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to Mr Neild? The negative is but too nor notorious.
If in one of the two instances situation in life was
such as to exclude hope of acceptance, that could b
not be the case in the other.

Thirty years ago the indefatigable & gratuitous
Agent of the Charity for the relief of debtors, travelled
the first of circuits three years before even Howard
had begun his. I called Neild a second Howard:
with more propriety I called Howard a second Neild.
Howard sunk under a jail fever, Neild has survived
one. The exertrions of Howard have long since received
their quietus from above: Neilds seem but to increase
with age. Two such circuits in one year
adorn the annals of 1802. This Honourable Colleague
— a Member of the legislature and not an idle one —
a man standing already in full light — would derive
nothing like illustration from a hand like mine.

In a station like Your Lordships there have
been men that would have knelt to both these
gentlemen rather than not have gained one of them
for the office. In the instance of Mr Neild at
any rate, whether he would or would not have
accepted of the office would not be known, to a
certainty at least, without asking: accordingly he
was not asked. The experiment would have been
too dangerous: it was a case not to be trifled with.
Seeing how he had been occupying himself, and what
he lived for, would any prudent man have answered
for his non-acceptance? Yeer Year after
year his active beneficence had embraced and covered the

Identifier: | JB/116/639/002 "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	639	Info in main headings field
Image	002	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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