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Of this so much agitated this so universally appr commended approved <add>accepted
principle — approved accepted at least in its application to
the conveyance of men in their unhappy circumstances the subjects of that trade what
use, what application was made in the adjustment of the
Contracts for the conveyance of British subjects to
New South Wales? The contracts themselves, the contracts alone, were
they for this purpose to be called for by Parliament, would
serve to shew. It would then be seen — supposing any difference the deficiency if any
in the degree point of case, to be the result not of financial design
but of honest negligence - it would then be seen, whether
the d difference between a white skin and a black one
were, or were not, an interval too wide for such powers of abstraction
as the Treasury at that time afforded, to stretch
their rations to measure and .
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The loss spoken of by Bryan Edwards a loss
at its maximum short of 20 per Cent bt sea and
land together is spoken of by him - certainly not
without cause - as "a destruction of the human species on
"which it is impossible to reflect without horror:" Edwards II. p.125. What
would he have said, (had it fallen within his observation)
of a loss, to more than that amount sea and land together sea and land together, to an amount still greater?
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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panopt. v. n. s. wales |
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jeremy bentham |
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