convict-audience

Updated: August 25, 2026

The few farms in that neighbourhood were then chiefly occupied by Americans, some of whom had found it highly desirable to expatriate themselves; and might have exclaimed with the celebrated pick-pocket, Barrington, in a prologue spoken to a convict-audience in New South Wales, "Friends, be it understood, We left our country for our country's good."

Samuel Strickland - Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West: The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)