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Letter 3d

1 Decr 1802

Note?
XVI. Improved prison

The more Your Lordship sees of this letter, the less you
will be surprized that Your Lordships friends the Messrs Addington
did which depended upon them towards preventing
the publication of it: neither case publishing it themselves
at my request in nor yet refusing to publish it, because but it should
thereupon be published immediately, as I gave had given them to
understand it would by me.

not yet publishing it
nor yet refusing to publish
it, but I should as I
said I would.

Their prodigious to feel themselves called
upon to give
An account being to be given it seems
to Parliament amongst other things of the reason why obstacles that
nothing was do had stopped the Parliamentary business stuck in hand
—a cause being to be assigned and the true one not
fit to be avowed, it was gentlemen thought fit to make a false one was to be manufactured
the business was to manufacture a false one, but not a false one such as would
have been a good one had it been true. The pretence
set upon was that it was I that with me that
the non-execution of the contract stopped—for that it
was I that had gone back from my own terms. This
was accordingly what they gentlemen they gave Parliament to understand
in their pirated publications: and thus I found
was what was actually understood by every body as many persons
as there were readers. To give colour to the pretence
they had taken professed announced to me their determination of their own accord an intention their determination
to double the number of prisoners originally agreed for. This
encrease being to be assumed the quantum of the expence
must of course be encreased, as the rate could not be
kept the same.+ Being thus called upon I could not
avoid giving in a fresh "proposal": but knowing my
men and seeing what they were about knowing that they/to whom I took care that
had pledged the the establishment should be laid aside, while they were
pretending to me that they would double it Whatever fresh terms they had forced me to propose, they
should

Could any body
have supposed that
gentlemen, and in
men calling themselves
gentlemen and in
such high situations
should have dared
to insult Parliament
and stain their own
character by a
falshood not only
wilful and deliberate,
but capable at any
time of being made
notorious.

+ It will be understood
without much difficulty
that two thousand men can
not be lodged for the same
sum as one thousand.



Identifier: | JB/116/489/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.

Date_1

1802-12-10

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

489

Info in main headings field

letter 3d

Image

001

Titles

note?

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

38022

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