**the matter f(3r approval iimiietliately/' Emancipated

convicts desiring to become farmers were to be similarly encouraged. Tbe horrors of tlie imssage for convicts continued during Himter*s reign, and lie remonstrated against tbtan, as Phillip had remonstrated before. Close confinement, poverty of food, and consequent disease swept away large n Embers. An agent for transports accompanied the ships sometimes, bat even in such a case (as that of Lieut. IBowen, E.N., in 1791, in the Alhcmftrh) his functions were resolved into additional sternness when mutiny occurred. Hunter requested that a naval othcer should accompany each ship, and hear appeals from the convicts as to their treatment. In 1796 information of intended mutiny was given to Hogan, the captain of the Mar<ptis of CornwaUis, He I acquainted the soldiers and the crew, who desired to execute the ringleaders, '^It was ijot without much difHciUty I was able to get their liv*es apared, by promising the seamen and the honest part of the soldiers that each man siiould take his part in Hogging them at the gangway. , . . At 11 a.m. we cnrtiinenced Hogging the villains^ and continued engaged on that dissagreeable Btrvioe till forty-t«u men and eight women reeeive<l their ptinishment/' ((Jn a siibaequent day) '*I heard dreadful eries in the prison, and found tbo&e who had not been pnnished were murdering those that g&ye any information, which were now about twenty, too many t^ keep on deck. To rescue tiiese from the vengeance of the others, I was obliged lo fire amongst them with blmuderlntsses anil pistols; and on appeasing their rage, I hauled out Sfune of the fellows they were destroy- ^^^ iiig, almoi»t speeehleas. Some of the conviets were killefl on thii^ occasion, ^B but many of them d anger om^ly woimrletl. On this day, punishments I^V being over» and sufficient proof being esrablisheil againsit the sergeant, etirporal, and James Bullock, as w41l appear by the following informations, 1 ordered them to be chained together and put in the cooviota* prison cm convicts' allowaucet with an intent to prosecute them before the Civil and iMilitary Court at New^ South Wales.-' The critical position of a ship m which a sergeant was in leagne with inutineers without donbt conduced to the approval accorded to the captain after inquiry in Sydney. Hnnter found the government of female convicts more disheartening than that of the men. He wrote in 1796 — I **1 must expresfl my hope that the three hundred (expected) «re all menj and not part men and part women, for of the latter wo have already enough. We have scarLel^ any way of employing them, and they are generally found worse characters than the men;" — {ixx Wf^) "iVerj ft.xtax