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ought to have been, and those who could not lawfully be detained
there — one piece of information would be necessary, which I have
not been able to find in the Journal of Captain Collins. This
is — whether to the Instructions by which this branch of the
liberty of the subject was thus subject was thus subjected to
the will and pleasure of the local despot, any and what other
instruction (secret it must evidently have been, if any,) was annexed,
tending to give direction or in any other way set limits, to the
exercise of that will and pleasure. If so, what phasis (if one
may so say,) of the will of the despot here at home was turned
towards this branch of liberty in the instance of the Expirees?
whether the Governor was commanded to permitt their departure
from the Colony, or was forbidden to permit it, or received
permission in express words, to forbid it or permit it at his
discretion, or was left in possession of that liberty by silence?
Points, these of entire indifference at this time, to the fate of the
wretches this detained in durance, but of no small movement to
so many lofty personages, who, if the constitution be thought
worth preserving, will have to answer for it here at home. —

So far as the account goes, Your Lordship has seen the
instructions, have here been seen such as they were received in August 1792. I will
now present Your Lordship the reader with the execution and effect of them:
prefacing it with the events of the preceding period of opposite
instruction, or no-instruction, I am unable to say which.—

In July 1799 when "little more than two years had elapsed
"since the departure" of the first expedition "from England several
Collins p.74 "Convicts" alledging that their terms were expired "claimed to be
"restored to the privilege of freemen". Were the allegations true?
This was what could not be ascertained. — To make sure they
were



Identifier: | JB/116/289/002
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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

289

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

d7 f63 / d8 f64

Penner

john herbert koe

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

1800

Notes public

ID Number

37822

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