22 Jan y 1803 (7

Penal clauses says a rule of law shall be construed strictly.

clauses says another rule of law shall be construed liberally. Penal

clauses shall be construed strictly: yes: but

when a remedy is bound up

with the penalty in them not in such sort of strictness as to

destroy the remedy. What may happen — what in abundance of

cases does happen, is — that a remedy is

provided in by an a set of words, a penalty

by

another: the remedy and the penalty so distinct, that the remedy

— a remedy of some sort of or other may stand, although the

penalty fall to the ground. But in the present instance, for all persons

coming and in these ample description here in question

— for the hundreds and thousands actually included in it in the

individual case in hand — there is no remedy whatsoever but

which (so at least it seems much to be feared) but what is bound

up with the penalties, and with them must stand or fall.

The Writ of Habeas Corpus,

the priority remedial operation employed and purchased

by this , would in point of law run in New South Wales? Would

Lord Alvanley

Ellenboroug

Lord Ellenborough would Lord Alvanley think it

obligatory upon them, or

upon the whole of this case, , allowable, to

open a writ of this sort, directed to the Governors of New South

Wales, to bring into the Court of Kings Bench or the Court of Common pleas

the bodies of the several thousands of

inhabitants thus circumstanced? The affirmative is an answer which

to my humble conception they would praise at least ere they gave

and so long as they praised, so long spok of this supposed

supremely remedial Act would the grievance,

this palpable and crying grievance, be without

remedy other than that, such as it is, which is bound up on the

texture of the penal phrases of it.

Yes