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19 June 1802
N.S. Wales

I have already had occasion to mention to your Lordship
the Act of 1779 - the first Penitentiary Act - as an act in
which the anxiety display'd about the proportions accuracy of the adjustment
between the different lengths of chronical punishment had stood
from parliamentary commissions. I have already had occasion
to mention this same Act as the Act in which under
the spur of necessity the power possessed by the Crown of changing
the sum of transportation was for the first time confirmed created and
upon it. It is with this very act before them that
and under colour of this very Act that the friends of this colony
Mr Pitt and Mr Rose look upon those thus to convert all finite
lengths of transportation punishment into infinite. The
power given by the Act of 1784 the Act which in the Act of 1787
The Act their Now South Wales foundation Act they rule and
build upon, had been already given by the Act of 1779.
But they could not bear to look at it. They covered it
up they did by it as Greek or and Romish Sinners have been observed on
certain occasions been observed to do by the effigies of their
Saints The Act of 1779 was an act of unfortunate
Justice and were the ruling factors of the Act of
1779: the felicity of the result as I have had occasion to shew elsewhere was that quite altogether
correspondent to the laudableness of the endeavour: but, for
a point of principle, an act more truly respectable
was never touched by a British sceptre. Justice and
benevolence were the spirits that inspired the Act of 1779: Oppression
fraud, anarchy and despotism were dæmons that
suggested the Act of 1787.

Identifier: | JB/116/420/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-06-19	Marginal Summary Numbering	10
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	420	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d10 / e25
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37953
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