JB/116/602/001

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Letter 3d (2 XVII Hulks
Lord: a literation, not. Spelling so quizzable, how could
facts be credible? of this argument — the best the case admitts of — I have I have filched from Noble
deprived, defrauded, gentlemen and Noble Lords. — Lords and gentleman. Alas, my Lord how many hundreds
of poor wretches had been in this world instead of another —
invisible one, had been comparatively happy - had been comparatively
pure, if no worse logic than that that had passed
from gentleman on t'other side the wainscot, had passed
upon Noble Lords?

11 October 1802

.."I promised to write to you as soon as I came here, but
could not so soon as I wished to do, for when I came here
I was robbed of all my paper and pens and all that I had. (a) (a) He does lists not say
by whom robbed, whether
by his fellow-prisoners
or by their keeper. But
if by the prisonersif not only by the keepers, but only,what
must be the keepers what then what in that that
supposition must be the keepers?
Such care. Such custody!
Such crimes, under thatsuch
, and no redress -oppressions close to them,
all round them, and no
redress! In a Panopticon
Penitentiary House could
such things be? Would Could
even the gentleman in the other
side of the wainscot
find fair to say as
much? - to whisper
as much even in the
well-prepared ear of
his noble superior in
office? ... About 500 convicts was drafted on board his Majestys
ship Glatton for New South Wales: in five months back: and
I wish it had been my lot to have gone with them, for
this place is is very bad one. We are double-ironed,
and work hard: and so close shut down betwixt decks when
from work, and so many and so close together, that we have
a sad stinking place: and what is worse, we can not keep
ourselves clean. W The men are very lousy, and are
cut quite raw with lice: and our provisions are so bad,
that the men break out all over sores, and look so bad
and so yellow, that you would not take them to be Englishmen
at all: nay you would be susprized to see them; for
I was when I came first to this place. They rob one
another, and write to one another's friends to draw money
of them in their names: and they have served me so; and
have kept me quite without money, and even without yet.
I had some old letters by me, which they robbed of when
I came here at first: but I hope to get some [i:e: money?]
soon, as the I think the rogues that have done it are gone to the Bay. [Botany Bay]

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Identifier: | JB/116/602/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-12-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	602	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d19 / e2 / f59
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		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	38135
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