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VII Escapes According to the account given by Captain Collins in the
same paragraph , at the very time of giving this assurance, the
intention was that it should not be fulfilled . For now it was
that "it was understood" (now for the first time , as already observed)
"that a clause was to be inserted in all future contracts for
"shipping for this country , subjecting the masters to certain
"penalties , on certificates being received of their having brought
"away any Convicts or other persons from the settlement without
"the Governor's permission : and as it was not probable that many
"of them would , on their return , refrain from the vices , or avoid
"the society , of those companions who had been the causes of their
"transportation to this country , not many could hope to obtain the
"sanction of the governor for their return". — A promise was thus
given to all - and this at the very time when it was understood—
understood , not by those who received it , but only by those who
gave it , that "not many" would ever receive the benefit of it . —
No wonder : since in the bosom of the Governor there was this
dilemma for every one: — are you a bad man ? — you would do mischief
elsewhere : are you a good man? — we can't spare you . It
was by this last horn of the syllogism , that Bloodsworth was
hung up — the good Convict mentioned in No..3 . "As his loss
"would be severely felt should he quit it" (the Colony)" while in
hi "its infancy" therefore it was that he received what is
called his freedom — viz: an obligation to work for two years,
having for his recompence the not being starved . —

To say nothing of the perfidy — the wanton useless perfidy —
there is in this business a sort of inconsistency which to me
is most perfectly inexplicable . If guided by his own untutored &
uncorrupted sense of justice , the Governor had set out with this exhilerating

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	294	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d17 f73 / d18 f74
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37827
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