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VII Expenses — The French tyrants if they had no justification had at least
self preservation for an excuse. The Englishman, who I suppose
is not to be called a tyrant — the Englishman, then, and
his accomplices, in what subterfuge will they find so much
as the shadow of an excuse?

The French nation, and the whole civilized world in
sympathy with it, cried shame upon the monster with five
heads! What will it now say of the single head, that organized
this tenfold tyranny? —

Such is the crime a sample at least of the crimes —
of William Pitt. His successors, not daring to be innocent
where he is guilty, choose rather to be accomplices than
avengers, or so much as disapprovers of his misdeeds. ? And
this conspiracy of present power with ill-earned influence for
the distruction of law and justice — this audacity — the offspring
of pusillammity covers itself with the mask of respect and
gratitude. —

But would you then have had these living nuisances
turned loose again to prey upon the community — upon a
community from which they had so justly and so necessarily
been expelled? — Corrupted, as you yourself alledge — corrupted
as they have been by the very discipline which should
have reformed them — would you have the Country receive
a second time all poison into her bosom? — After all
this outcry about illegality, and perfidy and oppression - is
thenis then after all the real aim and practical conclusion
at the bottom of it? —

My Lord the difficulty cannot stand more fully
expressed in any eye than it does in mine. To mine, it is indeed

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	300	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d29 f85 / d30 f86
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37833
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