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maintenance of whom the City of London continues to be taxed by Your
Lordship, in pursuance of the plan of finance laid down
by Your Lordship's particular friend and predecessor by the
Duke of Portland: 252 convicts, who whom quite as much accordingly
to law, and much more according to political at least,
not to say substantial justice, might be quartered upon
Burlington House, or in Stratton Street. Your Lordship
smiling approbation, all the while for the twelvemonth part and I
I know not but how much longer, as often as any obtrudin parliamentary approver
of the a parliamentary plan of justice and reformation, ventured
to obtrude a hint about performance it; bestowing upon it those ready-prepared smiles
which Your Lordship has treasured keeps up in store for it is ready to bestow upon it for
any number of months & years months and years to come
to bestow upon it during the time of the projectors life, un
to be dealt out to it in regulated measure, so long as the projector lives, or
till a pretence warrant can be found, for converting prudential smiles into
undissembled undisguised frowns; always precipitate and obtrusion of intemperance
such as these forced among a warrant such as the may
be found precedents of office maywithout much difficulty be made to furnish—for instance among the precedents of
"the length of time for instance that has elapsed" in the informality and intemperance display
betrayed by animadversions such as
these.

In what degree, if in any, death may have been
in that and roomy Jail, spite of every relief that
the attention of a human keeper can bestow, have been
the fruit of all this crowding and all this misery, it
had not fallen in my way to learn. On board the
Hulks, the sort of attention which his Grace and his
noble Successor have afforded bestowed upon the subject—the attention of crowding those receptacles
likewise with Convicts designed for the Penitentiary House by Parliament,
has not been without its fruit: but of this fruit,
sweet, I suppose, to the task of those who cultivate it, better
one should have supposed,
to the taste of all who every man who has to taste who has any taste/sense remaining either
for either of humanity or justice, the description which has just
reached me, calls for will find another place station, under the
resumed title of the Hulks.

Identifier: | JB/116/568/001 "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	568	Info in main headings field	letter 3
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f28
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38101
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