023 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(023.jpg) Recto her bantling too long under a state of strict tutelage it may eventually become [resticae] and break from her apron strings - Is a country possessing more than 60000 free inhabitants [inscribe] for trial by jury, is a country whose exports exceed its imports and whose income exceeds its expenditure unfit for trial by jury - Is a country whose internal resources are developing themselves ever faster than her population is increasing still to be deemed a penal settlement - and to be deprived of trial by jury and a house of assembly - The only feasible reason for withholding the Englishmans birthright is that he has just put himself without the [pack] of society by his crimes, why then are the honest and industrious to suffer for the iniquities of others - Two thirds of the population are free therefore let them have the freeman's birthright and let there be a code for the convict population also. In criminal cases the jury [lately] consisted of seven officers of his majesty's army or navy - men above all others the least adapted for such a duty - Officers are generally men of high and honourable feeling and accustomed habitually to military subordination - but their education and pursuits does not lead them to deep investigation or to that minute attention to keeping events which constitute the an of business - They look with disdain on the culprit who is placed at the bar, and form their judgements more from appearances than from the long and tedious chain of circumstances produced in evidence - besides they are too [ lavish] as a body and then military prejudices too frequently supply the place of judgement. Added to all these, the abhorrence an Englishman entertains of martial law, renders them in the capacity SubjectNSWHunter ValleySettlerNew South Wales historyNSW historyAustralian historyMaitlandNew South WalesAustraliaDatenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2665505215/

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