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N.S. Wales

28 July 1802

Conduct

VII Escapes
27 continued

One thing appears—as plain as any thing need appear—
upon the face of this most honourable and candid ingenious and upright testimony.
So far as appearances and engagements are in question,
as Heraticks were once said to be to the Church of Rome
so have convicts been always been, including those who
had ceased to be so, to a Governor of New South Wales.
Faith was not necessary to be kept with them: nor was it kept,
(Your Lordship sees) unless by accident, when gentlemen
happened to be were in a mood for keeping it.

In themselves, and in all the gentlemen in question were, by
every account, honourable men; and in every any situation
but this would probably have contained but this, no exception would probably have ever been taken to the word. Two misfortunes
had befallen them:—they had been placed in a situation where no
in which no were as no human being ought to be placed: and in
that situation they had taken their lessons from the Treasury:
I mean always (for there I stop for the present) the Treasury of
I mean the Treasury of that day. In that impressive
School of despotism and disorder, they had learnt to
understand—and to understand but too plainly—that the
improbability or probability of impunity is the true
and only practical measure of right and wrong+—mediately
or immediately, they had held converse with Mr Pitt. From
that Right Honourable person it must have been that him it is they must have learnt,

they learnt, that the rules necessary to be observed in dealing
with men who had once been Convicts, were of no are of no
more a sort tighter purpose no others than those which shortly afterwards
the same Right Honourable person found a convenience
in shewing, towards one whose humble ambitions it
had been to meliorate the lot of Convicts: and that in the seat where
of power power is thought impregnable good faith is either not worth the keeping, or that,
when combined with power thus entrenched, it admitts of it consists in an open, and
inexorable, and pretenceless violation of undenied assurances
and engagements.

+ Yes—that was
their misfortune—

Think not however, my Lord, that I mean to
point out a Governor Wall in the improved Colony. I see
not—I never have seen—any such person there.—Too
little regard for engagements—a little occasional passion—too
constant haughtiness—but still no studied cruelty—no, my
Lord:— the true Wall is the Treasury Wall here at home: the
man

man who, after organizing
ruin by interested
perfidy can could sit enjoying feasting
on it for seven years
together, in vengeance for
the injuries he had done.

Identifier: | JB/116/333/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-07-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	27 continued
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	333	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d21
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37866
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