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Points of mala fides
1. Original design repugnant
to all the transportation
Acts.
2. Maintenance for
the sake of Lord
Belgrave.
Illegal conduct from mere misconception of the law involves moral
turpitude. The moral turpitude betray'd by Mr Pitt and his associates in this has in these principally
business, centres principally
in two points. One is The founding the Colony with a clandestine secret design
of carrying on in it by arbitrary power a perpetual
of employing it for the purpose of one continued violation of
almost every one in the long list of of the numerous from the Restoration to the present time Acts of Parliament by which
transportation for a limited time has been appointed: ordered: this I look
upon as a most audacious contempt put upon the authority of Parliament,
as well as upon of the first principles of humanity and justice:
despotism encreasing barbarity by a cluster of virtual ex post facto legal laws, upon
the largest scale.
The other is—the keeping on foot this scene of misery and wickedness
not to speak of bottomless expence—or at it has been maintained kept on foot
of late years viz: by the Duke of Portland, full of
the enormity of it—under favour of under spreading false reports spread abound of "improvement"+ maintaining keeping it
on foot for no other purpose than that of a make weight to make in the bundle of pretences for the
setting aside a system of real reformation and economy to for no
better no nobler end purpose than the recent and corrupt one of humouring
the interested imaginations of Lord Belgrave.
7.2
J.B. What indulgence
he can oblige in response
for kindness—
offer to take upon him
relinquishment.
After the view I have thus taken had occasion to take of the "improved" of this scene of abominations
Colony/establishment, let happen what will be Panopticon I must have better reasons given me than I expect
to have, before I can give up or relax my efforts to rid
mankind of the service of this nuisance/abate this this scene of abominations. To with
less severity than otherwise on the incapacity and negligence
and hard heartedness and anticonstitutional despotism
under which it has grown up, is the all the return I have
to give offer make for any justice kindness which the hand of power may man in power may be
be despair drawn by their fears to render me. If in the view
of making the best least bad provision that can be made for the
present inhabitants of N.S. Wales under a system of relinquishment
they were to think fit to make use of my services they were
you might venture to promise them an investigation of the business
more minute close and sollicitous than can reasonably be expected
on the part of my Lord. If they will suffer me to use
my endeavours towards for the alleviation of the measures created by their negligence of these measures which their negligence has
created caused or suffered, I will give them such payment as may be not
repugnant to the laws of convenience.
+(for besides the lately disclosed
correspondence, 12 June 1801 you
were treated with of
these rumours at the time as appears by
a note of writing you had
the kindness to send me)
+ To give up to them
the lead instead of
taking it from them &
forcing them to follow.
To speak of the future
without too close an investigation
of the point, to
speak of effects without
bearing too heard upon
causes.
to whose scornful disdainful negligence
the of these
has hitherto been in view
might otherwise
be omitted.
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