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Letter 3d
Such (Your Lordship sees) is the treatment which
Your Lordship's office gives to an Act of Parliament,
when Noble Lords have "examined & understood the
"object of it ." The declared object and the sole object
of this Act, is to cause a Penitentiary House or
Houses one or more to be erected for the whole
kingdom, for applying the Penitentiary discipline
to Convicts of all descriptions. This not meeting the
views of the Duke of Portland, principles are laid
down by him, according to which no Convicts of
any one description whatever are ever to be put
into it, except in a case whilch is never to take
place. Not a Convict is to be sent out of any
one Gaol till it has been crowded to the verge of
"absolute necessity" and this is an event that is
never to take place becau because before it does
take place the bare apprehension of it is to cause
a roomier Gaol to be built. Parliament has one
plan about these people: the Duke of Portland has
another. Understanding the object of Parliament
he makes no secret of his "inclination" to do by it
what, having power so to do, he has done by it — to
defeat it. Defeat the object of an Act of Parliament?
— why ? — because according to the Duke of Portland
it would be very inexpedient to pursue it. It would
defeat the more expedient plan which this servant
of the Crown has formed for the disposal of the
persons in question, in spite of Parliament viz:
"crowd" the jails with them: those very jails in which
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Identifier: | JB/116/623/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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623 |
letter 3d |
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001 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
2 |
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recto |
d25 / d26 |
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john herbert koe |
1800 |
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1800 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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