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N.S. Wales

12 June 1802

Conduct
VII Escapes

into the heads of these statesmen by experience, comes the
remedy, consisting in an all-confounding chaos, made up under system of the
grossest oppression and injustice hodge-podge a dose, made up
of a grain of justice ordinary prudence drowned in a large portion of of most extraordinary injustice.

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Be this a
legitimate object
of the establishment
or not, thier conduct
is legally
indefensible: if
yes, for the negligence;
if not, for
the oppression.

Ask then, my Lord, what they it is they gentlemen now
think fit choose to say, with regard to this characteristic feature of supposed advantage? their "improved
"Colony?" At what period did it first become an object to them?
Will they own it? will they disown it?
When this Colony was first determined upon, was this use of
it still unthought of may well be left to them. These even in the minds of the
the choice is a choice of difficulty . Do
? authors the only ground which any body could
it be ever find for the measure, was still wanting to it.+ Was this the
original object of the
measure?
May it. Then the injustice, which consisted in
the intention design was all their own, which the utility, which
depended on the measures taken for the giving effect to the unjust intention design, was
not reaped by it not so much as aimed at. endeavoured to be reaped from it. Let us pack them off to a place send them as far off
they can never get away from, and then let them come back and welcome get back if they can. Such on that supposition
as , they will not get back so easily as they
have been used to to: was the ground of action /the ground of action/—the mere the crude idea, without a particle
of the most ordinary intelligence or diligence to
help give it its carry it into effect.
give it its chance Was it not unthought thought of, in this first place? the first instance? Their only supposed
feature which any body ever formed to of in their plan
was wanting to it.

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When they put
emancipated bondsmen
under this
illegal restraint
they put all freemen
under the
same restraint.

I say injustice—oppression—tyranny—universal
tyranny Nor yet was it to this degraded cast that the oppression
was confined: tyranny: for, if this account be to be taken for correct,)
not a human being existing in this colony was stood exempted
from it. So soon as the shipmasters were restrained
from "bringing away" "from the settlement" without the Governors
"permission" "any convicts", so soon were they restrained
from bringing away, without the same permission,
any "other persons":—The settlement was then thus converted,
or at least attempted to be converted, into an immense Bastile, a vast prison
in which rogues and honest men—supposed reformed
rogues under legal obligation to stay there in it, and supposed reformed rogues
having a legal right to quit it, were to be confined
under

Identifier: | JB/116/317/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-06-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-7
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	317	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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