[094-315v]

16 Jan y 1803

Expiries

laws not a thought was ever entertained of employing this [...?] as a ground for ever delivering or excluding a single Convict beyond his legal transportation. In the case of this new Colony, under this new transportation system of the lea of expediency has any application, beyond what it had under the prior system, it can not be on any other ground than that of the incompetency of this modern /new-[...?]/ system in comparison of the old one. Under the old one /system/, they are reformed: therefore it was no such sufficient reason had of preventing them from coming back. Under the new system they are worse corrupted than before: thence comes the sufficiency of the reason supposing it [...?] for preventing them from coming back from New South Wales.

/The new system must firs be supposed to be a bad one[?] an inexpedient[?] one in their point of view bad at least in comparison of the old one, for the purpose of proving the expediency of the stretch[?] of power[?] //act of coercion// in question an act of coercion which under the old system were without example./

As to bondage, the keeping them in that state, it being determined that they should be detained there, rested on other grounds and on the ground of expediency, more or less sufficient at any rate more plausible. Some sort of co-ersion - beyond what they would have been /[...?] in general are/ subjected to in England after the [...?] of their terms /Why not subject such persons in England to whatever coercion was deemed[?] employ there?/, could scarcely be deemed to be necessary - necessary to the [...?] and perhaps the very existence of the Colony. From that up to absolute bondage, may exist different degrees of coercion, differing in [...?] instances by shades of difference not easily definable: but admitting that in the instance of any such degree that it was beyond what was necessary [...?] reference to those objects those ends even[?] the plea of trial necessity[?], and the plea even of expediency along with it.

These considerations however it ought [...?] to [...?...?] are rather of a moral nature, and as such not truly[?] [...?] to the object of the personal essay: in a purely legal point of view, all such distinctions are [...?...?] purpose. In each case, the advantage the [...?] the conclusion in point of expediency is - that the Colony so circumstanced ought not either to have been established as [...?]: /authorities at home[?]/ not that the conduct[?] thus rendered necessary by them ought no to have been maintained by the authorities in the Colony. The satisfaction[?] - the excuse - whether it may immoral be applies totally to persons there: not in any degree to presume here. Whether[?] here[?] no[?] [...?] ought a man to be [...?...?] advantage of the [...?].