25 June 1802 N. S. Wales

time. This defect in itself is something, but in comparison it

is as nothing. For what power has he any than a Convict, from the

instant his legal term of transportation is at an end. So that

The very persons for whom the Laws of Britain were not strong enough, are

sent to a wild country in the antipodes to be turned loose to

live without any laws: to live without any laws, in the face if

they please, of a Governor who by his commission in virtue of

his hopes with the

and fears grounded in it is himself most strictly

bound by laws.

Hard enough so much as to conceive in theory a disorder like this is by much

too hard endured

in practice. One of two things: either the

these

outcasts of mankind most disorderly of men must be left to do

what they please, or a that chosen Servant of the

British Crown must be left to order them and every body else to do as

he pleases. The option was not a difficult one. He carried with him

the name of Governor: and this name, with or

without an illegal instruction from the Privy Council, was to be to him and

to every body instead of an Act of Parliament.

A few lines But a line or two ago we were at Liberty —

where Anarchy Hall; now already we are in the din of Despotism. They

are on opposite sides of the way: but the distance is not great. Out of the

strong cometh forth sweet, said the strong man when he

found the honey in the carcase of the strong beast. Out

of that state of things which is revolting to the sense of every real lover

of the British constitution, came forth the looked for treasure

dainty which was sweet to the sense of M r Pitt, the then

youthful Minister.

Your Lordship will see ere long what it was

recommended rendered it to his palate.

which relishing [a] that made it to his taste.