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few drops from it to save this worthy gentleman.
If it be in the power of virtue to give a claim to
mercy, has he not virtue to comm command it?
This faith, his hope, his charity, do they not all
center in great persons?
Speak to him then, my Lord, once more: —
say to him any thing that will make him easy.
Show him how right and wrong depend upon existing
circumstances: — whisper to him that all this Machiavelism
for throwing prisoners upon Counties
was a mere make-believe: satisfy him that nothing
can be a matter of more profound indifference to
any body than it is to great persons in what Jal
Jail, or Hulk, or improved Colony, and in what numbers,
human creatures starve or poison one another, so that
there be not a "Panopticon for them to be sent to": —
remind him, that in the place he has in view, no
offence can, by any Jail or number of Jails, improved
or unimproved, be ever given to Noble Lords, whose
veto, when they are pleased to pronounce it, is so
fatal to Acts of Parliament: — assure him, that neither
by the great person, nor by any other, is the purse
ever taken out of the hands of Parliament, unless for
a particular purpose, and to oblige a friend: certify
to him, that measures of this sort are disposed of, moment
after moment, sometimes upon one principle,
sometimes upon opposite principles, as the cove
convenience of each moment presents them to great
minds: explain to him, that when persons are approved of,
& the purpose of the moment is to be seve served; there
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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john herbert koe |
1800 |
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1800 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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