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Police Report
Expence of punishment
N.S. Wales
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official situations present a head of expence
to which at that immense distance where
communication and explanation so tardy and
precarious, a negative can not never be put, nor
at the same time that so tolerably adequate
which can ever be applied to it. Sooner or later Here as
at Sierra Leone, sooner or later, the enemy
misled by the usual illusions, will fancy turn their figure to themselves
eyes to they beheld in this spot an adequate object of destruction
at least, if not of depredation: The certain preliminary expence of
this attempt will as usual
the utmost possible
amount of the damage
endeavoured to be
produced.
apprehensions
well or ill grounded of such
a misfortune may at any time be productive
of extraordinary exertions and extraordinary
expences in the view of guarding
against it. Sooner or later, the example
of America, and so many future & worse examples
will stimulate these unwilling subjects, prepared
or unprepared, to rise against the
yoke: hence fresh disasters, fresh precautions
and fresh expences. The governance unless the
moment it ceases to be military, will cease toit continues military will not be adequate
to the purpose, and while it continues military the colony from
time to time with idle
and enraged republicans seditionists
from Europe Ireland as well as Great Britain
neither pretense nor provocation will
be wanting for rising at upon it in the first
glympse of an a favourable opportunity. In the so short compass
a period as of nine years without any of these extraordinary
demands the expence of the military establishment
is not has been not much less than trebled.
The expence of civil and military together has been much
as much more than doubled.

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Identifier: | JB/150/355/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales; police bill
Folio number	355	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50576
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