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10 Decr 1802 Letter 3

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XVI. Improved prisons

should not leave to say that I had insisted upon them.
I not only did not forbore did not simply forbear to insist, my Lord; but I
took care to disclaim the idea of insisting in as
strong terms words as strong and pointed as I could devise. [ When did
Honourable Gentlemen in consequence?] not being able to
get any thing better from me than a bare proposal
they tool with that took up with that laid hold on that, and went fitted
it up to work with it. They spoke of a natural alteration
in my terms — of an increase of terms — and at
last of a great encrease of terms, always keeping to when speaking of what I had for
the same word or a conjugate of it "proposal"
"proposed" "propose" — Had even the rate demanded as well
as the quantum demanded been encreased — Your Lordship may
judge — any man of common sense and common honesty
may judge — whether by a bare proposal to that
effect or any other — a proposal not insisted upon — the contract
would have been departed from on the one side, or so
much as a colour afforded for breaking it on the other.
But neither was the rate so much as proposed to be
increased nor was the proposal for the encrease in
quantity necessary to prevent preserve the rate from diminution
or much as insisted upon in any proposal insisted
upon. That in when their communication made to
Parliament being employed spoken all along the of what I had proposed
their proposed expectation and was that I should
be understood by Parliament that whatever proposal had
thus been made by me was a proposal from the of which I would
not : is not to be doubted: for had I asked
for ever so much more money than I had agreed to take, what
would the public any body have been the power of any body had give it
me?

they determined to
take up with that
and make the most
of it

a proposal properly
forborne to be insisted
upon

So they as gentlemen
did not part with their
money much the
pooer would they have been
for having me ask first?
when would the
public have been the poorer.
It is the parting with
money that makes a man
the poorer not the having
is asked for.

Identifier: | JB/116/490/001 "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	490	Info in main headings field	letter 3
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	38023
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