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Letter 3d
those very jails , in which (as his Grace had been informed
but the year before by the official Report
above quoted * * supra p.) the Convicts even without the benefit
of any such "crowding" as he consigns them to , and
for terms longer than the legal terms , are "emaciated
many" of them by "long confinement" and that
to such a degree as to be "unable to work" as well
as "unfit to proceed to Botany Bay" , and on that
account "rejected". —
Such Your Lordship sees) was his Grace's plan:-
He was to "crowd" the "Country Gaols "; crowd them with
Convicts forbidden by Parliament to be put there ; crowd
them till they were crowded to such a degree that the
crowded state of them should have rendered the uncrowding
of them "absolutely necessary": and it is by this alternate
crowding and uncrowding of the existing Gaols , that
somebody else — any bo body else that chose to be put at the
Identifier: | JB/116/624/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116. |
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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624 |
letter 3d |
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001 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
2 |
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recto |
d27 / d28 |
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john herbert koe |
1800 |
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1800 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
38157 |
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