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N.S. Wales Conduct
VII. Escapes
22


2. Second breach
Permission given to
flee, denied to
many.

No 12. p. 283. 24 April 1793. A second opportunity
for manifesting the sincerity of the before mentioned assurance,
and the manifestation is of the same kind. But few Convicts
(meaning Expirees(says Captain Collins) "were allowed to quit the Colony in
"these ships": by which it is evident that it was want of
permission on the part of the Governor, and not want of
room or any other facility that prevented the members from
being greater. On a former The ships were two. On another
occasion, in November 1794 it appears that the number of Convicts received on board two
ships only (the Endeavour and the Fancy) enough ships had been near a hundred : whereof
fifty by permission, never fifty more without it.

12 23
Permission granted.

No 13. p.290 4th June 1793. Six Expirees (one of them
a female) was left the Colony at this time permitt by permission in one
single Vessel: (the Kitty) although there were no fewer than
thirteen other passengers there of them of the class of gentlemen:
another proof how small the number of Expirees, to whom the preceding actually permission
occasion the permission was already given, in comparison of the number
in whom it might have been extended.

24
3. Third branch
Two male Expirees
stopped and flogged.

No 14 p. 316. 3d October 1793. A third manifestation of what is looked upon passes for or
supersedes good faith is sincerity in a Governor of New South Wales. On this
day sailed the Boddington, and the Sugar Cane for Bengal.
"From the Sugar Cane were brought up the day she sailed
"two men whose terms as Convicts were expired. They having had
"got on board without permission":—for this "the Lieutenant
Governor directed them to be punished with fifty lashes each,
and sent up to Toongabbie.

13 25
Expirees created
all as Bondsmen.

No 15. p.474. 4th October 1796. No Expiree was
now allowed "to remain himself" "without permission" "from
"the public work". "But, Notwithstanding this had been declared
"in public order, many withdrew themselves ... on the day
"of their servitude ceasing. They were apprehended—they
were punished.
For this they were "punished and ordered again
"to labour". "They seized (could they be blamed?) the first
"opportunity of running away." "We" (says Capitan Collins) were well
convinced, that "by these people and those who harboured them (viz: the
Expiree settlers in general) every theft was committed. What
a dilemma for the Governor! Not to act illegally was acting
mischievously. Such was is the situation in which the Governors of this
improved and now improving Colony were placed, and during the existence
of it doomed for ever to continuance,
by the wisdom
and probity of Mr
Pitt!



Identifier: | JB/116/329/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.

Date_1

1802-07-09

Marginal Summary Numbering

22-25

Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

329

Info in main headings field

n. s. wales

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

b17

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

1800

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1800

Notes public

ID Number

37862

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