JB/116/385/001

Click Here To Edit

26 Jun 03
(10

But why says somebody start put such extreme
cases? why what informer can be drawn from start such improbably suppositions thus
improbable. Under a government constitution such as ours,
can a t man pretend to entertain any serious apprehension
of a Bastile Bastile? I answer true: hitherto,
not: scan the Habeas Corpus Act no such apprehensions
have in general been entertained. But why? because
there stands — there has stood all along has been the Habeas Corpus
Act: and, no such construction as that contended against having ever been put upon it, it has been regarded
— and has regarded by every body — as commensurate
to the mischief — as sufficient for the prevention
of it. But, upon the construction contended against
it is would no longer be commensurate to the mischief. On that construction At this
moment these crests, for these fourteen years there has
been existing existed a Bastile; and New South Wales is that
Bastile. The o cla As yet indeed it is not yet open
for the reception of all comers. For The descriptions alone
can it as yet be made to some. Delinquents of shapes opposite enough
certain classes descriptions after their expiration terms of legal punishment
— are refused! and military men of all ranks
and divisions: mariner and navy not excluded.
Upon the talks of the two classes what should hinder it from being
employ'd? Upon the former it has been employ'd and
employd for them been employing years. The professional — the titled defenders of their
country are not (it may be said) in any such defenceless helpless state
as the victims upon whom the oppression has been thus
already exercised: — trec the former are not like the latter,
als without

Identifier: | JB/116/385/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1803-01-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	385	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37918
Box Contents