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Small Island which contains an enormous
amount of wealth - and inducements
for plunder
surrounded
by
a dense,
Multitude of at least 60 Chinese
fluctuating population in a
proportion to one
European, and all placed within
reasonable expectation of
booty, and to debar others from
making a profit except by Industrial pursuits.
seemed to me the most imperative duty of the Executive here. All discussions of penal
discipline, and the comparative merits
of Cranks treadmills etc.
however interesting as affecting the
Colony on the shore of
a vast Empire
between which and this Colony there
cannot be a less interchange of population
by arrivals and departures than 1500
per day.
9.
The primary object therefore of
Regulations of an English Gaol in a well
ordered County at home seem wholly
out of place here - where every thing relating
to crime is of an exceptional character
to other possession
of the British Crown.
16.
The Criminal population does
not consist of our own County men with all the claims, which the latter have
on criminal jurisprudence
as I thought, be obviously self preservation and protection. To root Criminals out
from midah and cast them back
on their own shores there to look for sustenance