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so and circumstances so
painfully

use to get rid of that by I know
not what fatality — a fatality at times incident to the
and wisest of men will occasion all future consideration
to in moderate ease. We are assured by the
highest and most sacred authority that offences will
be, but should leave it to the joint judge of all the
earth to say to Sir by whom the offence cometh.

At the same time every Government shews itself wise
and by holding in the severest scourge
to view, and even by interpretation such as are altogether incorrigible;
or if capital punishment be deemed inexpedient
they might be for ever from the Country:
but slighter offences and those of less might
disposed of to advantage is or or
dismissed by proper reprehension and instant corporal
chastisement, or by finding bail for their future good
conduct and making the amplest restitution.

This Ship, Sir, exemplifies all that I have remarked
of the general body. Except the Chaplain &c
Surgeon who are truly respectable and exert themselves
to the utmost for the general good, and a
few others of less influence intrusted with the care
of the convicts, the rest are for the most part full
bad as they themselves. Owing to the imposition on all
hands by Contractors, Agents, Victuallers, & Captains
nine at a time out[?] of 400 have lain dead on the
shore the pictures of raggedness, filth, & starvation
and this at a period no farther distant than
Novr 1801.[?]

Latterly extortions have met with a check
from the exertions of Mr Moss the Surgeon aboard;
but owing to the force of long established custom
and the connivance of those in command a great
variety of disorders and malpractices still exist
out of the 400 prisoners at least 200 are what they call Johnny Raws, i.e. country
Bumpkins in whose composition there is more of
the fool than rogue; fellows who at the tail of
the plough and the occupations of industry might
greatly contribute to benefit the nation while
in this place they do not day with another
case altogether 200d toward defraying the weighty
disbursements for their support of the sort the
greater part

Identifier: | JB/117/252/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1803-01-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	252	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	george lee	Watermarks	[[watermarks::1800 [bell motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	38869
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