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Sept. 14
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Letter 2
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-bourne, (whose son is was assured Chancellor of the Exchequer, is now Marquis of Lansdowne, and who,
having been in the days of the his youth a personal favorite
of George the third, and in the years 1782 and 1783 had
been Prime Minister) assured me assured me at the time I had on that occasion
the King for my antagonist:[+]
[+]1 (it has since appeared
that his Majesty now and then
used to try his hand hand
at a letter in a
periodical, of course
under a feigned signature.)
thereupon comes came a reply, in which
the stream of contempt and indignation was still fiercer than
before. I sent a copy of the two printed Letters to Mr Pitt
with a private letter to himself. Lord Melbourne, who was then in
opposition, and who though I was in with him, knew [+]2
[+]2 not, till the first of
these Anti Ministerials
was published, that
I had written it,
but had guessed at the
author and received
my confession, was
in extasies with both
of them, and made the
most of them:
— the was given up —
Minister Pitt, who was coldness and haughtiness itself — whom I did not like, and in company with whom,
a little before he came into office, I had passed some days with at
a Country mansion of Lord Shelburne's Country , could of course especially after the above letters, have no
personal kindness for me. But he had a magnanimity,
with which the little mindedness little mindedness of his Royal master made a striking striking
contrast, and he shewed, on more occasions than occasions than one, he
shewed the desire he had of giving the public country the benefit of some of the
services, which, in his estimation estimation I was was capable of rendering
to it. Not content with putting all the convict Prisoners, in
the country England into my hands, at one time he was about
to put all the poor, in the co of England into my hands.
Intimation of this was This disposition had for its ground ground, the
Panopticon book, to which you, Sir, have under your Paper, Sir, has have lately under honoured with so favourable
a mention
your paper, and a system plan of Management for the Poor,
which, in the year 1802, was translated into French
by order of the Constituted authorities of Paris, as M. —
I forget his name (Quenoy I believe — it began with a Q.) told me at the time I
being then at Paris: By he, Maire of one of the 12 Arrondissements, and the person under whose direction
it had been done.
writing to Paris any body in
Spain, who thought it worth while, might of course procure
that French translation. I therefore forbear sending a copy in English, there being
but one or two left. Mr. Pitts disposition on this subject had been
notified to me by his right hand man (Secretary of the Treasury) Mr. Rose. I was
to have dined
We were to have had
a dinner on the subject,
at Mr Rose's, Mr Pitt, Mr Rose, and I in a few days. But
the day never came.
There could be no doubt
who it was that prevented
it. When a paper necessary
to the progress of the Panopticon Penitentiary scheme was presented to him for signature, he refused, and never could be prevailed upon to give it. This was after he
had passed an Act of Parliament which had no other object. But my name had been kept out of the Act.
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