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28 March 1802
N.S. Wales
Note
(a) It would be injustice not to on this occasion not
to indicate point out a seeming exception objection to their the
alledged actually exemplified in the Colony of New
South Wales: an exception which though but a
seeming one, or in with reference to the proposition
in the text, ought not to pass either unnoticed or unhonoured. does the reflects indisputable honour
on the intelligence and zeal of those to whom
who ever they may be the Magistrate to whom this part of his Majestys
the service is indebted for it.
[+]On my part — on the part one who has so industriously been precluded from the possibility of trying it, it was of course theoretical and visionary: having practiced put in practice — practiced by men in office, it may in so few perhaps be admitted to be practice,
The case in question is taken from the Account
so often referred to of T the Colony by Captain Collins so op who officiated
there for so many years in the important status of M Judge Advocate. In certain instances which more he mentioned,
the case of an offence of the predaetory
or deleterious class committed there in the Colony,
by convicts during their continuance under the general
Colonial punishment for an offence committed there and under
those circumstances a few instances are mentioned, in which
the offender was made to labour in a condition of stricter
confinement, and the produce of his labours, or a part
applied of it thus disposed of. To whom in particular the
service is indebted for this improvement, is a circumstance
I have not met with in these looked for without success: I should
The natural supposition is to the worthy Magistrate,
himself in whose history it is related. I should
be glad to find any reason for supposing the improvement
to have originated in any instruction or
suggestion originating here at home from the office
by which the government of that Colony is superintended.
Be this as it may, it is impossible with any consistency
to commend the speak in terms of commendation of the
instances in which it this object is pursued 1, by the local intelligence of the Magistracy of that district spot without
speaking
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