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23 Mar 1802 N. S. Wales 3
It is by forgetting that twenty thousand pounds worth of capital which produces
 its annual profit on being sent as far off as a man can contrive to send it would produce as 
also have produced its profit if it had not been sent quite so far or even if it had not
 had not been — sent out of the country at all but employd 
within t it, that more  Colonies and especially
 distant colonies as a constant source of additional wealth. + +A separate paragraph [instead 
of considering them as a useful drain for population 
useful only in the case above as just now the prospect 
opens of that within no great distance of home will have become a population no longer capable of
 finding subsistence within the limits of the land.] It is
 this that Bryan Edwards of the insisting upon it
 that capital employd in the West Indies does not giv yield 
above of 10 per Cent consider the West Indies as a 
possessions as a source of augmented wealth, which the 
same capital if employd in England in hand manufacturers
would have produces 15 per Cent, to the Capitalist also or if in land, [20 per Cent], [+] [+] I Don't know how much more though divisible in the latter case will between the capitalist
 and the proprietor of the land.
It is by forgetting that the same thing can not
 be in two places at once the same time that men consider the 
opening of new ports as an addition a chance to the sum of 
trade. Catholics have arguments in favour of transubstantiation
 have arguments which politicians possessbeyond what <add>any that politicians</add> 
 not in favour can produce, in favour of justification
 of that blind and idiot rapacity which draws them
 into wars for the sake of increase of Colonies trade. increase of colonies
In the error, if it be more, which for the actual
 expence of freight to the account of profit said
 among those sources of loss dead expence and loss called Colonies prefer those
 which are farthest off and produce least, selling [+] [+]neither to the inhabitants of the Mother Country, nor to any body else  the worthy 
magistrate has for his fellow sharers and masters guides 
not to mention they depend for the Pitts, the , the Sings, the Kings, and the 
 Sydneys, the the 
 Portlands of the age: but in the world scale 
of , if those were , he and they  would
 his place <add>station would be at the top while theirs & </add> 
| Identifier: | JB/116/414/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116. | |||
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| 1802-03-23 | not numbered | ||
| 116 | panopticon versus new south wales | ||
| 414 | n. s. wales | ||
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| text sheet | 1 | ||
| recto | e3 | ||
| jeremy bentham | |||
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