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Police Report
Expence of Punishment
N.S. Wales.

But of this sort of security should seriously be
thought fit to be purchased and worth purchasing
at any such price,+ viz: injustice it might surely be worth
considering whether a similar but superior degree
of security might not be capable of being purchased at some inferior
price. If instead of a wild country
under a military government a government without
regular controul at 8 months the distance of
an 8 months voyage from every thing a man
holds dear, the scene of his confinement were
to be a tract of land, walled in indeed for safe-
custody, but spacious enough to be stiled a
Farm,+ the change though on the supposed case
as in the actual one the confinement were to be
for life) the change would even thus be such
as the party would have little reason, and probably
be little disposed, to complain of. In this
case a degree of security which is now attempted
to be bought, but which is not to be bought for £44
a head might be bought at the worst for
one third of the money, but probably for considerably
less. It would then indeed be necessary for
Parliament to act above board to speak of
itself as doing what it meant to do—to throw off
disguises, and to look its own proceedings in the
face. The same number of persons who now +
find means to escape their secretly intended doom, might
then be exempted from the succedaneum succedaneous doom proposed,
but with this difference, that the selections exceptions
would be the result—not of chance, or (what is
worse) connection with guilty opulence—but
mercy with wisdom for its guide. And Mr Bentham
to whom Your Committee have communicated are indebted for this idea
ready to do what depends upon him for carrying it into
effect.II

+ it is
Your Committee (have
the intended Penitentiary
Establishment in view
that Your Committee
has in view)

to have done

with or without the law
on their side

under or without the favour allowance
of the law.

II Appendix
Mr Bentham's examination.

Identifier: | JB/149/144/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	144	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d17
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	49998
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