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Letter 3 Note

Another and scrape indeed,
A more serious scrape indeed, it must be confessed, my
Lord and a still more serious one in appearance at least.

A more serious scrape, my Lord, is that which the worthy
Magistrate has seems to have fallen into, by asking for money Jail-
building money from Parliament, to ease his
Country from so much Poor-Rate+

(b) See below note ( ).
(c) Another scrape, my Lord, and that a most more perplexing
one, which the worthy Magistrate has fallen into, what can be done
to being him out of it? Finding the expence of Convicts
laying upon the Counties County Jails his proposition is to bear
this part of it at least thrown by Parliament upon the
public purse. A more unfortunate heresy sure was
never fallen into, than this which is thus fallen into, by
a gentleman who most assuredly meant nothing less than
heterodoxy.—Ah! why did I not see that fatal page before Who shall obtain his pardon from Your
Lordship most noble predecessor is not to speak of successors?
but that accident may throw in his way the means of service.
even Saints have been saved by reprobates:—there are cases in
Finding the same burthen already laid by Parliament
which even lions have might been preserved by mice
had Parliament been in power upon the public purpose, the
Duke of Portland by a half-passed conferred point of taxation,
determined determine, as your Lordship has seen and with Your Lordship's concurrence desire
that it shall continue and accordingly during the remaining remainder
of his 's reign it did continue, and now during
Your Lordship's still continues, [in] spite of Parliament fastened upon the counties.

What can be done On this untoward sad occasion what is there that can be done for the worthy
Magistrate a gentleman who in the midst of his anxieties to steer clear of the rock
stumbling stone of offence runs full has run thus full against it but upon it? Speak to him my
Lord speaking words of consolation in his ear my Lord, in mercy speak to him: tell him
any thing that will quiet him: to make him easy: tell him that right and
wrong upon existing circumstances: tell him
that if any such determination was ever professed, to keep in the County as charge that of charging
prisons expence of upon the Counties the prisoners who, it had been
determined by Parliament, should be charged upon kept at the expence of</del>
the public purse, it was only a way of speaking: assure him that
nothing that all their
machinations for
throwing the prisoners
upon the counties,
was all a jest: a
-believe.

It is but t'other
day that.

+ "Great persons" have were
at the pains of breaking
but just broke through
Acts of Parliament to tax
the Counties in the lump
in for the
great person to make
Parliament threw it,
this part of it at least
existence, there where /and already/ they
he calls upon them
are thus called upon
to undo their own
undoings, and relieve
this one worthy Magistrate's
County, by a particular Act—by a privilegium
to be made on purpose
which he would
have thus
got made on purpose.

+ I speak of what
would have been done
had Parliament
been in power)

Identifier: | JB/116/585/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1803-01-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	585	Info in main headings field	letter 3 note
Image	002	Titles	note to p. 3
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f42*
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38118
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