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 in Sydney would be so scouted by a British jury, that the chance of punishing the men responsible for the infliction of three months' misery upon two hundred helpless prisoners would be so lightly weighed against the "inconvenience" of setting free thirteen criminals, or that the nightmare voyage of the Chapman would be dismissed quietly as "so unfortunate a transaction".