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14 July 1802

N.S Wales Conduct

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This ought to
be inquired into

Neither in this nor any other excuse can it ever have been any wish
of mine to sacrifice them. No man can be I beg leave to assure Your Lordship was ever further
than I do not wish to am from any such wish, as that sacrificing means to ends to
/human life to phrases. Far from expelling I do not so much as wish that
I would not have had the Governor starve himself and
all were subjects for want of martial law.

I should not have so much
as wished to see on the part
of the Governor any such
act of heroism, as that of
starving himself and
subjects rather than purchase
the means of safety at the expence of
martial law.

What I should be curious to know, and what Parliament
will be curious to know, and will know; if
it has any the least sparkle of regard for English the British
liberties constitution is whether Ministers sitting here at their with their
bellies full/with saturated stomachs and in the lap of luxury,+ dared to give send out to their give a Governor
authority to send out to a Governor of New South Wales, a warrant in any shape
for declaring Martial law, by their own
illegal authority, instead of coming applying for authority for it to
Parliament.

+ drunk or sober
in or out of their
had ever in the case of scarcity
or any other case.

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But without inquiring
it is known that
they never applied
for an indemnity
for it to Parliament.

One thing we know without inquiry, and that is
that they have suffered the wound thus given to the constitution to remain
festering untreated by any indemnity from Parliament.
To this Martial law therefore stands triumphant in New South Wales
The act therefore remains unnoticed with
one of the appendages of the British injurer in a community composed
of Britons! The act remains perhaps never yet unrivalled—at any rate unnoticed: with
necessity to make it justify it in point of morality, and
precedent to establish it in point of law. This contempt
of the constitution, if it had not a precedent warrant
from them, has at any rate received a negative—what is tantamount
to it a virtual one.

Identifier: | JB/116/205/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-07-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	3-4
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	205	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37738
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