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innocent wife or innocent children having, under a mistaken
confidence in the justice and humanity of government, suffered
themselves to be transported to this unknown region, should, by
the improvidence and injustice and inhumanity of men in
power, see themselves confined there perhaps for life, is indeed
a melancholy state of things: but it will be difficult to say
that the injustice, done to any number of individuals thus
circumstanced would be verified, by adding to it another of
the same kind. The solution of the difficulty is not difficult:
to those who sent those innocents thither, belongs in justice
the care and the expence of sending them back again.—

The more doubtful the course proper to be taken on this
occasion, the clearer the abominableness of the system, and the improvidence
and incapacity of those by whom it was contrived:
contrived without any known pretence, and afterwards itself
magnified in the talk of conviction, into a pretence — a pretence
for relinquishing a system without spot, clear of this as well
as all other abominations.

No. 6 (p. 169) July 1791 — Information given by the Governor
to the Expirees that those who wishes not to become settlers
in New South Wales were .... to work there for twelve or
eighteen months certain and that afterwards "no obstacles would
"be thrown in the way of their return to England": but as to
"assistance" for any such purpose nobody was to "expect" it.
Another practical comment on the maxims of justice avowed
as in No 3 by the Judge Advocate. A free man de jure
made bond again for twelve or eighteen months. Of the two
assurances that of no assistance appears to have been fulfilled
with sufficient punctuality. As to the no hindrance what
became

Identifier: | JB/116/293/001 "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	293	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	d15 f71 / d16 f72
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37826
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