JB/116/218/001

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28 June 1802 N. S. Wales 4

6. Conduct 3. Convict Lot

In taking up the old imperfect systems to amend and
work upon, here would have been an occasion for a
man, with any thing of the mind and spirit of a legislator,
to cure the imperfection which haste and neglect original neglect
had left it in it, and to rouse render its dispensations
more strictly conformable to the line of consistency and justice. Care would have been taken to mark out
the distinction between the two in themselves perfectly
distinct the branches of the transportation punishment — the banishment
and the bondage: and to give in to the Crime express terms, and
with such have taken, if any as should appear for
fitting and convenient such powers as should be thought
fit to be given in regard to each: so that in all cases
the case of the lowest offences as well as that of the highest
the banishment bondage being as if remitted in cases that called
for the remission of it, the banishment might continue.
Work this for a legislator: but where during the whole long
reign pompous of the man of wanting eloquence — where look
for any thing were of legislation beyond the time and
attitude of it. for any thing beyond the mask of a legislator?

With what consistency, or hope of satisfaction ground of expectation, look for improvements
in the law, when whatever there was of mind and formed
thought itself was was at the height extent of its wishes and its
views, when for the moment under the existing circumstances it had found means
without being detected, immediately of putting some trick upon the
law — of giving a con twist to the law, and by putting
a fraud upon the legislation?

Identifier: | JB/116/218/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-06-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	218	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4 / f47
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37751
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