If his sheep and hogs are English also, it will be better.
For wines, spirits, tobacco, sugar, coffee, tea, rice, poultry, and many
other articles, he may venture to rely on at Teneriffe or Madeira, the
Brazils and Cape of Good Hope. It will not be his interest to draw bills
on his voyage out, as the exchange of money will be found invariably
against him, and a large discount also deducted. Drafts on the place he
is to touch at, or cash (dollars if possible) will best answer his end.
To men of desperate fortune and the lowest classes of the people, unless
they can procure a passage as indented servants, similar to the custom
practised of emigrating to America, this part of the world offers no
temptation: for it can hardly be supposed, that Government will be fond
of maintaining them here until they can be settled, and without such
support they must starve.
Of the Governor's instructions and intentions relative to the disposal
of the convicts, when the term of their transportation shall be expired,
I am ignorant. They will then be free men, and at liberty, I apprehend,
either to settle in the country, or to return to Europe.
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