JB/116/288/002

Click Here To Edit

6 VII Escapes

there and elsewhere. The design - the known design- (there being a
design he of course would speak from- the plan neither he nor
any body could speak from. - Why? because there was none.-
As the foundation of the Colony, and for several years after- not
a thought bestowed by any body - either by the man of eloquence,
or by his man of economy (for as to the ostensible founder light
lay the earth upon his ashes) not a thought upon this the
most prominent object - the least palpably absurd of all its objects.
For years together, communications upon communications pouring
in all the while from the settlement - and all the while at the
Treasury pure negligence: and this in a time of peace, while
in this quarter as in all others, negligence was without excuse.
At last, when the idea of possibility was beat into the heads of
statesmen by experience, comes the remedy, consisting in an all-
-confounding dose, made up of a grain of ordinary prudence,
drowned in a torrent of most extraordinary injustice.-

Ask them, my Lord anyone, what it is gentlemen now think fit
to this characteristic feature of their "improved Colony"? At
what period did it first become an object to them? When their
Colony was first determined upon, was this use of it still unthought
of? Thus Then even in the minds of the authors the only ground
which any body could ever find for the measure, was still wanting
to it- Was this the original object of the measure? - When the
injustice, which consisted in the design, was all their own, while
the utitily, which depended on the measures taken for the
giving effect to the unjust design, was not so much as aimed
at. Let us pack them off to a place they can never get away
from, and then let them come back and welcome. Such was
the ground of action: proceeding: - the mere crude idea without a particle of
the

---page break---

Identifier: | JB/116/288/002 "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	288	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	d5 f61 / d6 f62
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37821
Box Contents