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17 7- N. S. Wales

VII Escapes According to the account given by Captain Collins in the
same paragraph, at the very time of giving this assurance, the
intention was that it should not be fulfilled. For now it was
that "it was understood" (now for the first time, as already observed)
"that a clause was to be inserted in all future contracts for
"shipping for this country, subjecting the masters to certain
"penalties, on certificates being received of their having brought
"away any Convicts or other persons from the 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". — A promise was thus
given to all - and this at the very time when it was understood—
understood, not by those who received it, but only by those who
gave it, that "not many" would ever receive the benefit of it. —
No wonder: since in the bosom of the Governor there was this
dilemma for every one: — are you a bad man ? — you would do mischief
elsewhe
re: are you a good man? we can't spare you. It
was by this last horn of the syllogism, that Bloodsworth was
hung up — the good Convict mentioned in No..3. "As his loss
"would be severely felt should he quit it" (the Colony)" while in
hi "its infancy" therefore it was that he received what is
called his freedom — viz: an obligation to work for two years,
having for his recompence the not being starved. —

To say nothing of the perfidy — the wanton useless perfidy —
there is in this business a sort of inconsistency which to me
is most perfectly inexplicable. If guided by his own untutored &
uncorrupted sense of justice, the Governor had set out with this exhilerating



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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

294

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

d17 f73 / d18 f74

Penner

john herbert koe

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

37827

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