JB/116/160/001

Click Here To Edit

18 June 1802
N. S. Wales 2

My hypothesis is, my Lord, that it had not escaped their
notice. In every thing On every ground that lay in the least degree beyond
the routine of the most beaten practice, every possible degree of ig
helplessness and blindness I am ready to give them
credit for: from the whole tenor of this address Your
Lordship will judge whether in my view estimate of their faculties of the matter
there can be any difficulty on that score. I say for every
possible degree: but such a degree as this, is what I look
upon as not possible.

Such is my explanation: dete Still I give it but as an hypothesis: but as
such it requires some train of reasoning for the support
of it — and that which I have to submit to Your Lordship
is as this follows — — my grounds for it are as follows —

In the whole measure there was not a feature that
men were not ashamed and afraid to hold present up to other
view</d<add>el> in its true colours to the view of Parliament.
The For its ostensible application In the way of estimable utility and use, the Colony
had nothing to produce but the use proposed</add> intended to be made
of it as a place of confinement in relation to Convicts<add>in the character of a receptacle for Convicts</add> and employment for Convicts.
In this character it implied in substance what Your Lordship has seen:
the subversion of the whole system of the criminal law —
a system of oppressive enhancement of punishment repugnant
to the pleasant and most undisputed principles of national
justice: the effect whole system of transportation laws being
changed subverted in effect the better on being suffered to remain
for a blind in order to mask the operation <add>nature</add> that the change that had
been effected by a power stolen from Parliament; might
the more effectually remain concealed from the eye of
Parliament.

a subversion of the laws of Parliament — a measure never submitted
to Parliament — a measure studiously concealed the real nature and operation of whereby from Parliament
because of the laws of Parliament
because subversion of the laws of Parliament as well as repugnant
to the usual principles of national justice, and on both accounts not fit to be spread out
and given in its true
colours before the eye of
Parliament.

Identifier: | JB/116/160/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-06-18	Marginal Summary Numbering	2
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	160	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	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37693
Box Contents