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Letter 3d

29 Decr 1802

XVII Hulk Mortality

The gentleman whose duty it had been—first under the
Duke of Portland, then under Your Lordship—to have put
prevented the individual abuse to have dried it upon
its source—(I speak of the individual abuse—the barbarity and consequent mortality) to have prevented it by drying it up in its source the mode <add>means the
whole system of hulk
system of hulk-
confinement in close vessels
the gentleman who to avoid preventing
it set aside two Acts of Parliament, by the letter
to which the Duke was unadvised ill advised enough to give auspices
and signature—this gentleman, instead of preventing
the abuse, nurses it:—he nurses it for months and
the abuse itself for months years: he nurses the mortality
abuse itself for months a year and a quarter, and I know not how much longer;
your Lordship to this day. He nurses the abuses
itself till it is ripe—till it is rotten ripe—rotten ripe on the verge of universal rottenness—
ripe by rotting of the victims at a rate at which the by till they are almost
greater part of them this time they would have been more than half
killed off—he keeps nursing it to this pitch of critical
ripeness—when by a to a period at which/when lo! by a a stroke of fortune as happy
as once misfortune improved misadventure converted by his ingenuity into
a prize lucky , on occasion turns comes up for recommending
a friend to look at it: to look at it,
but not to go unpaid for looking at it:+ and, on
pretence of correcting it, to keep it uncorrected.

In this place, I feel myself compelled truth compells me to acknowledge,
legal proof that would be termed legal fails me:
rumour—notoriety—whatsoever be the word—is on several points the only
ground I can so much as point to even exhibit, ever so much as in the way
of reference. I have no eye witness to depose, that
as often as a Noble Lord Secretary has appeared to act, the a gentleman
on the other side the wainscot has pulled the wires:
were

+ Thus in an inferior
hotbed an immature felon
(I have heard it said) is
is said to be nursed
till he is become ripe:
a felon worth but £10, till
he is worth £50. Those
are petty profits, fit for petty
hands.
£350 a year, is not to a
for a gentleman who does
be raised so easily
every thing was not to be
made up so easily
a hecatomb, and more
than a hecatomb, of
victims was necessary to
wretches was to be sacrificed
before an offering
could be raised of
offering could be raised
magnitude for the hand of
chosen of the chosen
for the profit who was
to stretch his hands
over the altar, and
make as if he were
slaying the plague, and
putting a period to
the sacrifice.

Identifier: | JB/116/595/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-12-29	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	595	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d12 / f52
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38128
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