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indeed, and such people say it would be a very good
thing for him: but, Sir, they know nothing at all
about the matter. He says the don't. Had this
been otherwise than satisfactory, could it ever have
been less so than the sum total of these four grounds
or fortey such grounds put together? —

This (Your Lordship kn knows or may know
at any time whether there be any thing like truth
in it) would at any rate have been frank & open:
but policy, the very profundity of policy, was the
order of the day with his Grace. —

A plot like this! a plot for getting prisons
built by stratagem! - a plot for helping a thing
on by stopping it! In this or any other country - in
the regions even of imagination, wide as they are,
is there any thing like a parallel to it to be found?
Let us try, my Lord. —

After this at least, who shall that, among
the robbers that render walking unsafe and the burglarers
that render sleep unquiet, there may not be
patriots in disgrace, who waiting the self-devotion
of a Curtius to the policy of a Machieavel, are
emulating all the while in their humble sphere,
this brilliant emanation of official wisdom —deep
laid plan of the Duke? - this deep laid plan of
the Duke slipt upon and thereby acted upon with
or without dreams about causes and consequences
by his Grace's Noble Successor ! Such (they may be
saying to themselves) is "the spur spirit of improvement
"which now so universally prevails" among his

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	626	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d29 / d30
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	38159
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