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m used — Before any instructitions were received for stopping
any body those who had no right to depart or those who
had a right — those who had a right were as well as those
who had none, flogged, on their attempting to go, as well
as stopped. But when the authority came for stopping
eve every body then came the general promise to those
who had a right to depart giving the liberty of
departure to all accompanied with a secret intention of
refusing it to all but a few, then came the general
promise to stop nobody I mean of those who had any
right to go accompanied with a determination to
stop all but a few favorites. The difference was that
now after receipt of the authority for stopping them
though most who either asked leave or without asking
attempted to get away were stopped yet it does not
appear that any more were flogged for it. But if
even the number of them whose right of departure had
revived had accumulated to its greatest multitude
there was no end of flogging to prevent the exercise
of it it shews how far any such illegal punishment
was from being necessary even to this illegal purpose
when there were so few of these that is when it
was inflicted —
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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john herbert koe |
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