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Will you promise make a promise to the Penitentiary
System that if on calling upon putting the question
to those on whom it the business depends calling
upon to shew cause why it is not established
no cause is shewn nothing besides than what you have seen you will then give me
Your judgment in my favour assistance. A promise this conditional
is what I would not give sixpence to exchange
would be worth quite as much to me
for as an unconditional one. You wish to
hear the other side—good: but do the other
side wish to hear you, or any man whose
wish it is to see justice done?—no: that they
don't. The fact is you have heard the
other side: for the four grounds of relinquishment
stated in Letter I are all that ever any
body has ever been able to say on the other side
Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor
from first to last been the exact history of the
business. To Mr Wilberforce, to Sir Charles
Bunbury to I know not who besides, Ld Pelham
has

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from the first to the last professing or at least
insinuating his approbation of the Penitentiary System
his disapprobation of the New South Wales system.
By this means he save himself the trouble of finding
what was not to be found—something to say against
it. At the same time he was expressing his
disapprobation of the New South Wales system: another
trouble saved—that of finding what was not
to be found something to say in favour of it.
Ask your friend MR Addington, you will find
the subject unpleasant to hear: he will stave it
off with some general answer, or tell you he
has turned it over to Mr Vansittart. Ask Mr
Vansittart you will find the subject equally unpleasant
to him. By Sir Even From Mr Nepean, I
was informed that About 4 months ago, Mr
Addington not knowing how

Identifier: | JB/116/398/008 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	398b "b" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 398.	Info in main headings field
Image	008	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	t w 1800
Marginals		Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	see note 2 to letter 1774, vol. 7	ID Number	38186039
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