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presumption in regard to will — the clearest proof
of a disposition at least, not to grudge exertions
toward the application of a remedy, howsoever that
disposition might be overruled by other circumstances.
From the mere circumstance of a man's having
given information of a mischief, the conclusion is
certainly far enough from being a necessary one, that
whether obtainable or not obtainable, he would himself
be a fit person to be employed in the application
of a remedy. A person so circumstanced is
however the first person the idea of whom would
naturally present itself in that view, supposing him
not set aside by other specific considerations. I mean
always in the eye of any official person, to whom
the cure of the mischief was either the sole object or
so much as the primary object in view. To a mind
comtemplating the subject in any such point of view
a man, in whose instance such primâ facie
evidence of fitness had manifested itself, would naturally
present himself as standing first upon the
list of candidates.

Principles standing thus, now as to facts. Of
two persons competent in the highest degree to do the
business — men above all exception — willing to do the
business, in at least one instance (for they had done
it in one instance) indication had been given by
experience. Inspectors spontaneous, zealous, gratuitous;
two for this one office. The place being to be made
was it offered to either of these gentlemen? — was
it offered to Sir Henry Mildmay? — was it offered to




Identifier: | JB/116/639/001
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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

639

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d55 / d56

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

38172

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