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9th July 1802
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N.S. Wales Conduct
VII Escapes

August 1790- p.130- On the 19th [of August 1790] the Neptune....
preparatory to her sailing to China ... quitted the cove on
the 22nd; soon after which, information being received that
several convicts purposed to attempt making their escape
in her from the Colony, a small armed party of soldiers
was sent on board her, .... to search the ship, when
one man and one woman were found on board. The
man was one who had just arrived in the Colony; &
being soon mind of his situation, had prevailed
on some of the people to him among the fire
wood which they had taken on board. In the night another
person swam off to the ship, & was received by the guard.
He pleaded being a free man, but as he had taken a
very improper mode of quitting the Colony, he was, by
order of the governor, punished the day following, together
with the convict who had been found concealed among
the fire wood—

From the correspondence
it would be seen whether
in it encouraged in which if
in any degree they were
included. The great school of
disposition and perfidy
founded by Mr Pitt.
To this at , the
master keeper has faith
as often as he is afraid
of breaking it: and
as those whom he
has and with whom he
has been want to act
were now to whose prejudice
there was nothing to
be gained by breaking it,
it is natural that to
such eyes he should be
an honourable man.+
When he, out with a man
circumstanced like me, the action he would have made himself
amends. The Master would keep trade
in public to most pupils.
Thus the pupils,
is it appears with
every body.

Here ends the list of incidents, shewing the regard paid
of the acknowledged rights of return to the liberty acknowledged
to be due by law to convicts whose terms of transportation
had expired. They are not articles picked
out from a greater number to answer a particular purpose.
These, to added to the others in which, on a former
occasion,IIII See N.S. Wales
Pamphlet an account is given of the several companies, who
with or without permission were fortunate
enough to get away, are all that have any bearing on this point.

Before any instructions 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 every body[1][1] These, together
with a view account
the statement already
given of the several
companies who, with or
without permission
were fortunate enough
to get away -
all that have any
bearing upon those
points. then those who had a
promise to stop nobody, I mean of those who had any right to go accompanied
right to depart in any number were mostly stopped
after an assurance that none should be
with a secret determination to stop all but a few favourites.
The difference was,
that now after receipt of the authority for stopping them
though most who to get a either acted leave or without acting
attempted to get away, were stopped, yet it does not appear that any no more were flogged
for it. But if even were the numbers of those whose liberty right
of departure had returned accrued had accumulated to its greatest multitude
there was no need of flogging to prevent the exercise of it
and thus it was it shews how little far any such illegal punishment
were from being necessary in which even to the illegal purpose
when there were so few of them, that it when it was inflicted.

None necessity of
the floggings
administered
at first for expiring
attempt to get
away.

c thus clear the
general promise to
those who had a right to depart
to suffer the
all to depart if the
giving the liberty of
general preventing giving the liberty of their
departure to all, accompanied
with a secret intention
of returning it to all but a few.

Identifier: | JB/116/132/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-07-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	130
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	132	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a88
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	[[notes_public::"not to be inserted, but yet copied" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	37665
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