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24 Pan & N.S. Wales

5. Economy
3. Colonies

Cross questions
Colonies goot to
make places

At one of those periods of general when Judges young men
to dance, used to dance as now with maidens and Judges with one another if in the circle of fashion any such juvenile pastimes should
come return round there is to players <add>to grown gentlemen</add> can of those games known
on such occasions by the name of games, might
serve to add instruction to measurement, if introduced into one
or two of the higher political circles such as the Convict Board
or the Board of Trade. I mean the diverting game of Cross Questions.
Under the mask of chance, an innocent artifice will ever and in
on those occasions give birth to odd coincidences. At every
such Board, as at any other more festive and more innocent
Board, the character of the questions would naturally suit itself to
that of the Company. What are Colonies good for? To
says some sage personage in the right hand The answer To promote naval power — to promote natural wealth — [some such
or something to that effect says of course the direct answer answer would be the direct one.] says the gentleman some sage personage on the on my
right hand to breed place + says a person respondent of less pretension gravity
on the left, who in giving his answer to the next question little thought of the
application that was to be made of it. In the perpetual contest with
his natural enemy would I think be found to have <add>transportation the two natural enemies, Mirth and Gravity, would
for this time in his side in a case like this, be friend to have
Truth, I think, on his side.

In our contest with America what is it that we
test? The advantage at stake was nothing: the real loss consisted in the blood and treasure wasted in the pursual playing of
that desperate game. When I say nothing — I mean nothing
to the nation in the aggregate. But some amongst
us list places and the chance chances for places: others the amusement
that accompanies the privileged operation of filling up such places
<foreign> : — from these losses come the tears.

+ Alter the word

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Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	256	Info in main headings field	pan & n. s. wales
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