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Sketch of Defensive Operations.

1. Get the facts of some of the more glaring acts of injustice & oppression towards private Individuals & officers of Government, of some of the principal of these take the following-

Case of Sudds
Get the proceedings from the Commencement of the to
the sentence from the Sydney Police.
Sydney Gazette containing the Govt. order upon the subject.
Particulars from the Individuals who saw the exhibition
Statement of what took place in the Gaol from Sudds’
return until his death.
Mitchell and McIntyre dissected Sudds, and McIntyre reported upon
examination that he died of inanition – that[original text has been crossed out] the brain,
intestines, and all the organs more immediately con–
nected with life, being in a sound and healthy state,
and there being no then apparent cause for dissolution.
Toole the Gaoler will state that he sickened and died in
consequence of his disgrace and the iron round his neck
acting upon a weak and debilitated frame, prevented his
taking natural rest.

Case of Thomson
This man’s sentence was simple exile for petty larceny.
He also was exhibited in manner resembling being put
in the pillory, & afterwards worked in chains with
an iron collar round his neck upon the high road–
leading to Bathurst, near Emu Plains, until becoming