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7 Aug. 1802 48
N. S. Wales
On the Talk of Returns in J.B.s hand?
When this was written I little imagined that lawless had not been able to bring
myself that to conceive, understand nor indeed scarcely so much as to suspect, that
power it was without the smallest authority or so much as the slightest
pretence or shadow of an authority, from any one Act of Parliament,
that lawless power had had the in this country had soared to such a pitch of audacity as to give positive
orders in for detaining quondame Convicts in New South
Wales, in despite and direct violation of every Act of Parliament & under which
they had been sent thither, the few excepted who were transported
for life..
A statement of the given to the constitution
insult thus offered to the authority of
Parliament, forms the matter of a separate address paper. addressed
also to Your Lordship, and of which the substance More
occupation tofor Parliament: more amazement for your Lordship
should it be regarded looked upon more within notice at your Lordship's command
in the mean time.
Had every thing that was ever surmized of the Cold
Bathfields prison been strictly true, it would have been
but as a drop in the ocean of that guilt of which
the Duke of Portland's "improved Colony" his Bastile improved and magnified has been the scene
and of which not the instruments there, but the men in authority there have been the unconscious and in a moral sense innocent instruments.
[If there be a drop left of English blood in English
veins, it will cry aloud for vengeance.]
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jeremy bentham |
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