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abuse, for the recommendation of the persons by whom
the semblance of a remedy was to be applied. The
gentleman whose duty it had been — first under the
Duke of Portland, then under Your Lordship — to have
prevented the abuse — (I speak of the individual abuse
— the barbarity & consequent mortality) to have prevented
it by drying it up in its source — I mean
the whole system of Hulk confinement — the gentleman
who to avoid preventing it sed set aside two Acts of
Parliament, by the Letter which the Duke was ill-advised
enough to give auspices and signature — this
gentleman, instead of preventing the abuse, re nurses
it: — he nurses it for months & years: he nurses
the mortality for a year and a quarter, and I
know not how much longer; — he nurses the source
of it, under Your Lordship to this day. He nurses
the abuse itself till it is ripe — ripe on the verge
of universal rottenness — ripe by the rotting of the
victims at a rate at which by this time they would
have been more than half killed off — he keeps
nursing it to this pitch of critical rp ripeness —
when lo! by a misadventure, converted by into his
ingenuity into a lucky hit, an occasion turns up
for reconne recommending a friend to look at it:
— to look at it, and, on pretence of correcting it, to
keeps it uncorrected. —

Thus, in an inferior hot-bed, an immature
felon (I have heard it said) is nursed till he is
become ripe: a felon worth but £10, till he is worth
£40. Those are pretty profits, fit for petty hands.
£350

Identifier: | JB/116/642/002 "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	642	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d61 / d62
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	38175
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