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25 June 1802 4
N. S. Wales 14

. This defect in itself is something, but in comparison it
is as nothing. For what power has he any than a Convict,
from the instant his legal term of transportation
is at an end. So that The very persons for whom the
Laws of Britain were not strong enough, are sent to
a wild country at the antipodes to be to live without
any laws: to live without any laws, in the if they
please, of a Governor who by his commission in virtue of his hopes with the
and his fears grounded in it is himself most strictly
bound by laws.

Hard enough so much as to conceive in theory
a disorder like this is by much too hard endured conceived
in practice. One of two things: either the these
outcasts of mankind most disorderly of men must be left to do what they please,
or w a that chosen Servant of the British Crown must
be left to order them and every body else to do as
he pleases. The option was not a difficult one. He
carried with him the name of Governor: and this name,
with or without an illegal instruction from the Privy
Council, was to be to him and to every body instead
of an Act of Parliament.

A few lines But a line or two ago we were at Liberty — where
; now already we are in the din of Despotism.
They are on opposite sides of the way: but the distance is not great. Out of the strong cometh forth sweet, said the
strong man when he saw found the in the carcase
of the strong beast.

Identifier: | JB/116/181/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-06-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	181	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37714
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