JB/116/324/002

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N.S. Wales

Mar 1802

1. Ends
3. Incapacitation
Efficiency of
the expedient
Facility of
return.

When I speak of the banishment—the only regular and strictly
legal part of the actual punishment—as being under every
length possible of duration, in reality of the longest. I speak of it
on the supposition
of its being that
sort and
degree of punishment
which those who
suppose most strongly
of it hope and
expect to find it

Thus stands the arrangement on the ground of intention:
but now how is it in point of
effect? The scandal of the stretch of power remedy remains in
all its force: but while the effect produced by it in the way
of preventive efficacy falls extremely miserably short
by a great deal of the expectations which gave birth to it of the contrivers.
Many whose stay term is expired, and who, with
whatever views, pant for another glance of native home
do indeed stay there, according to the intention of the contrivance
stay there because the accomplishment of their wishes
is physically impossible. But many and abundantly
more in abundance than the contrivers of could have thought
for leave this escape from scene of intended annihilation, and
return to pester afflict this country with again with their
pernicious existence.

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The use of the
plan, and the security
afforded by
it in this respect grows
less and less, as the
colony in other respects
is more
and more improved.

Under this head there are two other points remarkable.

One is that the efficacy of the remedy in this view
has a natural and necessary tendency to diminish grow less and less every day/continually ad infinitum: the
force of it is in the exact inverse ratio of the
improvement of the Colony country: of the extent and frequency of the
intercourse of this with other countries: of the degree
of use made of it in this or any other view:
so that the more "improved" the state of the country becomes
in all other particular respects, the more unfit it becomes
with reference for the only real and substantial use that any body
has ever seen or professed pretended to see in it.
Another

Identifier: | JB/116/324/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-07-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	11-14
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	324	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b11 / b1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37857
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