Several Men Whose Terms Of Transportation Had Expired,
And Against Whom No Legal Impediment Existed To Prevent Their Departure,
Have Been Permitted To Enter In Merchant Ships Wanting Hands:
And
as my Rose Hill journals testify, many others have had grants of land
assigned to them, and are become settlers in the country.
In so numerous a community many persons of perverted genius and of
mechanical ingenuity could not but be assembled. Let me produce the
following example. Frazer was an iron manufacturer, bred at Sheffield,
of whose abilities as a workman we had witnessed many proofs. The
governor had written to England for a set of locks to be sent out for the
security of the public stores, which were to be so constructed as to be
incapable of being picked. On their arrival his excellency sent for
Frazer and bade him examine them telling him at the same time that they
could not be picked. Frazer laughed and asked for a crooked nail only,
to open them all. A nail was brought, and in an instant he verified his
assertion. Astonished at his dexterity, a gentleman present determined
to put it to farther proof. He was sent for in a hurry, some days after,
to the hospital, where a lock of still superior intricacy and expense to
the others had been provided. He was told that the key was lost and that
the lock must be immediately picked. He examined it attentively, remarked
that it was the production of a workman, and demanded ten minutes to make
an instrument 'to speak with it.' Without carrying the lock with him,
he went directly to his shop, and at the expiration of his term returned,
applied his instrument, and open flew the lock.
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