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16 Nov 1802
Letter 3d
(2

5. Ask why among a supposed thinking people,it is
made a matter a task imposed upon of merit duty to humanity to be at perpetual
variance war with justice and common sense?

6. Ask why Lord North an the oracle of this successes
in all other topics has experienced nothing from them but disdain
from them but neglect when he has admonished them + + not to decide causes on grounds that have no connection with the merits not to set absolve free the guilty on pretenses
that afford no indication of innocence.

7. Ask why a nation that in so many other points grounds is the
object of admiration and envy — is on this ground the
object at once of scorn and compassion — of scorn to its ill customs enemies
of pity to its friends.

8. Ask why this country of so much vaunted supposed constitution good government
with its so merits and surely not altogether unjustly
vaunted constitution lives for aps been exhibits the
the spectacle of an impression in — a commonwealth
of malefactors always subsisting and asking under
the uses of government under the protection of the law
and in spite of it?

9. Ask why it is made a matter of praise and apprised
merit on the part of the servants of the Crown to
act in habitual opposition of to the declared sense of the
legislators? why punishment is a perpetual talking and why the fate of a convict delinquent <add>convicts</add> is a talking
depends not upon the publication visible tenor of the law, but upon the inscrutable will of some this or that clerk in a sorting of Notes in a private Attorneys office.

10. Ask why the a deluded nation sits contented amidst
this chaos, tranquil and self-satisfied amidst usurping
ministers perjured Jurymen, honestly disobedient perverting
Judges and continually regularly violated laws?



Identifier: | JB/116/044/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.

Date_1

1802-11-16

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

044

Info in main headings field

letter 3d

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d2 / f89

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

37577

Box Contents

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