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True Bastille

8 Jany 1803

Preface

was so ready upon every occasion to boil over and take
fire seems extinct and gone: the part has
corrupted and been dissolved in Toryism: the small remainder
has turned sower and gives zest impulse to the projects
of Republicans and Levellers.

But though the connection between inexpediency
and illegality is not a necessary one, neither is it
one immaterial much less an impassable improbable one. I
speak upon a general view: and in the particular
case instance in question an example I am inclined to think
would be found, The illegality of the measure had
its impotency for the its cause the impotency of the measure.
Powers necessary to government were not
obtained from Parliament—why? because it was not
thought prudent to trust Parliament with the whole
of the information without which the requisite stock
of powers could not regularly—could not according to conveniently
with established forms and current notions be obtained.

The evil disease of illegality be it ever so extensive raging—be it ever so
may be cured by a single touch of the sceptre—may
be cured at any time at once by Parliament. Unquestionably:
but of the above surmise suspicion be true—or even
though it were otherwise—the it is for the reader—it
is for Parliament to judge—whether without some retrospect
Parliament ought to apply the cure; the cure ought to be applied whether
the an indemnity from punishment might to be granted without some
passed upon notice taken of the delinquency—the long and diversified
course of delinquency by which under that dispensation of existing law that punishment
has been incurred.

Identifier: | JB/116/344/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1803-01-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	344	Info in main headings field	true bastile
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3 / f3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37877
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