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N. S. Wales

would be an altogether premature and useless, as well as at
any time a most thankless office. Even so, my Lord, and
though wishing the cup in any hands rather than in mine,
yet if called upon I would not shrink from it: but first
it must have been made possible for me to believe, that
in the seat of power there is a sense of justice.

One thing, at all events, is the one thing needful: —
that, whatever force be applied there in future, be applied
with full authority from Parliament: with a sufficient declaration,
and due sense expressed, of the illegality of that
which cannot be recalled. At this price only, the yawning
and yet bleeding wound, that has been given to the constitution,
whatever became of national public faith and honour, may
yet be healed. Were it even a determined point, that of the
whole number of wretches remaining there at the time, every the whole number —
man woman and child — should by force be confined there
for life, still let that force be applied by Parliament. Were
even the laws of justice to be thus sacrificed upon the altar
of necessity, and so many thousand British subjects, in
the energetic and expressive language of Lord Coke and Magna
Charta were thus to be "destroy'd" still at this price the
constitution will be preserved. But while the victims of
Necessity are groaning under the stroke, Justice will be
looking to a higher and not scarce less guilty class for hers. —

Identifier: | JB/116/302/001"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	302	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d33 f89 / d34 f90
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37835
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