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ought to have been, and those who could not lawfully be detained
there — one piece of information would be necessary, which I have
not been able to find in the Journal of Captain Collins. This
is — whether to the Instructions by which this branch of the
liberty of the subject was thus subject was thus subjected to
the will and pleasure of the local despot, any and what other
instruction (secret it must evidently have been, if any,) was annexed,
tending to give direction or in any other way set limits, to the
exercise of that will and pleasure. If so, what phasis (if one
may so say,) of the will of the despot here at home was turned
towards this branch of liberty in the instance of the Expirees?
whether the Governor was commanded to permitt their departure
from the Colony, or was forbidden to permit it, or received
permission in express words, to forbid it or permit it at his
discretion, or was left in possession of that liberty by silence?
Points, these of entire indifference at this time, to the fate of the
wretches this detained in durance, but of no small movement to
so many lofty personages, who, if the constitution be thought
worth preserving, will have to answer for it here at home. —

So far as the account goes, Your Lordship has seen the
instructions, have here been seen such as they were received in August 1792. I will
now present Your Lordship the reader with the execution and effect of them:
prefacing it with the events of the preceding period of opposite
instruction, or no-instruction, I am unable to say which.—

In July 1799 when "little more than two years had elapsed
"since the departure" of the first expedition "from England several
Collins p.74 "Convicts" alledging that their terms were expired "claimed to be
"restored to the privilege of freemen". Were the allegations true?
This was what could not be ascertained. — To make sure they
were

Identifier: | JB/116/289/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	289	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d7 f63 / d8 f64
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37822
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