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|+Character and origin of the population of New South Wales in 1820. |- |Free emigrants||1,307 |- |style="padding-right:8em;"|Adults born in the colony||1,495 |- |Children||5,668 |- |Convicts in actual bondage||9,451 |- | Do.  holding tickets of leave||1,422 |- | Do.  free by servitude||3,255 |- | Do.  pardoned||1,121 |- |Persons employed in colonial vessels||220 |}

Such, therefore, was the character and origin of the actual population of New South Wales at the close of the thirty-third year of the existence of that colony, as the principal penal settlement of the British empire. Of a population of 23,939 persons at that period, there were only 1307 of the class of free emigrants, while not fewer than