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"away from the Colony was now" (says he) "a matter of some
"difficulty, as it was understood that a clause was to be
"inserted in all future Contracts for shipping for the Colony,
"subjecting the masters to certain penalties, on certificates being
"received of their having brought away any Convicts or other
"persons from this settlement without the Governor's permission;
"and as it was not probable that many of them would, on
"their return, refrain from the vices or avoid the society of
"those companions who had been the causes of their transportation
"to this Country, not many could hope to obtain the
"sanction of the Governor for their return."

"It was understood": viz: by the author, Captain Collins,
the Judge Advocate: most probably from the tenor of the instructions
sent, from the Secretary of State's office now Your Lordship's, to the Governor; at any
rate from the conversation of the Governor, the Governor speaking
from those instructions.

In this most instructive paragraph, Your Lordship the reader
sees at once, the monstrous, yet in that quarter but too frequent,
and natural, combination — the combination of gross negligence
with gross oppression and injustice: in the first place the negligence,
and then, to make up for it, the injustice. For four
or five years — for the time that none of the Convicts could
return without break of the law — the door is left wide open
for their return: as soon as their right of returning takes
place, then it is that the door is shut — shut against all alike —
right or no right — by the undistinguishing hand of blind
and lawless tyranny. —

Till now, the mask had been kept on — the hand of oppression
had worked unseen — the force of nature — the preventive powers
of

Identifier: | JB/116/287/002 "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	287	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 f59 / d4 f60
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37820
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