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24 Mar 1802 N.S. Wales 5. Economy
5. Mala fides They put the argument
from delay before it
it was but a
counter-weight.

heard and heard much about at the same time from various quarters of their the vapourings
about their new the flourishing Colony— of the made cold water
of it against drawn from it to throw upon the Penitentiary establishment—and of
the frowns with which the idea of laying open
the real state of this Utopia was received.

The Expenditure is
disguised—they know
how to disguise
expenditure.

Various persons possessing weight in Parliament who thought well of the Penitentiary
plan and in whom who had they even thought but indifferently ill
of it would not the idea of a a violation of the public faith
would not have sat quiet so easy as upon the Duke
of Portland and Mr Pitt, were deterred by different
considerations from saying touching upon this sore place before the
House a topic which to a degree while it was
not difficult to would have been intolerable
to the Minister. In one instance I have no
scruple in mentioning the consideration which put
a seal upon their lips. That same temper of
spirit and desperation which had secured to rendered gentlemen
given the Parliamentary System the good esteem and opinion of
these gentlemen had given the same advantage
as was natural enough to other measures of a somewhat similar in their object caste
but of still superior importance. Had these friends
of the Penitentiary system ventured a word that uncovered stood up and exposed
the nakedness of the New South Wales system, Mr
Pitt and Mr Rose, to punish them for putt expressing bringing
to light that bad measure, would have put to
death the good one. Such was the opinion[+] which way wherever I turned my eyes I found
entertained of the two Mr Pitt and Mr Rose by gentlemen
of them whose opportunity of acquaintance with them was most intimate,
and whose acquaintance was most favourable: by gentlemen
acting and speaking in all occasions as their friends
the proclamation of his merits in Parliament—the subscribers
to his statute—celebrators of the day which give such virtue
to the world. Such being the picture Mr Pitt in the conception opinion of his foremost
friends what must more
can be added to it
by his enemies?

I mention this with without the
less reserve because in doing
so I violate no confidence.
It was discovered by me,
not communicated to me. Discovered
by putting circumstances
in themselves notorious.
It was demonstrated to me, by
proof, much less
than verbal .

In proportion to
the
of their public virtue
was the abjection /
of their dependence
upon Mr Pitt and
even upon Mr Rose.

Tho' confidence taken by them,
J.B. found it not.

Identifier: | JB/116/265/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-03-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	265	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37798
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