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Queen Square Place Westminster 28 th Mar. 1801.

Sir
With the privity of Mr. Nepean, I consult, by this private address,
the peace and honor of your office.

It is to you , Sir, and to the return of those virtues which, as far as my
experience goes, have so long been strangers to it, that I am indebted for a late
Letter, though perhaps without your knowing it. I say to you Sir; for though (as I
learnt by the merest accident) it is some six or seven months, since it was settled,
that a letter to some such effect should eventually be written, the communication
of it to me was too great a favor, and would have been so to the day of my death,
if seven years experience can afford any ground for inference.

What I have now to pray, Sir, is — the liberty of leaving that letter unanswered,
till the retreat of those, against whom, were I to answer it, I could no
otherwise avoid standing forth, in the character of an accuser, that by the abandonement
of reputation -property- every claim, and every hope, I have been pursuing
for more than ten years, out of the three and fifty I have lived.

Meantime, by your seeing Mr Nepean upon the subject at your leisure, the
substance of the case might be learnt at any time in a few words, from the only
unbiassed person who is able (not to speak of willingness) to give any correct account of it.

By one honest hour of his time the business was brought one evening in
August 1793, to a point, to which it has not in all this time been suffered to be
dragged up again - by all my solicitacions, backed as they have been by his representations,
in other hands.

Ask him, Sir, whether the business has any real difficulties: -whether it has
ever had any, that have not been made - by design - negligence - incapacity - or a mixture
of all three.

Ask him, Sir, by what private influences, one after another, the public faith has
thus been kept in a state of continually-repeated violation, for above these seven years,
ask

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Identifier: | JB/116/391/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1801-03-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	391	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer	frances wright
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public	copies of letters 1619 and 1630, vol. 6	ID Number	37924
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