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Yes, my Lord, there was inspection enough for Portsmouth,
but there was none left for the Hulks. The
gentleman I have already said had connections at Portsmouth:
in that agreeable circumstance lay the
convenience of the choice: the prolific convenience
which gave birth to the Act of Parliament — and
through Parliament to the office. The gentleman had
connections in Portsmouth: should some future Secretary
be severe — in some contingent period of harsh
discipline, under some Pharaoh that knew not
Joseph, should each quarterly visit be insisted upon,
a persecuted Inspector — an Inspector driven to his duty
might under favour of that of that convenience take refuge
in the bosom of his friend. Persecution or not persecution,
these friends were to be and were inspected at
any rate; inspected in P person, let what would come
to the Police: as to the Convicts they were inspected
by proxy and their proxies whom they were saved
the trouble of appointing were there convenient
connexions.

Four miles further would have brought the
Inspector to the Langston Hulk: a few hundred yards
would have been enough to bring him to the Portsmouth
Hulk: humanity, official duty, recent engagement
— the positive injunction of an Act of
Parliament — all together could not prevail upon the
gentleman for these few hundred yards.

Suspicion, grounded soleley solely upon theory,
was enough to prompt enquiry, and, without disclosing
the most distant hint of my object, I
penned

Identifier: | JB/116/645/001 "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	645	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d67 / d68
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	ID Number	38178
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