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9 Jany 1803 New S. Wales. Illegality. True Bastile
§1. Beginning
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Policy
the first
Legibility not like
§.1. Subject Occasion matter — object — and plan
In the course of two tracts, which, before the by the
time these pages are of the press may or may not
have been made public the On the ground of expediency
natural justice as well as expediency, a view — nor
that a slight or hasty one — has already been given of
the penal Colony of New South Wales * (a).
The business object of the present tract pages is of a much higher
nature: The effect of the present tract is business of it is to examine</ad> the
same establishment <add>institute in the ground of positive law: and in
so doing to state for the consideration of such of my fellow subjects,
if much be, to whom the Constitution under which we draw our breath, may appear be regarded as
The policy of the measure had from the first, presented
itself to me as more than doubtful: questionable: [years before
many and many, before the particular inducements, by
which I was led to the a closer invigilation, had so unfortunately
occurred to me:] it was not till very lately that so
much as a suspicion on the score ground of legality, had
ever flashed upon my mind started itself came across me.
presented itself to my view
In the survey inquiry instituted take with a view to the question of
expediency occasioned on the one hand to observe
the proceedings on the acts done by the local authority
the cause of the foundation management of the Colony
on the other hand, the laws passed by Parliament for their purpose
Copy the Titles
(a) In two tracts intituled Letters addressed to Lord Pelham [the Right Honourable
the Lord Pelham] in his quality of Principal
Secretary of State for the Home Department] the one
the other
the <add>violation</add>
it has undergone by
which it has
the system of misgovernment
from the of principal
by which this
conduct by which
nursery of martial law
was originally planted
been set
and now for
ever since, during
than a of more than
that 16 years past has been
conducted and upheld.
2.
From a Examination of
the policy known
the
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