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used to say) proving thus abortive, experience bid
men look to
some other field was to be found for any
renewal of the experiment.

for any
second enterprize

The more remote from observation, the more favourable
to the purpose. The position of New South Wales is at
the antipodes. The theatre of war for this time was
transferred to New South Wales.

Upon this less brilliant but better concerted
enterprize, fortune has hitherto bestowed all her smiles.
The conquest made in Great Britain scarce lasted out
the experimental forty days.
was abandoned as
soon as made.
The attack made in
New South Wales found no resistance, and already the
country
howsoever it may have been with the Settlement itself, the tyranny so
happily planted in it

has been flourishing already for above these
fourteen years.

Against such dominion, such as this established as if it is, thus far the form established "insurrection"
may surely be said to be a right, if not as some
would add, "a duty." Insurrection, conspiracy, treason,
every thing of that sort is accordingly the object here
"compassed and imagined": treason, not precisely against
the constitution indeed, but unquestionably against
the despotism so lately built upon the ruins of it:
conspiracy, though of a somewhat new complexion, to
match the features of the domination struck at a con corresponding to the novelty of the domination plotted against it: — conspiracy,
in Parliament and by Parliament, with the
Sovereign de jure at the head of it: conspiracy, the
fruit of which would be, to exert engage the constitutional
Ex-King to rebel and rise upon the despot, to pluck
the sceptre from his hand, and grasp, and to re-ascend in his
place the too long abdicated throne "deserted", not to
say "abdicated", throne.




Identifier: | JB/116/275/003
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

275

Info in main headings field

Image

003

Titles

the british constitution conquered in new south wales

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f4 / f4

Penner

Watermarks

1800

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

1800

Notes public

see note to letter 1790, vol. 7

ID Number

37808

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