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recognized as such- a principle so immorally applied to practice
where any thing taken good management is meant- Why was it that so
recognized as such_ was thus openly violated without
indisputable and obvious a rule of prudence was thus openly violated, without
so much as a pretence?-

The visit paid, the facts ascertained, report
drawn up, the result is whispered to Lord Pelham.
His Lordship starts out of his sleep. What does he
then?_ Does he change the system? Does he bethink
himself of law? of engagement? of a system of unintermitted
inspection? of appropriate separation and aggregation?
of universal industry? Does he occur to him
to transfer the undistroyed remnant from the clutches
of their distroyers to the hand of a guardian already
named by Parliament? of a keeper acting under thousands
of eyes? of a life insurer who would lose £50 and
more by every escape- £100 and more by every death?
of a system & a person he had so often been reminded
of by higher persons, who as often dismissed with tokens
of pretended approbation, and manufactured smiled?
In this way, or in any other way, does he make, or
for a moment think of making, any the smallest change
in the system of management? or rather of destruction
carried on under a pretence of management-? No:
he employs a gentleman to look at it. Does he abate
the nuisance?_ No: he creates a place. A page or two
and we shall see what sort of a place, and what the
object, and what the fruit of it.

An Act is necessary. The visit is on the 16th
of March, and already on the 24th the Act has passed
the sceptre. There is a time for all things. When is
the time for waking?_ when a place is to be created.
When is the time for sleeping? When Parliament is to
be

Identifier: | JB/116/637/002 "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	637	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d51 / d52
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	38170
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