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28 June 1802 N. S. Wales 4
In taking up the old imperfect systems to amend and
work upon, here would have been an occasion for a
man, with any thing of the mind and spirit of a legislator,
to cure the imperfection which haste and neglect original neglect
had left it in it, and to rouse render its dispensations
more strictly conformable to the line of consistency and justice. Care would have been taken to mark out
the distinction between the two in themselves perfectly
distinct the branches of the transportation punishment — the banishment
and the bondage: and to give in to the Crime express terms, and
with such have taken, if any as should appear for
fitting and convenient such powers as should be thought
fit to be given in regard to each: so that in all cases
the case of the lowest offences as well as that of the highest
the banishment bondage being as if remitted in cases that called
for the remission of it, the banishment might continue.
Work this for a legislator: but where during the whole </add>
reign pompous of the man of eloquence — where look
for any thing were of legislation beyond the time and
attitude of it. for any thing beyond the mask of a legislator?
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