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20 July 1802 + Notes *5 7 N. S. Wales Conduct

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Note to p. 71 3

VII Escapes
(a)
Proof of criminal
consciousness on the
part of the Treasury
in respect of the illegality
of detaining
Expirees, J.B.s
representation of it
in his attendances Believe who will any such ignorance, it is impossible
for me to believe it: having the same proof of the contrary
as I have of my own existence. As To a
Board of Treasury, held for the purpose of going from
to the returns to be made on this subject to the Committee
of Finance, I attended upon summons. Having the
honour to be more or less known to every Gentleman present,
the proceedings necessarily took of conversation
conversation fell insensibly for into the tone of conviviality
as amongst acquaintance. New South Wales
amongst other things as a connected topic came upon the carpet. Under favour
of the general good humour, I took the opportunity of
th drawing the attention perhaps I suppose I must not say if the
Board, but I will say of all the Members of it,
with Mr and the one of the Secretaries and I don't know how many Clerks) of
drawing the attention of that company at any rate at any rate to the
condition and the rights of the legally emancipated Convicts. [+]
[+] It is only under
in when where gravity
occupies the place of
wisdom, that any repugnancy
is supposed
between truth and pleasantry. I assumed as a matter of course, that as fast as their
rights revived, means would be formulated for the conveyance
of their homes. A smile from every body
and an observation answer from somebody. "No, not quite so
accommodating as that comes to: if they choose to return, get away
it is their business to get away as they can: there
is nothing to hinder them. — Nothing to you say to
hinder them? You mean no legal obstacles: [+]2 [+]2 very kind indeed! nothing
stronger than physical, and those insuperable ones? The
notice general: the laugh general: the situation
of those wretches, as well as that of the laws respecting them
was present to every eye: — it passed for a good joke. As What
I spoke, so I said, that I thought: viz. that no obstacles but the purely
physical ones — were the obstacles attached to the geographical distance of
the scene were ever opposed. But this was in 1798: and at that
very time for five or six years together, they with the privity and
assistance

Identifier: | JB/116/226/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-07-20	Marginal Summary Numbering	(a)
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	226	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3 / f3* / f71
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	[[notes_public::"this sheet and the next not to be copied now" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	37759
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