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1820 Nov. 6
J.B. to Mora

NB. Q.S.P. to For function have Madrid
I continue the Letter 10: in continuation of Letter 9,
account I had begun in my last to be given of my Brother.

In the same proportion as his services encreased the talent of them
both above and below encreased: and being no Naval works being avowedly
as "radical" a reference as I at his his elder brother in Legislation, you will not
wonder at it. The ill treatment he met with would every now
and then throw him into a fit of stress that was every now
and then threatening to be fatal to him: When my Panopticon
Proposal came before the celebrated Finance Committee of 1797
and 1798 – Abbot, afterwards Speaker, now Lord Colchester
Chairman – after some of the most notorious
historical examples of barbarity added in the Committee "All this were kindness in comparison
"of the treatment experienced by that man" meaning me:
But the treatment experienced by me was itself kindness in comparison
of that experienced by my Brother. Such a temperament I
never met with. In sympathy, though not destitute of it, he
does not abound as some do: but as to antipathy, it is an assertion of
which he seems altogether destitute:⊞ ⊞ in veracity, sincerity and
incorruptibility, he has
very few equals, and
can not possibly have
a superior. His appointment to a seat
on the Navy Board was though his salary as encreased had
for its object the divesting him of the is power – of that power which he had employed
as above: for at the Board his vote was but one, and
all the others were on every occasion against it of course.
They were ashamed and afraid to tender him out altogether: that being a thing without example.
Still he was so troublesome, that for the mere purpose of getting

rid of him he was sent to Russia on a fool's errand
under the notion of buying timber. When there, where
his merits was were so well known by diversified experience, Admiral
Tchichagoff, then at the head of the Admiralty now resident in Paris, engaged him
to set up a Panopticon not as a receptacle for prisoners,
but in the character of a School of Arts, or rather of handicraft manufactures. It was not quite
finished when he was recalled. The time of his stay being
precarious he durst not build it of brick: he built it therefore of wood
that being done in less time: and, not many years ago, falling
into inept hands, it was consumed destroyed by an accidental
fire. For this service, so long as it continued, he had⊞ ⊞ I forget how many times as much as than more than twice
the salary of the Minister who procured it for him, with the addition of one
third of the expected
profits. The Admiral
has since became an
intimate of mine. I believe his new residence is now in Paris.

Identifier: | JB/013/086/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-11-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	086	Info in main headings field	jb to mora
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections	john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	draft of letter 2714, vol. 10	ID Number	4535
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