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Letter 3d

My Lord
My last concluded with a sort of half-promise.
I now proceed to the fulfilment of it, with as much punctuality
as if it had been a whole one. Sir—you are too
good—not at all my Lord; I will be judged by the ,
who was the person I had in view.—Indeed, Sir—
and nobody else?—So you will not be are not read, and it is
upon this supposition that you write?—Something like it,
my Lord. The reader I am sure of is the Printer: the
reader I am not sure of is the gentleman, if there be such
a one, who, on petty occasions like the present occasion has it in charge to
read and think for Your Lordship, or at any rate to read.

On the 19th of August indeed Your Lordships own mind
was to have been applied to the subject—and that "at all events".
On the 19th of August Your Lordships own "endeavours"
were to have been employed to get something settled and "settled before the meeting
"of Parliament". Parliament met the 16th last that is the |^^^|th
instant: magna olim coli all the time. Yet of Mr Vani Secretary
+After this explanation, conf Vansittart is to be believed,
Lord Pelham is the Atlas on whose shoulders the world rests,
or at least this part of it. Shaken off by these superior shoulders,
the best that can have happened to it is, that in its fall it
should have been caught by some inferior subordinate one.

After this explanation, confessing , and
calling in whatever so much of fiction and inconsistency as may
be necessary to my end, I keep on making marks upon paper
just as if any such "exalted mind" as Your Lordships were
still to be applied to it: just as if any such things as reformation,
economy, life, person, property, public faith, parliamentary authority,
and so forth, were worth Your Lordship's notice.

+ Books sent back,
an accommodation
a favour Your Lordship
can not could scarce refuse either
to yourself or to me
now that they are become
nuisances—this resource
gone—Judges so perversely
decisive as to say Be
it so—this resource
exhausted—who would
remain to be concerned
with?—There would
remain Gog and Magog.

+1 Already, before September
was at end, so
was the
become, notwithstanding
with all its lightness, that
the point time of completion
was tranferred from
that finite period to another
infinite one. The
for "sending" to the man
was to be—not as its
at first before Parliament had
met—but after three
volumes not what expecting to
any such reading had
be read "had been
"read", and thirteen
personages not wishing expecting
for any such conversation
had been "conversed"
"with". This is
what a in this
country gets by sending presenting
to .
The Great Mogul would
not have proved me so.
What can I say more?

Identifier: | JB/116/534/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	534	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38067
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