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been less sincere in such their profession, than the Duke
of Portland would have been, had he done what he has
not done — condescended so much as to profess any such
disposition as that of promoting the object of the Act? -
I mean, my Lord, the Act which was calling upon him
as it continues calling upon yYour Lordship nor for obstruction
but for obedience - the Act his Grace has so well
"examined and understood the object of" the Act for the
establishment of that Penitentiary House, whihch it was
the object of this Letter of his to uncorowd of as many
inhabitants as had been designed for it by that Act.

It is in pursuance of this plan, my Lord, that a
little more than five months after viz: on the 25th of
March 1800, the Treasury, on the ground of a preparatory
Letter therein spoken of as received from his Grace, write
to me to acquaint me that the "proposed building of
"a Panopticon was to be calculated to accommodate 2000
"persons". This, by way of answer to an humble address
of mine, written of on the 17th of August more than seven
months before, in the declared view of my making
preparations of an expensive nature, and begging to know
for what number they were to be made. Faithful to
this same plan while I was amusing myself with
these preparations, together with other occupations
which the same policy had provided for me, the
Noble and Right Honourable and Honourable Conspirators
(if by a mere figure of speech a concentration
amongst potentates about crushing worms may be
thus characterized) from that time to the 18th of March
1801 conversing on the subject in confidential whispers between

Identifier: | JB/116/627/001 "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	627	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d31 / d32
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	38160
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