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13 June 1802 39
N. S. Wales
One A case there is as (I have just been observing) in
which the intervention of a private Contractor is not necessary.
This is where a Convict having been convicted
of an
offence of the offence being an
filing — an offence punished with death
the Convict has received "a conditional pardon" on condition of transportation
for "any number of years" or "for .. life". In this
case a case is supposed by a special exception, power
is reserved or granted to his Majesty to "authorize" the Convict the to
perform the operation of transportation be his own transporter upon himself.
By this clause does a good deal more is done than is
said by it. What it professes is to give All it speaks of is giving is a transient momentary
accommodation: wh but in addition to this it gives
without speaking of it, as if it were a thing not worth
speaking of, perpetual freedom in the room of equally
perpetual bondage.
The reason final cause of this distinction is not difficult to
conceive. In Among charggable felonies it seldom happens that
the offences any offences are included by but offences of low bred indigence: if
the offence of a man an uneducated man, who was
or ought to have been a working man, gaining his habituated to livelyhood by common labour: to a man of this class
forced labour will is not apt to present itself as an inapposite punishment. But unclergyable
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jeremy bentham |
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