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N. S. Wales 5 VII Escapes

of local distance - had been trusted to - nature herself having
been thus perverted into an instrument of iniquity - a tool
of dispensing power. The mask was now thrown off and the
Monster presented itself in undisguised deformity. I mean that face
of it which was seen where the power was felt - in New South Wales:
till now. Not only had this most obvious precaution [x] been neglected,[x]
but at this time, no instructions whatever for the Governor, in any
such view as that of preventing the return of Convicts - at least
of de jure emancipated Convicts - had been received. For at this
very time (as we learn from the paragraph next before the
above) such as should be desirous of returning to England were
"informed, that no obstacle would be shown in their way" (the
way of those Convicts whose sentences of transportation had expired+)
+ Collins p. 229 "they being at liberty to ship themselves on board of such vessels
"as would give them a passage". - Such was the communication,
-such the language, which justice would naturally dictate to
honourable minds; unfettered as yet and uncorrupted, by instructions
as oppressive and perfidious as they were illegal.

Yet, it is after this, that among the ingredients in the
composition of the "utility" of this "settlement" the "circumstances of
"its freeing the Mother Country from the depraved branches of her
"offspring"++ is mentioned by its ci-devant Judge Advocate, and still ++ Preface pp. IX,X
faithful though ever candid and honourable advocate, upon the
list. Whence then, it may be asked; comes this language, and
under circumstances so little favourable to the use of it? Whence?
but that such (as I have all along said ) was the design on both
floors of the Treasury and the design - the only ostensible one, being
of course no secret, such was the conversation on the subject,
there

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	288	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 f61 / d6 f62
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37821
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