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the last day of his service had been spent; in the next
place for the faculty of obtaining a passage on board
of such ship or any other ship; in the last place for the
arrival of such ship at a British fort.

Under the new system the delay resulting from
the two first of these three causes would receive an unavoidable
augmentation — in its average amount very
considerable, but owing to from the number of causes of
it is encompassed with, altogether incapable of being
defraid. of the effect of the last of these causes —
the length of the voyage — the amount is not altogether
insusceptible of liquidation. Call the length of an it
a voyage from America six weeks a large high computation
call the length of a Voyage from New South
Wales six months a low computation — time then
is) 4-1/2 months added to the duration of the exile, by
this one of the single power of the three causes.

Over and above the illegal extraneous additions
made, in the mor to the previous duration of the punishment in violation of
the Habeas Corpus Act, in the stated already in the
text, here there was an addition had been made slowly a less manifest but not less real made by the mere
very act of power by which the new system of
transportation was substituted to the old.

This enhancement, having been made at once from the
commencement of it by virtue of an Act of Parliament
by which the spot in New South Wales was appointed
for the scene of the new system, could never not therefore
be at any time be stated as contrary to law. It was
however from the very first, in the first instance contrary to natural justice,
viz:

Identifier: | JB/116/284/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1803-02-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	4
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	284	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	note continued
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37817
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