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28 decr 1802
Letter 3
Yes, my Lord there was inspection enough for Portsmouth, but there was
more left not was the more inspection for the Hulks. The gentleman
I have already said, had connections at Portsmouth: [+] it [+] in that agreeable circumstance
lay convicted the convenience of
the choice: should patrons
which rendered the
so convenient
in theory though so
impudent in practice
[+] Should patrons some future patron
Secretary be severe:-
in some contingent forced
Convicts of harsh discipline,
under some Pharoah that
knew not Joseph, should
each quarterly visit be
insisted upon, a persecuted
Inspector - mightand Inspector
take refuge in thedriven to his duty - might
under favour of that convenience, take refuge in the
bosom of his friends
was that circumstance which gave birth to this convenience.
convenience a delightful sound of which the name of which it is familiar in Acts of Parliament,
so pleasant to haveand in office: even in thatthe prolific convenience which gave to the
Act of Parliament, and through Parliament to the Office.
The gentleman had connections in Portsmouth: [+]2 then arrived the the
to be inspected in at any price rate, inspected in person, let extent would crime to rhe Policies as to the
Convicts they were inspected by proxy and their proxies, care
whom thay were saved the trouble of appointing, were those convenient
the gentlemans connections.
The Longstone Hulk back for Four miles further would have brought
An Inspector to the Longstone Hulk: a few hundred yards would havebeen enough to bring brought him
to the Portsmouth Hulk: neither, humanity, official duty, recent engagement -
the positive injunction of an Act of Parliament - all together could not
prevail upon himthe gentleman for to travel these few hundred yards.
—
What this been done, can not ever with perfect will
nor always be with perfect safety
Where nothing is done, not much can be reported. It will
not therefore be matter of much surprize that the Report Persecution or no persecution,
these friends
were to be and were
such as that which it was so carefully provided should be made at
the beginning of each Session to both Houses should not as
yet have been made to either of them. The first Session is notor what in effect is such
end, and no Report not so much as the first has yet been made being either made or thought of
When the definite peremptory duties of the Office are
thus initiatedtrod upon/suplanted/disposed of, it were idle an anticlimax to speak of contingent half formed duties duties to be performed
"at least", and "if need be" kind of new brooms even in the being hey day of
novelty, can not sweep cleanare thus far from sweeping clean, what may be expected
of them when oldof old brooms? of the same brooms when they are become old men.
There seems to be a sort of basketOne would think there were<add>had been</add> a wager between the his Majesty late Secretary The peace of Paris was
notinscription that the Earl of Bute,
less fortunate in his
than Mr Addington, than
for an opple by his tim.
What of his two
Acts or bile would be Ld
Pelham's ? This Police
Magistrate offers-presiding
Act, or the Blind Inspectorship
Act? Alas. talk not
of separation. Each withoutParts of the day
the same great design each
without the other would be
incompleat. The verses of
Bavius made not so, compleat
a match with Mavius but one Grenville Act there be hand to portray the par nobile fratram think the two Pelham Acts.
and his successorpresent, which shallshould do most to shew his contempt
offor Parliament. The one sits andtakes up an Act of Parliament, an still excites act in full force in chosen by
his predecessor, dashes throws it down, and for "inexpediency". sits and without for being very inexpedient
Another The other, obtains to a pounds friend otain
Act of Parliament of his own, and fornot the same purpose,generous view, and in the
very same year when made, sits still and see ittrampled trodden underfoot upon broken to pieces
under his nose, before his face.
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jeremy bentham |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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