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17 Apr. 1803 Two LettersPreface

☞ Insert in the Preface extract from Collins's last letter

Comparing the profession unexpectedly here made public with the silence – the safe and necessary silence
which has caused men may estimate a tolerably correct estimate may without much difficulty the regard that
paid in recently noble minds for the interests of morality good faith can security and public justice
The noble Lord one adept in silence – whose proficiency in the arts of silence is beyond dispute.

A question here presents itself.
Letters to Lord Pelham?
says somebody. Letters about Convicts and about Penal Laws
about Police! Who is this that writes letters to Lord Pelham
and upon such subjects? Write upon such subjects and to
Lord Pelham? To Lord Pelham and upon such subjects?
What did he ever know about them? What did he ever care
about them? Who then is Lord Pelham? What does Lord Pelham?
Where is Lord Pelham?

Unable to find Without a reason without the shadow or so much as the pretence of
an excuse Gentleman known that the inured opposed individual and the
still worse injured public is without remedy knowing that they themselves
can not be punished. Gentleman wrap themselves up not in their virtue
but in their power – and are silent

I answer – the ways Lords like other men must be taken as they are. We must take men as we find
them and where we find them. The ways of providence are inscrutable⊞ [+] ⊞ As they in the hands of the Kings justice are. The choice of his Majesty's Secretary of State is vested
in his Majesty. Lord Pelham is one of his Majesty's Secretaries
of State.

Obsequious towards those whom who can not be afforded injured without danger he is obliged to reckon with
avenger himself upon him those alone who has none to help him whose fate he
beholds lying at his feet.

The privilege of silence is not refused to the lowest class of malefactors:
who shall can refuse it to the highest. who shall match it from the strongest and the strongest.
have no protector advocate <add>guardian</add>: public security public morals have no guardian
engagements have no force: Parliament has no authority. Oppression
and perfidy are triumphant: oppressed finds no support
in the administration of Mr Addington
Compliant no redress nor so much as a hearing: letters
are doors shut: persons <add>speechless and inaccessible . The trust
of the public has been broken towards an unoffending individual.

The this: he has need of it: he has of it he is content it should be so: that it should
be so — that a wasteful and corruptive system should be perpetuated
as it suits the or ingenious interests, or copious
and passions of

[+]As clay in the hands of the

Kings are in
the hands of the King of Kings
so are subjects in the hands
Subjects are in
the hands of Kings, Kings
take subjects and take men
as they find them. The business subject
matter was of the number
of those which are understood
to belong to come under the
cognizance of a Secretary
of State.

the authority of Parliament
has been openly trampled upon
and
and the public faith shou'd
Parliam
<add>to the of a devoted
Parliament should
a state of

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Date_1	1803-04-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	473	Info in main headings field	two letters
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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