JB/116/584/001

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Letter 3

27 Decr 1802

3
The enquiry originated
not in the office.

Who was it In whose attention With whom did the enquiry originate?
With any of the gentlemen who under in your Lordships
direction office, under by one name or another, Secretary, Under
Secretary, Secretary, Clerk Law Clerk, Secretary's Law Clerk
Clerk, are so well paid for looking after these things? No
my Lord, the wretches might have been rotten, the whole
hulk-full of them, as, and at the rate at they were rotting, half of them which they were rotting would
have been by this time, before any of these Under
would have thought it worth while or perhaps have
claimed to whisper a syllable into his ear of disturbing the sleep slumbers of the Subabdar
by so a single syllable whisper much as a whisper about what was passing in the Black
Hole: in the Black Hole which exceeded as it has
been in mortality—eclipsed as it is in barbarity, as
much as the barbarity of a night is eclipsed by the barbarity
of months and almost years, will henceforward yield
in proverbiality to Lord Pelham's the Duke of Port and
Mr King's and Mr Baldwin's Hulk: the Hulk La Fortronic:
for such by a strange horrible catastrophes, happens to
be the denomination of this ever memorable scene
of official barbarity and negligence.

Figures of
would here be thrown away:
figures of arithmetic
say every thing for
themselves.

4
—but with
strangers unpaid
volunteers
1. Jailors
2. Nield
3. Mildmay

If then with no one of the official persons who were
so well paid for it, with whom then did the enquiry originate?
said in the first instance with a
human Jailor, howsoever
whose duty led him to bring Convicts to this Hulk.
who if paid for keeping prisoners alive
which under his own custody was certainly not paid beforehand
nor as much less under Your Lordships liberty
for give troubling Noble Lords
with the information of the death mortality that ever swept
away the wretches after his hands were rid of them.

Identifier: | JB/116/584/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-12-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	3-4
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	584	Info in main headings field	letter 3
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d3 / f42
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	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	38117
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