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23 July 1802

N.S. Wales. Conduct
VIII. Jeopardy

The people are
inexcusable if they
suffer such grievances
to remain
unredressed.

If Parliament and people the good people of this realm which so happily for
us all can not now be comprehended by any name
so short as Puritans,—if with the picture so spread
at out before them us, they we should be are content to sit still
and see so large a portion of ourselves themselves crouching
under a perpetual yoke of tyranny disposition and injustice and oppression
—if on pretence of their having been once being delinquents, we forget
that they are men—if we continue to behold with
indifference the sufferings of those, whose lot misfortune
rather than any thing else has thrown at so great a has so widely distinguished
distance from that of their fellow men if with
such a call from sympathy as deliver us up to
the suggestions of a blind and unfailing selfishness
the oppressions we are content to see exercised in
others will one day be brought home to ourselves,
and we shall as surely be bereft find ourselves
bereft stript of those distinctions we are so careless of, as
we shall richly deserve merit it.

On this head, what of old was delivered was given as a lesson of
charity, may without any pretence to inspiration more than ordinary
wisdom be given improved/translated into as to rule of political prudence. That ye Of those
that those eighteen in whom the lover of Siloam fell, was
"and slew them think ye that they were sinners above all that
"dwelt in Jerusalem?
"I tell you, Nay: but for unless you repent, ye shall all
likewise perish." +1 So this, which were it ever conveyd
through so unedifying a article as that of a Sunday
newspaper I would take upon me venture to recommend, as not unworthy
of the notice even of Lord Belgrave.+2

+1 For repentance,
there is indeed but too
much cause on both
parts: on ours parts,
who have escaped their
lot task, for the inattention
with which we have beheld
the unmerited part of their
suffering as well as on
their parts, for those transgression
by which the lawful part of it was brought on upon them.

+2 We have no time
to lose: we have a
long of negligence
to fetch up: and
how much better that
a business like this
it should be taken up
in the first instance
at once by Parliament
than out of which in
such a case is so little different
from saying in spite
of Parliament.

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Date_1	1802-07-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
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