Two voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land : with a description of the present condition of that interesting colony: including facts and observations relative to the state and management of convicts of both sexes. Also reflections on seduction and its general consequences / By Thomas Reid.

  • Reid, Thomas, 1791-1825.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Two voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land : with a description of the present condition of that interesting colony: including facts and observations relative to the state and management of convicts of both sexes. Also reflections on seduction and its general consequences / By Thomas Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    occurred, without decoration or disguise; and in no instance has truth been sacrificed to courtesy or pri- vate feeling. To promote the happiness both temporal and eter- nal of an unfortunate portion of the community,—a class too long neglected,—-is my only aim. In the management of convicts I am not wedded to any par^ ticular system ; I have described that which at pre- sent appears to me preferable, and I believe I may fairly consider it my own, no other, so far as I know, having been proposed or acted on before: but if any one will bring forward a better, so far from regarding him with an eye of jealousy as a rival, I shall hail him as a fellow-labourer, a benefactor, and a friend. Without further trespassing on the reader's patience, the following sheets are now submitted, with all due deference, to public revision. My object is to excite inquiry, and draw to the subject the attention of those who can command the means of redressing the evils pointed out, a task which every good man, surely, will consider of vital importance to the morals and happi- ness of the community. Animated with a wish only to be useful in the humble station in which it has pleased Providence to place me, I shall thankfully ac- knowledge such improvements as the more extended experience of the benevolent, intelligent, and liberal may henceforth enable them to communicate. Vigo Lane, Dec. 1821.