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15 Oct. 1802 Panopt. v. N. S. Wales Supplement 2

Economy
Settlers hopeless
partly to the faculty of exchange. To exercise this faculty
with any tolerable convenience and advantage .. The exercise
of this faculty requires a double market is indisputable
a market where he can sell what he has to spare: a
market where he can purchase what he stands in need
of.

In all these particulars we shall find some remarkable
inconvenience, deficiency difficulty, or even total impossibility
pressing bearing upon the condition of the unhappy inhabitant
of New South Wales.

The property whatever he has at any given moment, or
may be others be already in possession of, or thinking and
endeavouring to acquire, he will find continually encompassed and threatened beret by no fewer than
nine perfectly distinguishable causes of destruction each of
them singly existing in a magnitude sufficient to repel
a prudent man from a spot that has so little of so compleatly destitute of every positive
profit advantage or pleasure to recommend it. 1 draught — 2 Fire by
hostility of native savages. 3 Force by hostility of
malefactors. Fire, even by the inclemency spontaneouslty of unassisted
Drought parching up the fruit vegetation of the earth, spontaneous
as well as cultivated and cutting off for a whole
season together all hopes of increase supply. Caterpillars and a variety
of other vermin producing by their ravages the appearance
and the effects of draught. Tempests up,
inundations sweeping away into the Sea, the entire hoarded produce
of a four month season — whatever has been spared by
and therefore less cruel causes of desolation: Rapacity
continually letting loose upon arming against the industrious and peaceable subject the
hostility of the those implacable enemies —
internal convict depredations — base native savages — and fugitive convict
depredation [+] [+] deserters from
"cultivated to savage
society. self convicted into a species of Moroons, and influencing
and at the same goading directing <add> deserters as well as influencing commitment to</add> the violence of their barbarous
allies.

Identifier: | JB/116/086/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-10-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	086	Info in main headings field	panopt. v. n. s. wales supplement
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37619
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