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7 Jany 1803 Letter 3 (4 XVII

In the fifth and last place, where the gentleman wants - + to employ the abuse to profit
and apply it to the main and original end and
object of all exertion and all negligence [the accommodation of friends by places sinecures
being, as already explained, but an incidental and collateral
+ wants at all times and upon all occasions wants of this abuse as of as many other abuses as can be heaped by others is to employ it to the best advantage to
one] I mean the defeating the system of reform prescribed
by Parliament. Witness the still decent letter of the 11th
of October 1799 — the letter from floor to floor — signed
by the Duke of Portland, written by the gentleman on
the other side the wainscot, avowing the design of crowding
the Gaols, with prisoners forbidden by Parliament
to be kept in them — crowding them the existing Gaols for the purpose of
the Counties forcing the contributions to the Poor Rates to be at the expence
of building more Gaols. Witness again the other secret
letters between the same two floors since judged half public from floor to floor House in Gaols letters
since rendered half public +, justice for the
+see appendix
relinquishment of the system of reform, and drawing a
to them our point all intentions quantity of abuse could
be collected in the compass of this fertile <add>in the intended </add> and but
extensive field. Abuse Abuse in Gaols — penal colonization fertile field — a field marked out and covered by the system of chromial punishment.
system, made up of nothing but abuse — which
system teeming with abuse and containing little else —
penal colonization system, made up of nothing but abuse:
(the whole ground thus kept covered with / abuse, in
all its forms varieties thus kept in full fruit, to cover the whole
surface of the ground, for the avowed purpose that not
a may be left on which the it may be possibly for the system of reformation
was to at its fort.




Identifier: | JB/116/508/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.

Date_1

1803-01-07

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

508

Info in main headings field

letter 3

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

1800

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1800

Notes public

ID Number

38041

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