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13 June 1802 25
N. S. Wales 7

By what tricks and expedients is the business government
carried on in the way in which it is carried on —
under in the desolate and abandoned state in which the
law of the Colony has all along been left by Mr Pitt
and the other founders of it? I know not: I care
not. I know not that it would be in my power
to learn by any inquiries I could make. But I
shall make none. The present question I have taken
in hand is whether or no in the whole conduct of the
business there has or has not been blame — gross blame.
For pron an answer to that question or rath there is happily no need
of any such recondite and precariously necessary information.
The state and condition of mea the inhabitants of a
whole Colony not to be learned by the letters of any
public law! — not to be learnt if at all, but by going The measure standard of obedience, out of the reach of every body!
cap in hand, and without fin (so much as a) portion
of right, to this and that and t'other office, begging
for information, which after all may not be granted!
No my Lord — for the purpose I have in hand, I
have no need to go about purchasing information at
any such price. That, if at all, it the information is not pardonable
but at that price is enough for me. That it is not
obtainable but at that price is sufficient to proof to prove that
those by whose management mismanagement it has happened — that
the means of distinguishing what is lawful from what is
unlawful are not within the reach of the multitude whose
fate is dependent upon that knowledge, are culpable:
culpable: and if it be in the power of and as far as gross neglect and that incapacity which
in a public man is the sum and substance of all crimes
amounts to to constitute invariably, criminal.
12 This is an otherwise to Pitt &c than in respect of their not having corrected it. which they should have done having undertaken the establishment of a new system.

Identifier: | JB/116/161/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-06-13	Marginal Summary Numbering	11
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	161	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e7 / f25
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37694
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