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Letter 3d

10 Decr 1802

XVI. Improved prisons

me?—Let any man of common sense and common
honesty answer—whether the foulness of the falshood
is at all by the equivocation
me. Oh but say Honourable Gentlemen we did not
say you insisted on any encrease of terms—all we
said was that you proposed it. True: but to
what purpose did you speak of a proposal made,
if you had not made sure that Parliament would
take for granted it had been insisted upon? From
a proposal made only and not insisted upon, could
you have deserved so much as the shadow of a pretence?
Let any man of common sense and common
honesty give the answer—is the foulness of the falshood
in the least degree claimed by the equivocation thus
employed to cover it? It was not enough that
the property of an unoffending man subject of his Majesty
should be destroyd, but his character was to be degraded,
and the eye of sympathy diverted reflected from his
case by representing him as a man who had
deserved his fate by refusing to stand to his engagements.

Understanding these
practices, which are altogether
but a link in a long
chain of similar
practices.
Understanding these
things Your Lordship
will moreover be the less
surprized that a correspondence
that would
have brought the claim
to light should have
been supported as
long as possible.

The practice being of this kind Your Lordship
will be the less surprized at the marks of conscious guilt
that went along with it. When it was that the insinuation the communication was
deigned should to meet the eye of Parliament, Gentlemen no names are put
to it ashamed to put their names to it: and when names
are put to it, it is in a correspondence destined to eternal
night—a correspondence the anxiously concealed from
the party whose fate was disposed of by it—and which
never would have been brought to light but for subsequent recordation accident
altogether unlooked for at the time then unthought of.

Parliament has
thus for the first time
and let us hope any
Lord for the last
suffered itself to be
consulted by an anonymous
report libel suitor
as forbids
my supposing would
have their long engaged concern otherwise than by engaging observations.

Identifier: | JB/116/491/001 "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	491	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	38024
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