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9th July 1802
N.S. Wales

No 9 10 p. 268. Feby 1793. At this time the expectation
about the clause in the charter party for preventing the Shipmasters from runaways the charge any person
whatever on board "from the Colony, without the express
consent and order of the Governor" was found to be realized
The Bellona, arrived the 15th of Jany 1793 came provided with this clause.
She had sailed from England on the 8th of August 1792.
The "improved" Colony was thus improved into a pretty
compleat Bastile: a key only being put into the hand of
the Governor with liberty to let loose any person whom
he might be induced to favour. Into the jaws of this
Bastile came out by the same vessel several free and
honest families. They had been inveigled thither by
conditions held out by government. These conditions are
stated by Captain Collins (p. 267.) Among these conditions
I do not observe that of being dependent for their return on
the arbitrary will and pleasures of a succession of unknown
Governors, the instruments of an arbitrary and perfidious Minister
and his successors.

No 10 11 p. 265 268</adee> 24 April 1793 <add>19 February 1792. The sincerity of the assurance
given in the preceding August, as numbered in
No 8 9 began now to manifest itself. On this day sailed
No 10 p. 268. 19 February 1792 this same for Canton this
same ship the Bellona. Only In this ship had been received six persons from
the settlement: two of them expirees, by permission: two
others also, but without without also by permission: as likewise two now-expirees
These four fugitives were discovered by smoking the ship, an operation, for which the consent of the Master
(so it is particularly stated) had been obtained. Of the non-expirees it is stated
that they had not yet served the full periods of their sentences
From this statement it seems but reasonable to
infer that even had these they returned to England, they would
not have been landed there till after the day time at which they</del> expiration of
specified <add>had a right to be stand on British ground. Be this as it may, this much
is out of doubt, that by this order the assurance given in
the preceding one of August 1792 was compleatly violated:
and that in respect of the faculty of leaving the Colony there
the condition of those who had a right and those had not a
right was the same: the same on under the eye, and by the act of
every Governor, by whom the existence of the right had [+] been noticed and recognized: so that by his own shewing, he kept them there in defiance of the law.

Identifier: | JB/116/328/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-07-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	20-21
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	328	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b16 / b4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37861
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