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upon it thou ready-prepared smiles which Your Lordship
has treasured up in store for it to be dealt out to it
in regulated measure, so long as the projector lives,
or till a warrant can be found for converting pi prudential
smiles into undissembled frowns: - a warrant
such as the precedents of office may without much
difficulty be made to furnish — "the length of time" (for
instance) "that has elapsed", or the informality and
intemperance displayed by animadversions such as these.

In what degree, if in any, death may in that
superb and roomy Jail, spite of every relief that the attention
of a humane keeper can bestow, have been the fruit
of all this crowding and all this misery, it has not
fallen in my way to learn. On board the Hulks the sort
of attention which his Grace and his Noble Successor
have bestowed upon the subject — the attention of crowding
those receptacles likewise with Convicts designed for
the Penitentiary House by Parliament, has not been
without its fruit: but of this fruit, sweet, I suppose,
to the taste of those who cultivate it, bitter I should
have supposed to the taste of any , every man who has any sense
remaining either of humanity or justice, the description
which has just reached me called for another station
under the resumed title of the Hulkes. -

Besides the abovementioned, inconveniences the
plan for thus forcing the County to fill itself with
County and other local Penitentiary Houses upon the
gallynot scale he's open to two objections. — One is, that
the Counties (as has been already hinted) will not all
of them suffer themselves to be thus forced. Another is,

Identifier: | JB/116/628/002 "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	628	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d33 / d34
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	38161
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