JB/116/416/001

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Dispensing power

21 Apr. 1802

II. Criminality
( ) continued
The 2150, on that
&c.

and would thus have been employ'd to rob the Panopticon
even of this microscopic and contingent pittance.
2. Even this number, in what way soever to be of it whatever might be the plan of transportation
for it was the result of a manifest dispos inclination to
reduce it to the lowest pitch that the documents would admitt of.
3. The 2000 granted by the letter letter of
1800, had nothing to do with this 2150, but was the fruit
of so many months subsequent torture applied torment, given to the confederacy
by Mr Nepean: nor+ and when it was granted, being the
double of the number they stood bound to grant, was
granted (as your Lordship has seen) for the purpose
of doubling the expence of the building, and thus extracting
the pretence for "relinquishment", out of the " encrease
of terms" which on this account for this purpose was charged upon me.

+ would it then have been
granted, but for the
happy thought, of
charging me with
the consequent
encrease of the expence,
in comparison of that
of the single thousand,
and thus extracting
a pretence for reducing
the thousand
to none at all.

4. In case of a doubt, about intentions If there remained a doubt, as to concerning the intentions
of the letter as to this point, actions subsequent conduct would be to be called
in resorted to as a clew: and, by this criterion,
the number really intended for the Panopticon, was—not
the 2150, but the at the end of it.

Not being at the time in possession of this clew,
nor able for want of it to find my way clearly
through such a mass of obscurity and confusion,
finding seeing at the same time in the number 2150 the only part of the
letter which to me was clear and adapted suitable to any
purpose, or any other which at that time I could
comprehend, thence came my proposal for retaining
so much only as concern appeared to give this
number—rejecting so much the remainder of what
concerned the transportable Convicts, as so much unintelligible
surplusage.

Identifier: | JB/116/416/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-04-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	( ) continued
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	416	Info in main headings field	dispensing power
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	37949
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