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1 July 1802 18 1 38
N. W. Wales
Having submitted to Your Lordship this view of
the natural consequences of Mr Pitts and Mr Rose's way
of doing business, I come t now to speak more distinctly
of the probably causes of the choice thus made of it.
At a prodigious expence, Convicts were sent out by
thousands, his Majesty's troops by hundreds, besides Civil
Officers — under the highest probability of perishing every
man of them either by intestine war or by famine. By
famine a part did perish accordingly: by intestine war, happily f not any: one:
because under the auspices of necessity, [+] [+] and the protection of military force, despotism was employed to fill up the deficiencies of law. illegal power took the
place of legal. The defenceless state of the both subject part of the
community, joined to the forcible state of the governing
part —(the military) — proved did indeed in the event, prove a security against
total destruction: in the event: but
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