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32 VII Expirees

confinement any where in England two things require here
to be observed - 1st That it would be no more than the
fulfillment of promises already made: 2nd That being but
being a compliance with the respective laws it is no more
than what used to take place under the do transportation
system- no more than would have taken place had
there never been any such Colony as New South Wales.
Notwithstanding this, there is, it must be confessed, in the
idea of such influx of something that can scarce fail
to strike a sort of horror terror into every breast that thinks of it.

This terror, so far as it is inspired by reason
and reflection, has two main grounds, which distinguish
the exigency in question from former times. Under the original
transportation system, a great part were reformed (I
have stated elsewhere by what causes) of whom again a
great part, perhaps the greatest part, staid abroad: and,
whether reformed or not, those who did return dropped in
gradually, and in small numbers, as their terms expired.
Under Mr Pitt's system, they have been almost without
exception, worse corrupted than before: and, where the
unbending rules of strict justice to be obeyed, the accumulated
corruption of so many years would come pouring into the
country all at once —

Such being the knot, what course can be taken, for
the untying, or even the cutting it?—

Expedients certainly have occurred to me, by which a
a middle course might be pursued, and the sum total of
evil lessened: but, in the present state of things, the labour
of defending, or stating, or even an arguing and maturing them,
would

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	301	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	d31 f87 / d32 f88
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37834
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