A

STATISTICAL, HISTORICAL, AND POLITICAL

DESCRIPTION

OF

The Colony

OF

NEW SOUTH WALES,

AND

Ets dependent Settlements

IN

VAN DIEMEN'S LAND:

WITH

A PARTICULAR ENUMERATION OF THE ADVANTAGES WHICH THESE
COLONIES OFFER FOR EMIGRATION, A DEMONSTRATION OF THEIR

SUPERIORITY IN MANY RESPECTS OVER THOSE POSSESSED BY
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; AND A WORD OF
ADVICE TO EMIGRANTS.

The Second Edition,

CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED, AND EMBELLISHED WITH A VIEW OF
THE TOWN OF SYDNEY, AND A MAP.

BY W. C. WENTWORTH, Esq.

A NATIVE OF THE COLONY.

PREFACE

TO THE

FIRST EDITION.

It may prevent those inquiries that would be naturally made by the public, respecting the manner in which the author acquired the information contained in this work, when he states that he was born in the colony of New South Wales, and that he resided there for about five years since his arrival at the age of maturity. This is a period which will, at least, be allowed to have been sufficient for acquiring a correct knowledge of its state and government, and for enabling him to observe the destructive tendency of those measures, of which it has been his endeavour to demonstrate the injustice and impolicy, and to procure the b

speady repeal. He would not, however, have it concluded that the present work has been the result of mature and systematic reflection. It is, on the contrary, a hasty production, which originated in the casual suggestions of an acquaintance, and which was never contemplated by him, during his long residence in the colony. He has consequently been obliged not only to omit giving a detail of many interesting facts, with which he might have become acquainted previously to his departure; but has also been under the necessity of relying in a great measure on the fidelity of his memory for the accuracy of of those circumstances which he many has stated:-still he is not without hope, that five years' attentive observation will have enabled him to communicate many particulars, of which, in the absence of abler works on the same subject, most of the inhabitants of this country cannot but be ignorant, and many must wish to be apprized.

His only aim, in obtruding this hasty production on the public, is to promote the welfare and prosperity of the country which gave him