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the whole island: who could answer for his not
consenting to charge himself with two or three
spots. Year after year he had gone through the
same sort of business gratis: who could answer
for his refusal to undertake for a portion of it,
for a price. Year after year he had done the same
sort of business without authority: who could say
that with or without ordinary recompense, he might
have accepted of that authority, the effect of which
could not but be to second in such a variety of
ways, his generous endeavours. Below-above-every
where- authority, even though it were without power,
is of use. Below, it commands information: above,
it gives a claim to notice.
Were then gentlemen, or either of them, so
much as consulted with on the choice?— Nor that neither.
How could they have been? Under the auspices
of Lord Pelham — under the administration of gentlemen
on t'other side the wainscoat — places are made for
gentlemen, not gentlemen searced out for places. Is
it not so? a page or two will for demonstrate.
Would there have been any thing wild, speculative,
incongruous, so much as unaccustomed in
a choice guided by considerations such as above suggested?
Let us look back a little. In the case of
Convicts Howard was the first investigator of the
system of abuse: Howard's was the hand first chosen
for the app hand first chosen for the application
of the remedy: I speak of the Penitentiary establishment
in its first intended shape. In a succeeding list
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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correspondence |
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d57 / d58 |
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john herbert koe |
1800 |
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1800 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7, and note 4 to letter 1824, vol. 7 |
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