means of tracing more fully what proportion of con.
rims, nut bred up regularly to thieving, but induced at
some moment of reelde resistance to commit a petty theft,
for which they suffer transportatioes to this new world, tura
out decent sad quiet norinbers of society.
The writer teems to shall( that it may be inferred, that
the coovict• of the ships Minerva and Lend Melville, who
who were assigned to 'toilets its V•n Diemen'a Land upon
their arrival, and who still mambo in their 'aviation* a pe-
riod of upwards of three years, have at hoist conducted
themselves to the satisfaction of their employers' and in
sew measure retrieved their former character, std ante-
grenlly dimming of a colonial initigmtiens of their sen.
truces (via. to be allowed tickets of leave, or made free in
the colony), fur if the settlers' masters had had occasion to
complaiu of them, the neatest district magistrate would have

MARCH 25.
A letter from Burgos, dated 21st, invalidate the fuliouiag
istelliceitee:—
. Os the Igth, the annieenstry of the publication of the
Costlitusoe, some inconv. totem had nearly arises here.
The Commander of the cvw.un, Don Filibert illshy, in
his order of the day, enjui..ed the hoofs to give
fur lino, a cry which, however dear to the teal friends of
liberty, has hero fur some tone a signal for disturbance and
animosity. So it happened lime, that prisons iweidloasly
look occasion from lbw seder of the day to shout Long live
the Emperor Riego!' eve,, io the viemity of the house of the
Political Chief. 11.10 Chief, whose teal for the Constitution
has &sera nailer any cireussat , milted out of his
house without hat or stick, suited with the crowd, imposed
silence, and commanded the Colonel to arrest use ur two
aileants of the Bayles regiment, who had taken part is
these 'cureless exclematious. This occurrence, stilted with
others of the acme clam, sod with the events at eaMP.IIIOI4
which we have descriiw.l, shows to deftionstrstion that these
acts bare a cesactioa with each other, arid proceed from the
same caose."—(/isperiql. )