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his Majesty's Ministers in the Police department in
respect not of Gaols only but of instruments of all
kinds in the apparatus for the prevention of
crimes - such is the energy with which the Duke
of Portland determined to "crowd the County Gaols"
for fear of "their being neglected." - Such is the energy
with which Lord Pelham has forced a fifth hundred
a year into the hands of the Police Magistrates -
Such is the energy with which at the price of
£87. 10 a peep, he has determined that four peeps
in a year shall be taken at the Hulks- such is
the "spirit of improvement" manifested by there
congenial and combined exertions that unless a few
patriots like ourselves were to help "crowd" the streets
with robbers and the houses with burglarers this
"spirit of improvement" among there hitherto zealous
and spirited improvers might be "checked" and all
these their implements of improvement - super-pensioned
Magistrates - Quarterly peepers at Hulks - and even "crowded"
"Gaols themselves" might come to be "neglected": To a plain
understanding, could these ideal plans of these ideal Machiavels
have been more directly repugnant to the
dicr decrease of crimes than the real plan of the
real Machiavels to the diminution of the mischief
of of pensions? - Are not support and opposition -
plain dealing & deceit - truth & falsehood - right & wrong -
merit and guilt confounded and if possible rendered
indistinguishable by such plans?-

Had any of the professional men just spoken
of professed this to be their object would they have
been

Identifier: | JB/116/626/002 "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	626	Info in main headings field
Image	002	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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