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24 July 1802
N. S. Wales
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what mode of a which of the two modes of acquisition
did the King come by his right? Not in this case
surely by purchase, by descent, and not by purchase but by descent, occupancy or
any other mode of purchase: unless in this view it be contended,
that possessing them by descent he sent them out
to New South Wales that when there stationed chained down
upon the ground which he had obtained by occupancy,
they might be ready in readiness to be seized, and being there
possessed by the better title occupancy, they might be
ready in readiness to be converted by him to his own use by
being flayed, and imprisoned and kept to hard
labour without redress from those that law laws of that country
[the protection of which he had contrived of the protection of which he had rushd them then to make them
forfeit] by sending them out of the country governed by it.
that law. This Such is most unquestionably the fact: the plain matter
of fact: it would be impossible to deny it, but in
what respect it will serve Mr Pitt no point of law
is a question that remains to be determined by the proper judges.
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