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between floor and floor consulting with one another by
what words they should make Parliament believe that
I had insisted on an increase of terms, spite of all I
could say to the contrary reiterating to one another the
reciprocal assurances of that persevering fondness for
"improved prisons" as well as "improved Colonies" the
expression of which was so unexpectedly brought to light
Your Lordship and his Grace knows how.-

In the Panopticon system Your Lordship has been
seeing a plan, which because sanctioned and again
by Parliament, prescribed by an Act, confirmed four years
after in another Act, confirmed by £36.000 granted towards
the execution of it, and by £24.000 public money actually
expended in it, and if his Grace's will be done
wasted upon it, was termed a "project", and under
that name of unfounded reprobation marked out for
"relinquishment". Would to God his Grace's more successful
plan - for emaciating his Majesty's subjects in by
a "long confinement" in illegally and purposely crowded
Jails, for producing Jail-Fevers in them or whatever
other miseries might be the result of their being "crowded"
each of them in the degree necessary to prevent it from
being "neglected" - for exercising over his fellow subjects
by the secret will of this servant of the Crown out of
sight of his royal master, that authority which, if
attempted to be exercised by the master, a Hampden
would have resisted with his blood - would to God
a plan like this, my Lord had been but a project!
Would to God that any considerations whatever, divine
or human, religious or moral, of police or economy, of
justice

Identifier: | JB/116/627/002 "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	627	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	002	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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