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might perhaps by competent exertions be set on foot. Oh no! One they
will not have: — that wd be too many — they will have no more than between
3 & 400. Not in the opinion of the inventors alone, for it was with
my Brother that the architectural idea originated, but in the opinion of the
late Pitt, with his most confidential associates in the Ministry & in Parliament
was this proposed establishment in its nature an instrument of indispensable
necessity to any effectually adapted system of penal law Acts
of Parliament more than one were passed for the construction of such an
instrument & placing it in my hands land was even purchased accordingly
& actually placed in my hands where it remained for years: & until
another Act of Parliament was made for taking it out of them. But when
the time came for giving commencement to the Building Geo IIId by refusal
of his signature to a necessary instrument at the end of long
continued series of intrigues & secret influence broke his own faith to
me & made his Ministers & their Parliaments break their's. His enmity
had two causes. Ao 1789 or 90 the part I had taken in preventing him
from plunging the nation into an unprovoked war with Russia. And Ao
1790 the assistance I had endeavoured to give to the French Revolution
by my Draught of a plan for the organization of a Judicial Establishment.
Had the public faith been kept with me long before this I shd
have made a vast & still increasing fortune. The Penal Colony wd not
have been established & millions wd have been saved. But before I
had made a penny, public benefit in all its proposed shapes, cd not but
have been accomplished for by my terms of contract, so I had purposely
ordered it. With this same instrument to work with, Pitt wd have put




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Date_1

1822-05-17

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

012

Main Headings

codification proposal (codification offer)

Folio number

063

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

richard doane

Watermarks

g & r turner

Marginals

Paper Producer

edward wakefield

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

letter 2882, vol. 11

ID Number

4124

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