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21 Dec 1802
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they might submit to the calamity thus passing upon them — as they
a murrain among Convicts, as they
would to any other calamity, such as a murrain among
the cattle: they might look upon it as a sort of momentary
and passing scourge, and ascribe it rather to a want an absence of
thought rather than to any such exuberance and profundity and for a construction an interpretation to their effect of this evil, surely my Lord, there could not be any great want of grounds.
of thought. But if As it was not in the nature of the
case that gentlemen thus plagued should find out what
his Grace the noble arbiter of their fate had in view in plaguing them, much less
is it in proof or in probability that his Grace should
ever have condescended to give bestow upon them any such
information of himself. Were even the fact of proposed and
anxious concealment out of the question, no man sent surely
who should have read this letter, can have conceived it possible
that it should have been the intention of + + any person who either argued it or wrote it, or if there were any such other person other person, thought about it 2 It is converted into a plan, only by the very fabrication of it the noble writer
that the contents of it or any part of them should hav
ever travell a safe beyond the be two floors frombetween
which it passed. one of which to the other it was transmitted. [If this be
true, and if the knowledge of the existence of a plan be
necessary to the execution of it on the part of those to who by
that plan are to be drawn or led to execute it, a pardon matter<add>result</add>
in no small degree beyond any natural of course of expectation
of no small degree of response will be sure to follow. The
accomplishment of this design notwithstanding of this high-born and super-official design
for its accomplishment will after all be
due in no small degree to such an homunico as myself.
If it be to his Grace alone that the law behest of his Grace is indebted
for its conception, origination to me, my Lord, (Your Lordship
starts and smiles) Yes to me, my Lord to the poor worm
Your Lordship he treads on, that the law is indebted for its promulgation.
What irregularities anomalities what vicissitudes will sometimes be displayd
by the tide which manifests itself in the affairs of men." What How
whimsical and paradoxical and unexpected will be the contrasts and

Identifier: | JB/116/494/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-12-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	2
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	494	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
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	38027
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