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with the Receivers
of stolen goods here at home, is a cause more likely perhaps
than any other. It is known, and is stated
in Mr Colquhoun's evidence that among the criminals
by which the Metropolis is infected are some who
have paid their visit to this distant region: so that even
in the present state of things the security is not entire.

But it may be worth enquiring whether the advantages
looked for from this establishment are not
dependent upon its weakness: and whether as it
to be grows less disadvantageous in the character
of an instru- respect point of finance, it will
not grow less advantageous in the character of an instrument
of police. The more thriving, the more frequented:
the more frequented the less the difficulty
of return. The more thriving too, the less terrible.
To persons in some circumstances, to persons who
otherwise would have been disposed to emigrate, it
may lose its terms altogether: especially if, by
money or other means, the servitude might be avoidable.+
While to some the emigration remains it is a punishment, to
others it may thus become an adventure: but a
punishment should be the same thing to all persons
and at all times.
Nor

+ This inconvenience
had already become
sensible, before in the
instance of the now
comparatively old-
planted Colonies:
Many, though innocent,
went thither
voluntarily, even at
the price of servitude:
while others under
the notion of punishment
were sent
thither for their
crimes.

Identifier: | JB/149/132/001"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	132	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49986
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