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27 June 1802 9 N. S. Wales

Conduct
and Escapes
So far as the account goes, Your Lordship has seen the instructions, such as they were received
in " August 1792 in 179. I will now present Your Lordship with the
in 179 Such were the instructions: now, my Lord, of the
execution and effect of effect of them: prefacing it with an account of <add>the events of</add> the preceding period of
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Effect of the want
of plan
1. Where there was
no plan formed
for preventing the
return of non-
-expirees, expirees
were by
right - real or
pretended of not
sending out the papers
evidencing the length
of their terms.
opposite instruction, or no - instruction, I am unable to say which.

In July 1789 when "little more than two years
"had elapsed since the departure" of the first expedition "from
Collins p. 74.
"England, several Convicts," alledging that their terms were
expired, "claimed to be restored to the privilege of freemen."
Were the allegations true? This was what could not be verified. ascertained:
to make sure, they were kept on in bondage. The papers (it is said) had been delivered to "the Masters
"of the transports:" and these they men, instead of bringing them
to New South Wales, left them, or pretended to have left
with them, with their owners in England.(a) The story is
(a) Note in p. 59 60
quoting the passage
as curious as it is obscure: Papers directed sent from
the Secretary of States Office, and, directed either to the
Governor, or to the Judge Advocate — for to whom else could
it they have been directed? Papers thus directed, delivered — not to the person in
New South Wales England to whom they were directed, but to a person in
England, who had little no business with them: and that
happening not misdelivery not performed by one person
only, but by an unknown unspecified number of persons, perhaps at the
same time or different times. same time, perhaps at different successive times. Be this as it may, their the
affidavits of the claimants were taken and, by the candour
allegations were by the Judge Advocate the most candid of
and discernment of the Judge Advocate, the allegations were with the
highest appearance of reason regarded (it seems) regarded it appears as true: and indeed they
could scarcely have been otherwise, unless the intelligence of knowledge of an omission
such as no human ingenuity could have imagined
had found its way to persons in the situation of the convicts:
a fact which is not reported, neither probable
in itself, nor stated as such by Captain Collins.

In England, the presumption is always, according
to the if the so much , and too often even superstitously pursued law is to be believed, in favorum
libertatus. Thus, at the antipodes, when justice is turned topsy-turvy,

Identifier: | JB/116/320/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-06-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	320	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37853
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