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12 June 1802 N.S. Wales

Convict

An event — such as may be happens at any time —
would however upon be sufficient at any time to lay open the
Regulation af upon regulation have been issued by Governor</del>
upon Governor - by for the greater part good I suppose has
those are perhaps not altogether good as in other places: but
be they good or bad makes as to this point but little difference.
By what authority are they made? Good or bad By which ground
of these can the very best of them be said to be legal? Cases Cases
more place. Cases may be put without number. An A convict whose
term is expired, attempts and to get on board a ship he has
agreed with for his passage: the Governor attem intervenes
to prevent him: a struggle insues: the Governor
is killed: would Is is not this this be murder, or manslaughter in the Convict? The
Convict is killed: would is is not this not this be murder or manslaughter in the Governor?
In the first ca the event the The self-defending Convict, though legally innocent
would be disposed of then without much difficulty ; but in the other
where would be the defense of the Governor against in England appeal in England?
</del> This thing not murder, if on the part of the quondam Convict; - this thing murder if on the part of the Governor.

The Governor, with or without what would in England be thought
sufficient ground - makes a regulation, ordering all persons
in the Colony, having fire arms to give them up, to in
places and to person named therein named. Some having fire-arms
issued to them before that had been of the King give them up accordingly, as they
ought to do, or (as happe in a case that happened in
to 200 out of 250+ + Collins p. 131. ) omitt to give them up; others
having fire-arms of their own bought (lawfully purchased with their own
money - such money - suppose of one of the many foreign ships that have touched there) not only omitt to give them up but
refuse it. The Governor attempts to seize them. - what Where
is his right of doing so? - where. At the same time, Yet, in
in respect of security - point of security, be an object in a settlement so circumstanced
does it not what difference does it make matters it whether they arms
thus demanded belonged to are the King's property of the Crown, or a
man's own? Will a musquet, in the hand of an United
Irishman, do any the less mischief, for having been lawfully bought, with his
than if it had been stolen or embezzled? Has all the same:[+] [+]If the deficiency of power is not yet enough support the occasion of the struggle to have been the enforcements of the Ordinance No 3 or 5, for security against
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Date_1	1802-06-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	2, 12
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	220	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37753
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