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to bring Convicts to this Hulk. In the first instance
with this unpaid Jailer: in the next place, with
an unpaid gentleman — with a gentleman to whom
because there were unpaid gentlemen to whom such
intelligence would (it was known) be as interesting,
as to the so well paid gentlemen it would have been
indifferent, if not worse than indifferent, the information
was addressed. I speak of Mr Neild, a second
Howard, who with all the zeal, with all the munificence,
and more than all the gentleness of his illustrious
predecessor, has spoken the word — has started
noble game, and caused the mask of humanity to
fall off from faces of higher rank, than those of
the subordinate tyrants, whom it fell to the lot of
his predecessor to hunt out of their holes. —

A private gentleman could point to Lord Pelham's
office: it required a Member of Parliament,
if not two, to force the intrenchments of it. Mortality
(says one of those to whom this humane Jailor's Letter
had been shewn) mortality is raging in the Hulks: Sir
Henry Mildmay — Mr Neild — were it but possible — would
look at it. The visit not being to be prevented, nothing
was left to persons in office (Gentlemen or Noble Lords
I know not exactly which) but to be delighted with it.

it occasion that, in regard to the whole number confined in that same
Hulk, he learnt what is mentioned by Sir Henry Mildmay & Mr Neild: (a) Neild p. 315. out of 500, living at the commencement of the year 1801, deaths 120,
at the end of it.

The survivors, upon his enquiry, say they are "half
"starved": — appearances speak the same thing: — officers plump & rosy.
Would this be the case, if mere pestilence without famine were the
cause? — The question is not mine: to the humane and intelligent
informer belongs the credit of it. —



Identifier: | JB/116/636/002
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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

636

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d49 / d50

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, and note 4 to letter 1824, vol. 7

ID Number

38169

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