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Letter 3

28 Decr 1802

XVII Hulk Mortality

7
they were not

Principles standing thus, now as to for facts.+1 The plan being
to be made, was it offered to either of these gentlemen? either of them? was it offered [to] Sir Henry Mildmay?
Was it offered to Mr Neild?—the negative is beyond but /nothing like it ever out of/ I can venture to answer
doubt too notorious. If in the /one of the two/ instance of the of those two gentlemen Sir Henry Mildmay's situation in life
admitted /excluded/ afforded—was such to exclude hope of his acceptance, that could not be the case in the other was not the case
at least in a degree equally obvious
with at least in equal degree with the latter Mr Neild. That Whether
he would not +2 was indeed he would or would not have accepted of the
office could not be known, to a certainty at least, without
acting: accordingly he was not asked. The experiment would have been
too dangerous: it was a case not to be trifled with. Seeing who he was
asking accordingly he was not asked. There would have
and how he had been occupying himself, and what he cared for, would
been the danger attended the wasting of time: it was not
any prudent man have answered for his non-acceptance?
on this very his active beneficence had embraced and covered Year after Year after year,
impossible he might have accepted.
the whole island: who could answer for his not consenting to charge himself
with two spots these two or three spots. Year after year,
for years he had performed gone through the same sort of business gratis:
who could answer for his not continuing to do undertaking refusal to undertake for a portion of it, for a
it was not impossible he might have continued to do it for a
price. For months, for years Year after year, he had done the same
sort of business without authority: that have considered it was not impossible who could say
it was not so much as improbable but he might that, with or
without pay, he might ordinary recompense, he might
have accepted of that authority, the effect of which
if it had any would be could not but be to second, pro
in such a variety of ways, his generous endeavours designs. Below
By the his he would In one place a greater a more effectual command of
information: above a more irresistible claim to attention.
To the melancholy occupation function of observing witnesses vice
and would now be thus added the noble task of remedying
it. Above Below—above—every where—authority,
even though it were without power is of use. Authority Below, it commands information:
authority above, it gives a claim to notice.

Were these gentlemen, or either of them, so much as
consulted with in the choice?—Nor that neither. How could
they have been? The place Under Your Lordships auspices the auspices of Lord Pelham
under the administration of the gentlemen on the other side of the wainscot—
under Mr King's administration places are made for gentlemen,
not gentlemen searched out for places. Is it not so?
a page or two will shew soon shew demonstrate.

+1 Of two persons will
competent in the highest degree to do the business
men above all exception
willing to do the business, in
at least one instance,
(for they had done it in one instance)
indication had been given
by experience. For this the effect Two Inspectors
spontaneous, zealous, gratuitous;
two for his one office.

+2 Thirty years ago, the
indefatigable and gratuitous
Agent of the charity for the relief
the his first
of Debtors, travelled the first of two circuits
three years before even
Howard had begun his.
I correct myself. I called
Neild a second Howard:
With more propriety I
might have called Howard
a second Neild.
Howard sunk under a
Jail fever or something
like it, Neild has survived
one. Howard
The exertions of Howard
have long since been received their
quietus from above: Neild's
seem out to encrease with age.
Five such circuits in
one year adorn the
annals of 1802. His
Honourable Colleague—
a number of legislators
and not an idle one—a
man standing already in full
light—could derive nothing
like illustration from a hand
like mine.
Some In a place station like
your Lordships there
have been men that would
have knelt to both these
gentlemen rather than
not have gained one of them
for the office. In the
instance of Mr Neild
at any rate whether

Identifier: | JB/116/591/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-12-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	7
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	591	Info in main headings field	letter 3
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8 / f48
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	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	38124
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