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Letter 2d

20 Novr 1802

XV Hulks

From this view, my Lord, your Lordship, I am inclined to think will
nevertheless see reason for join putting the seal of authority upon my
join with me in opinion, that the Hulks, pernicious as they are, are upon the
whole a much less negligible are at any rate a much less pernicious receptacle for convicts than
New South Wales. the improved Colony: and that if the manufacturers of
reasons grounds for relinquishment could be supposed for a been/argument sake, be supposed serious otherwise
in the composition of this list otherwise than in just he unimproved a much sounder
more substantial ground reason for relinquishment could might have
been made out of the unimproved and unimprovable
Hulks, and than out of the in their/so much improved and ever alike
improving Colony.

+ to have been serious otherwise than
in spirit.

+ to have considered
themselves for a moment as responsible
to God or man for

From In this view, my Lord, Your Lordship, (I am)
inclined to think) you will see for to some ground for the opinion,
that—be (setting aside in the case of New South Wales, the incompleat the security grounded on the illegal part
of the punishment, a security which accordingly to the latest
accounts is in a way to be much weakened if not given up
and of which the degree in respect of the number of returners depends in a great degree upon
unforseeable and uncontrolable contingencies)
the Hulks, pernicious as they are, are at any rate a less
pernicious receptacle for Convicts than New South Wales: and
that if the manufacturers of grounds for relinquishment could
have been supposed for a moment to have considered themselves
as responsible to God or man for the composition of their list,
or for the system of conduct grounded on it.
or of the measure ground of use it, course of action
a much more substantial ground might have been made out
of the unimproved and unimprovable Hulks, than out of
the so much improved and ever alike-improving Colony.

Identifier: | JB/116/538/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-11-1802 "1802-11-1802" contains a sequence that could not be interpreted against an available match matrix for date components.	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	538	Info in main headings field	letter 2d
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38071
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