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2 Jany 1802

XVI. Improved prisons

many are in Your Lordship's hand—grudge not a few
drops from it to save this worthy gentleman. If it
be in the power of virtue to give a claim to mercy
to convert it into justice has he not virtue to command
it? His faith, his hopes, his charity, do they
not all center in great persons?

Remove for the benefit
comfort of his and
downcast adoring eyes a corner
of the curtain that
covers and adorns sanctifies the
sanctuary.

Speak to him then, my Lord, once more:—
say to him any thing that will make him easy.
Shew him how right and wrong depend upon existing
circumstances: whisper to him that all this Machiavelism
for throwing prisoners upon counties was a mere
make-believe: assure satisfy him/bear witness, that nothing can be a matter
of more profound indifference to any body than it is to great
persons in what Jail, or Hulk, or improved Colony
and in what numbers, human creatures starve or prison
one another, so that there be not a "Panopticon for
"them to be sent to": remind bid him observe +consider, that whether
improved or unimproved, no Jail, in the place any such high place as he has
in view, can ever rise up to give to Noble
Lords, to noble and
and Lords, for whose veto is capable of
strikes striking a at any time into the hand Acts of Parliament: assure satisfy him,
that neither by the one great person, nor by any other predecessor
of his in the same office, nor any colleague or predecessor
of a colleague in any neighbouring one office, has ever put himself to any such trouble
so much as harbour harboured any risk as that of taking the power
ever thought of of is the purse ever taken out of the hands of Parliament, unless
for a particular purpose, and for example to oblige a friend:
shew certify

+ that in the place
he has in view
no can by
any Jail, or any
number of Jails
improved or unimproved,
can any
umbrage come be given
to Noble Lords, whose
veto, when they are
pleased to pronounce it
is so fatal to Acts of
Parliament.

Identifier: | JB/116/579/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1803-01-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	579	Info in main headings field	letter 3
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f37
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38112
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