ABSTRACT
What was to be done, however, with the convicts who would in the ordinary course have gone to Van Diemen's Land? Public works already proceeding at Gibraltar and Bermuda could account for some; and some might perhaps be taken for similar purposes by the Cape, or employed in preparing lands for settlement in Natal, or in building a railway from Halifax to Quebec. I Above all, men might perhaps again be sent, not only for labour on public works, but also for private service, to New South Wales.
