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15 July 1802
N. S. Wales
3?

It was at a time on an occasion still fresh in every body's memory
that It was but t'other day Mr Pitt then state Minister
that an enquiry was instituted by commission from
his Majesty at the instance on an address of the House of Commons
into certain oppressions alledged to have been committed
in the House of Correction in Cold Bath Fields. It was
on as Mr Pitts own motive instance that the commission was granted
— why? because he flattered himself that had
no personal interest either of ambition of accommodation or of indolence
in the support of any abuses there — and from the complexion
of the charge his hope was that the abuses accusations in
it would be found either false or exaggerated. The opportunity
was too good a one to be neglected. a cloak of reputation
was to be purchased on the reputation of a regard
reputation for humanity and justice to be bought cheap: expence to
the public under two hundred pounds: expence in the
view of public men — the Commissioners — not worth reckoning.

At this very time, oppression in all of its possible shapes
pla designed planted, rooted, nursed up, supported for twelve
years together by Mr Pitt was carrying on, upon a scale a at least by <add>several hundred</add> thousand
fold times more extensive as great again than any thing that had been so
much as suspected in Cold Bath Fields. I, at my
humble distance solliciting the enquiry — he by the
form of secret intimidation by means resisting it not to be resisted
over-ruling it shifting it — [by despotic power
by with all the powers of mysterious, hovering, domineering despotism.]

Enquiry, did I say? the word might lead to error
(unless it was explained]. It was [+] [+] not that may, a Committee should be not the enquiry formed — that questions into that not any thing should be put to any body or any thing else but that should give the convey the most give the most distant hint of the any thing wrong on the remotest possibility of part of Ministers. — what examination — but a was gained as was nothing more than to obtain from them a simple renewal of that claim of communications intelligence which had been the renewal of had been so distinctly after having been so long spoken and as such grounds peremptorily called for by the Committee of Finance.
Are Is the Orator's regard to justice and humanity any thing better
than imposture? Let him move for the correspondence of with New
South Wales, and a Committee to report upon it.

Identifier: | JB/116/206/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-07-15	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	206	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] 1800]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37739
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