“ Resolved, that the establishment of a penal settlement in this colony would seem to present some advantages to the Home Government to counterbalance the expense of the measure, inasmuch as the convicts would be employed in developing profitable resources which at present are totally useless, either to the mother country or to the colony, from the want of adequate means in the settlers to render them available. ”

“ Labour without the mens of employing it being a burthen rather than a benefit, while the introduction of persons of this class without any precaution being taken or fund created for the establishment of an adequate guard, either of police or military, to protect the colonists, would of itself be an evil of very great magnitude, the colonial revenue being totally insufficient to meet any part of this necessary expense. ”

“ Resolved, that the whole capital of the settlers being already invested, and that too in pursuits which yield no profitable return, the means of the colony are inadequate to the promotion and completion of the various schemes of improvement which the still undeveloped resources of the country suggest, and which would be highly impracticable under more favourable circumstances, while the difficulty is still further increased by the steady and constant emigration of labour from the colony. ”