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"application were made, where applications well-founded will
"never fail of due attention
, * that such relief would be
"obtained, as, without adding to the burthen of the County-rate,
would enable the magistrates to carry the plan
"into effect". —

N<hi rend='underline'>o</hi>.. 3. Page 44. "What then may not reasonably be
"expected from one, who certainly feels, as much as any
"man, the importance of restraining vice, & improving
"morals
, to the welfare of society? (a)?+ It would be impossible, verily

"(a) This testimony, it is humbly hoped, will not be
"considered as an instance of flattery to the great
"person here alluded to, but a declaration, the truth
"of which, all to whom his character is known, will
"readily confirm".

* What strange place can this be which the worthy Magistrate is spaeaking of or dreaming of? - I who have been upon the look out for such a place for above these 8 years have never yet been able to meet with anything like it? Is it any where about the Treasury? - any such place as the closet of any such person as the "great "person alluded to" presently after by the worthy Magistrate ? Then as to foundation — what sort of a ground is it (I wonder) thant "an application" must have to make it a "well founded" one? - An Act of Parliament for example? applications have been made on such grounds month after month, yeeaar after year, to as great persons as any he can have been attending to alluding to, and the "attention" shewn to them has been worse than none:— it has had every property of refusal, saving only the honesty one the one part & the quietus on the other.

+ If what the worthy Magistrate really looks for is a person great or otherwise, who by what he "feels" about "the "importance of restraining vice and improving morals" is to afford him such provision for his prisoners as shall not



Identifier: | JB/116/631/001
"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

631

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d39 / d40

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

38164

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