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True Bastile

11 Jany 1803

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The Once more, it is not in the injury to the individuals is not however that
main grievance which constitutes we are to look for the main object of the
present pages: nor yet in the so much more extensive mischief, accruing injury done to the whole body
of the community, by from the repugnancy of the system
to every one of the ends of penal justice. These are the
topics already handled at least if not exhausted elsewhere.

The grievance by which has provoked alone the present disputation
was provoked, was is of of a still higher
rank. It consists of the wound given to the whole
body of his Majesty's subjects, through the sides of that people of the people, in what used at least to be the
constitution, which by tenderest part—a wound—in the vitals of that their ancestors forefathers at least
used to be held so dear was an object of such fond
attachment, a subject of such unceasing jealousy. Over upon

The vitals of the
constitution and the
very vitals part of that
Constitution
is the seat of it.

In this point of view the impression sensation made by
the discovery was such as I can conceive imagine to have
been produced on the part of many excellent worthy men
more jealous though not more ardent lovers of that constitution than myself, in by
the use made the case of General Warrants before the illegality of
the power so assumed had been established by judicial
authority.

British subjects, the agents of the Crown, have exercised legislative
power have legislated for a course of 14 years without authority from Parliament:+
they have exercised an authority so compleatly
is compleatly autocratical as was ever exercised in
Russia: they have maintained a tyranny—not the once
formed argumentative tyranny of forty days, but a too real tyranny
of 14 years: they have exercised it not only over this
or that degraded class alone whose ignominy may seem to have
separated their lot from the common lot of their fellow subjects,
but over multitudes as free from blemish as themselves: they
have exercised it for the purpose of violating the principles exercising the most glaring
of justice of oppression: for the purpose of inflicting punishment without
guilt issue upon or whom the whole fund of just and legal punishment
had already been exhausted.+2

+ they have legislated
not in this or that
case only but in
all cases.

+ The conclusions
to which the investigation
tends being thus
announced, the proof
will constitute the principal
matter of the ensuing pages.

Identifier: | JB/116/351/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1803-01-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	8
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	351	Info in main headings field	true bastile
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37884
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