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four thousand miles round, and I think he has got hold of the notion which many persons have, that Government is glad to get anyone willing to go—as if they only sought the pleasure of paying £40 or £50 to enable one and another family, whom they know nothing of, to remove from this country to New South Wales! The funds for the purpose of free emigration are raised only from the sale of land in the colony, and, therefore, anyone may know it must he hut limited. There are only six or seven ships going in the course of the present year from London which take out emigrants free of expense, These ships are far superior to any other that go to Sydney, and always sail on the appointed days, consequently more persons who pay their own passage will go out in these ships than in any other; so that only a few, to make up the ship's number, go out free, perhaps not more than four or five families in a ship on an average, for it is not likely that they will take persons at the expense of Government if others will go at their own expense. Mr. Marshall offered to take James at the payment of £9 for William. He and his wife and child would have been taken sixteen thousand miles, and wholly provided for during the voyage for less than eleven shillings