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Letter 3

27 Decr 1802

XVII Hulk Mortality

How should any report have been made thing have been reported? To be reported,
So much for theory: now for experience: so much for duty
something must have been done: to have been reported as seen,
now for performance—something must have been seen looked at. This is
which is precisely what ought to have been done is precisely what had been
left undone.

At what time Proscribed Times prescribed for inspection, by this nugatory
Act—(nugatory, or little better, had it even been executed)—times for inspection once a quarter:
once a quarter "at the least": oftener if need be: times of actual inspection, a
blank or what is next to it.

Of the three or four Hulk stations the only two distant ones, one
The two distant Hulks at
At what time time or times the At Portsmouth
another at Portsmouth, the other at four miles distant from
and Langdon Harbour, four miles distant from the first are all I have as yet inquired
about: but these surely are sufficient. One of them is that
which, but for the Jailer and Mr Neale Neild
and Sir Henry Mildmay, might have buried all its inhabitants
before now: the La Fortinue—the English Black
Hole, now first known, but which ought to be had in
everlasting remembrance.

At what time or so much as the new installed Hulk Inspector
inspected neither of these Hulks my authority has not
informed:+ "at any rate the least" I take for granted: the pride
of new-blown authority must have been made
idlers does not grudge the
send a gentleman a man upon one journey, to take possession of installation progress, indeed if it does/could not to strip the first sweets of office
the new-found his place. Since what During what space of time this quarterly Inspector
of places scenes of daily abomination has never visited
them is a point I can speak to with assurance more confidence: I say, then, not
these six months: so far at least as if an untutored answer to a
from a man of known intelligence and trustworthiness to a simply enquiring
letter the object of which was carefully and effectually concealed
letter is to be depended upon, in respect of a matter of
fact thus simple. What Sir says Your Lordship has not Portsmouth
thus been visited by the Inspector of Hulks gentleman in all this time? Is it that
the Police Office could not spare him? Oh no my
Lord the Police Office could spared him without difficulty:
was it possible in the nature of things that a Police office it should not have spared him, when+3 Your
Lordship it had made it a matter of his duty to go elsewhere?
Yes

+ once in the three
quarters instead of
once in each quarter
once "at the least"

+2 do you wish me
to understand?

+3 should not have
spared a gentleman
to whom
by so recent a
manifestation of superior
pleasure, his Majesty's
Secretary of State.

Identifier: | JB/116/598/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-12-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	598	Info in main headings field	letter 3
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d15 / f55
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38131
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