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28 June 1802 (E2) N. S. Wales
Covered from head to foot as the whole system is with
the marks of incapacity and ignorance, it is not
in the power of Mr Pitt upon the present occasion
to take refuge in any such plea. than any more than in any other subterfuge Howsoever it might
have been in 1786 and 1787, in 1794 at least the
difference between trust management and interested management,
[+] were not altogether untenen nor the performer
due to the latter upon every ground of solid reason, were altogether
unperceived by Mr Pitt. So great strong and so
substantial was the difference understood to be nor pretended
to be understood to be, that it was understood
or pretended to be understood that a law founding a
system of management (in the case in question the management
of Convicts in a Penitentiary establishment here
at home) on the one principle could not without a
virtual violation of the respect due to the authority of
Parliament be made use of and applied to a system
of management for the same establishment grounded in the
other principle. When I took Under the original Act, the Act of 1779 the Penitentiary system
Lord Spencer (whose ground had been thus valued and by a
Lord Spencer came out on and from this have the law that was binding upon other men was no longer binding upon Lord Spencer
stood upon the principle of purely uninterested trust — management
The management The system thus grounded had received
the sanction of Parliament, and, under that sanction, land,
as to every thing but actual payment of the money had
been purchased for it. When I came forward with my that offer
which after years taken for consideration was accepted
Give me that land (said I) and I will do the business
so much cheaper and better as my plan shows. This you have may
First to be done was, to save <add>further loss of time. This you have power to do at any time: at least to take possession of the land. [+][+] at least with the concurrence of the manager appointed under the former system, a concurrence which I have reason to expect will not be issued:
If, for the purpose of comple giving a compleat sanction to
the business you look upon it as necessary to apply to
Parliament, this necessity, one need be no obstacle. If (what
is
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