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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 "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	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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