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1820 Novr 28
J. B. to Rochfoucault
2Then there was the master of the House, who to flatter his guest in
a manner at once more delicate and more impressive
than by words, kept was busy as a bee, cutting open before and after supper
the three first volumes of Dumonts.
"When your Panopticon is up —
[Said you] I
will go to England
to see more and look at it."
This I remember yesterdaygap/> At that time, the expectation was not altogether
.
it has long since vanished. For £27,000 public money
with what
private I could find means to add to it I could get I was to have built a
prison for 1000 prisoners. At this
present time, the purse to whom
the business appertains
expressed his hope other day in the House of Commons
to keep down the expense
of a building in that
same place for that
same number on
his placeit belongs at present here made to mind t'other day ofto make a building for that and building it on be better of £500,000 as low
as £500,000; which in a newspaper that lies before
me a critic has the impertinence to insist that it can
not be
compleated for so little as £750,000. In addition
to the prevention of
abuse by the constant personmischief in every shape by the characteristic form of
construction, my plan included services innumerable
to not one of which does the existing one so much as
portend
to render With you a Bastille or
has for these thirty years been but a name: will
as
that same prison — the fruit of
Lord Sidmouth and the wisdom and humanity of Lord Sidmouth,
has
added existence to it. Without express order from his Lordship's
office or a person under his command not a creature can be admitted. not long ago
a Grand Jury met with a refusal, and complained to me
of it. But the man who
t'other day gave a Priest a
living of
£2500 LIt 2,500 a year for livery
ordered and pardoned the massacre of massacremen women and children by hundreds,
only for meeting to hear
speeches
upon parliamentary reform — you may imagine what he cares for Grand
Juries In this sham
,, since
we began our war
of blood against
your your opinions, howhave
our national expenses been conducted: no wonder that our
wishes endeavours to
capture all Europe are rendered abortive, by the utter inability to screw the rack of taxation any tighter. I---
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