TO

NEW SOUTH WALES

AND

VAN DIEMEN’S LAND,

WITH

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THAT

INTERESTING COLONY :

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 appreh nsion of in-
curring the imputation of officiousness."-WilBER FORCE.

London:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

PRINTED S R. AND A. TAYLOR,

SHOE-LANE, LONDON.

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 indul• gence. In soliciting your protection to the follow

ing 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.