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under the Noble Duke's own signature, the "crowding" plan
would prove to be a plan adopted deliberately by his Grace,
for a special purpose, to afford a pretence for the design
of defeating the object of two Acts of Parliament; of that
the inconvenience ȁ an inconvenience which it was now
determined to multiply and spread over all the Counties,
was a result directly in the contemplation of his Grace, produced
by him, or at least professed to be intended to be produced,
on purpose, as a means of effecting or giving colour to that
plan of his for setting himself above Parliament.

The "expence" is another subject of their complaint. They represent
it as being "very severely felt"; and, so persuaded are they
that they are "confident" in their hopes of having it reimbursed — reimbursed
to wit by Government. They may now see that this expence,
that set so heavy upon them — the casual expence resulting from
the temporary maintenance of a few State Prisoners, was but
a feather in comparison of the load — the double load — so soon
after destined for their backs by the same potentate: the expence
of maintaining Convicts of all sorts instead of their being maintained
from the funds prescribed by Parliament, of the expence of providing
another Jail or two under the pressure of the "crowding" produced by
his Grace for this very purpose: the first an annual expence, of
according to his Grace's plan, a perpetual one: the other an expence
in the shape of money paid once for all — of capital advanced: say, to begin
with, some £60,000, to £80,000 more, in addition to the cost of this
new established Gaol, over crowded already to the degree of which they
complain thus heavily. Little did they suspect, that an expence which
to their feelings was every thing, was as nothing in the conception of
this arbiter of their fate: that in the same proportion in which in their
estimate it was increased, it was reduced in the estimation of this Chancellor
Extraordinary of the Exchequer, by whom a bar then is considered as
annihilated when it is thrown upon a wrong fund.

The line of conduct pursued in the two cases is one thing: the legality
of it in the two cases is another. In the particular case which gave
birth to this complaint the hardship at any rate is evident enough.
How in that case the matter stood in point of right it would
be altogether beside the present purpose to enquire. His Grace
had certainly at that time no such object as that which he found
about sixteen months after—that of defeating the object of two
Acts of Parliament.

Identifier: | JB/116/625/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	625	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d28* / d28**
Penner	john herbert koe	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	38158
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