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1) Panopt
To Ld Pelham 19 Decr 1801
1
From the first
backsliding to the
last I have
never I must
confess been
studious to conceal
therein a
sense that
superiority which
belongs to the
injured in his
dealings with address to
the of the
injury which those who
suffer by
fail more than
who printed it.
2. My business is
would the The first Lord
and the two
are the
gentlemen more for use to
the rule of their
Lordships, I
make my bar.
I have always
found them very
proper, good-looking,
good-humoured
gentlemen. Mr
or Mr himself
more made .
Sometimes one
sometimes another
I he acts have every
man then led
me into familiar
chat with them.
I never was guilty
of any such intercourse as that
of of supporting any one of them to anything about the matter: if
in civility he wished to know anything about it, his way was to ask me.
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3
I hope it is
only through
want of time
and not from
a determination
on the part of the one
Speakers to hear only
the one side, that
the reputation
of a blameless
and even unblamed
individual
should
have been supposed to be that
being wounded injured
by calumny, after
his fortune
has been wrested
by a four years
course of perfidy.
4
But first I have
my account to
settle with the
Treasury past
and present Treasury.
I have its
picture to paint
with the one pen
and in its own
colours. I owe
it to posterity.
Opportunities such
as I have had
do not all to the
lot of everybody.
A Board is a
scrum yet not
so thick an one
such as , but
that more and
more the light
may be made to
will shine through
it. Next to the
establishing the Penitentiary
House
the
4. continued
the best service
I can render the
public is the
showing by what
means and instruments
the establishment
it has been
prevented frustrated, and
evaded.
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5
... that the law
which all men
are taught to
look up as a
safeguard, has
to me been no
better than an
instrument of
deceipt.
6
I have been thrust
out of society
7
Without ever
pretending to spare
the conduct of the
Minister as exemplified
in my own case, I have
never attempted
to throw
myself in into the arms
of party.
8
Neither the boasted
humanity urbanity of Mr
Addington nor
that of either of
his subordinates
has ever attended vouched for
to me the smallest not greatest
mark of sympathy: my only
hopes are in their
fears. The whisper
of my oppressors
have been thus oracles:
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9
.. at the time
of life to which
I have been led
by as
time in every
day rising in
its value –
all other things
are every day
theirs
10
..... Hercules
knew no principle
of action
but that
from which
a man in his
situation has it
not in his power
to .
11 Addington
It may seem to
Mr Addington
may think that
by doing nothing
he escapes the reproach
of doing
it. He will not
find it so.
Accepting his situation
he takes
it subject to the
encumbrances charged
stacked on it by
his predecessors.
Whatever part
he acts he acts
after full notice.
Their bankrupting
or his Bankruptcy: their
injustice, his
injustice: their
perfidy, his perfidy
their mendacity calumny
his mendacity calumny,
when proof
is offered him to
the contrary, and
he will not have
it.
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Addington
11 continued
Fit only to want
of time: but
even in that case
time I should
have thought
might have
been found for
saying there was
a want of time
and for giving
that satisfaction
to a mind sore
with the irritation
of more anxious
years which
would have been
given by an assurance
that there would be a
time when its
claims and
complaints would
find an
to them.
The cause of
it (the delay)
is I hope, to
be looked for, only
in a want of time
and not in any
determination
to sh turn a
deaf ear to evidence,
to listen only to
one side.
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Upbraiding me with
blind obstinacy for
not seeing Your Lordship
is aware of the
difference between
pursuing as we
does do a History
and consulting
as we do a Dicty
and as it they will
not take upon
moments beyond
which your Lordship
may feel
inclined, at any
time to allot to
them; the abundance
of the authors
may in that
respect be supplied
by that
of his with
.
12 Manufactory
Time was when
could have added
an opinion
of that the product
of an unexampled
system of naval manufacture
which would by this time have raised
the individuals
interested with a
proportionate stage
of opulence. Of
it had not but for the honour
of being destroyed in
by the hand
fostering hand
of Mr Pitt right
honorable hand
of Mr Pitt.
a course of eight
years injury oppression induced
by
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13
J.B. angry &c only to
his must confess
that to
I have
received from
men above in
my superiors
in power I have
never added that
self voluntary self-abasement
which
befits the plan
belongs of right
not to of the injured
but of the injuries
of the sufferers by injury
but to the authors.
who on
any account have
stood in need of my
assistance.
It is a matter
of vulgar policy
in high places
. . . . .
and to give the
expression of resentment
excited
by past injury
as a ground for
the injuries by
which it was
called forth.
14
J.B. 𝓧
Your Lordship
is not old enough
to remember otherwise
than in
history,
the sensation produced
by the
such as they were
which the public
see inflicted
on a factitious profligate.
I do not
mean to say, that
a man if compelled
and
would stand
on equal chance
of &c.
14 continued
All I mean to
insist on: is
that a tale of
this sort, if it
should chance
to find the crop
of the
14
empty of others
pasture – No
fact may – no
raw flesh eaters upon
the table carpet at the time.
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15
Palmer's Case.
I shall publish
I shall test petitions.
I have read Mr
Palmers Case. If
the public faith of Parliament
be not worth
keeping, there is
no help for it:
If Parliament desires
to sit still and
at the breach
of its own laws.
It is not worth
the while of Parliament
to see to the
preservation of its
own honour, it is
not worth mine
to attempt sue pray for it.
If two plain
and comparative
acts are to be
converted at
pleasure into
wash paper, so
it must be.
If the law itself
is to converted
into an instrument
of deceipt
for the ruin of
a blameless indiviual,
so it
must be.
16
Addington
Mr Addington
has
that by lying by doing
nothing, he will
be free from blame.
He will not find
it so. There is scarce
a crime that can
not be committed
by doing nothing.
It is by doing nothing
that a mother
destroys here
child.
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17
The reluctance
with which your
Lordship may
be reading this,
can never equal
that which I am
writing it.
It is in your It rests with
power your Lordship
to restore the
tarnished honour
of the Treasury,
to superede the
unprofitable Bankruptcy
which the
Government
has thought fit
to committ to
the prejudice of
a helpless Creditor; to wit
the of the
good Samaritans
and
all into the
wounds of a bleeding
traveller,
also knowing at the same time
that the part of
the Priest or the
might be
acted without blame
17
who yet can not
take upon him
pretend to say,
but
18
Addington
What The line
of conduct which he pursues, he
adopts:
which he adopts,
he makes his own.
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19
So close is the alliance
between want
of probity and want
of wisdom.
Though I saw the
trap that would be was intended
laid for me, and
described it, that
it might not be
laid for me, they
if Mr Vansittart
is to be believed
laid it for me before
my face:
and because I
would not not
being able to make
get me to step
into it, they
pushed me into
it by force.
20
Abuse itself is
a favour, in comparison
of
where answer
is looked for as a
guide to conduct.
21
When I was in
habits with the
Marquis of Lansdowne
– in office
or out of office –
I was as sure of
an answer from
him, as I could
have been from my
own servant.
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