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N.S. Wales

9 July 1802

Conduct
VII Escapes

19
Orders—General
liberty of departure
—with the intention of not
allowing it—
Instruction for preventing
departure
expected.

Conduct of the Governor towards Expirees, at and after August
1792: at which time the liberty of departure was submitted to his
pleasure by Instructions from him, subjected to his pleasure.

No 8 9. p. 280. Aug 1792. "Such (expirees) as should
"be desirous of returning to England were informed, that no
"obstacle would be thrown in their way, they being at liberty
"to ship themselves on board of such vessels as would give
"them a passage".

According to the account given by Captain Collins in
this same paragraph this information was this assurance
at the very time of giving this assurance, the intention was that it should not it was given was not intended to be fulfilled.
For now it was (for the first time as already observed)
that "it was understood that—(now for the first time, as already observed) that a clause was to be inserted
"in all future contracts for shipping for this country subjecting
"the masters to certain penalties, on certificates
"being received of their having brought away any Convicts
"or other persons from the settlement without the Governor's
"permission: and as it was not probable that many of
"them would, in their return, refrain from the view, or avoid
"the society, of these companions who had been the causes
"of their transportation to this country, not many could hope
"to obtain the sanction of the Governor for their return".
A promise was thus given to all—and at this the very time when it
was understood by those who that "not many" would ever return the
benefit of it.
No wonder: since in the bosom of the Governor there was this
dilemma for every one. If you Sir You a bad man? you will would
do mischief in elsewhere: if you Are you a good man, we
can't spare you. It was by this last of the syllogism,
that Bloodworth was hung up—the good Convict mentioned
in No 3. "For his loss would be severely felt, should
"he quit it" (the Colony) "while in its infancy," therefore it
was that he received what is called his freedom—viz:an obligation
to work for two years, years without any objection than
having for his recompense the not being starved.

To say nothing of the perfidy—the wnaton careless perfidy—
there is in this business an inconsistenc[y] a sort of inconsistency which to me is
No 19. p.268. February 1793. most perfectly inexplicable. If guided
by his own untutored and uncorrupted sense of justice, the Govenor
had set out with this exhilarating assurance, and afterwards, by
instructions from his superiors had found himself compelled
to revoke it, and had revoked it accordingly, the case would have
been intelligible enough. But here no such assurance is given
untill the very time when, spontaneously or under instructions, a resolution
is taken not to fulfill it.

+ understood, by
men not by those
who received it,
but only by those
who gave it.

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Date_1	1802-07-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	19
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	327	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b15 / b3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37860
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