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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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Identifier: | JB/116/301/002
"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

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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