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Such as the Letter skews, has been the neglect.
From misconduct they eye turns naturally and not
improperly to consequences. Strike out consequences-
say that no evil consequences either have followed or
are in a way to follow, ever thing almost is as
it should be. The only practical inference is that
the place either ought never to have been created,
or ought now to be abolished. Either it never had
a use or the use it had is at an end.
But the neglect had not been without its
consequences. I give a specimen- I can give no more.
Strip them of nine-tenths of their abominations,
the Hulks_ Lord Pelham's Hulks_Lord Pelham's and
Mr _______'s Black Holes- would in this Country
and at this time of day be-what Bastiles were.
Complaints, like men, escape out of them now &
then- escape out of them through negligence. The
Letter of which the following is the extract, is from
the least horrible of the two receptacles: from that
one, in which, upon an expected visit, some
were found fair: from that one which not having
distroyed so many as an eighth or its inhabitants
in a year was and perhaps is Montpelier to the
other. A letter from the Hulks! says somebody: a
notable piece of evidence indeed! and by when pray
and to whom written, and for what purpose? By
one of the imprisoned wretches, to a friend in a
situation but too similar- a prisoner in a jail in
one of the distant provinces. Not official, my Lord-
not a Report this, it must be confessed. Under your Lordship,
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panopticon versus new south wales |
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correspondence |
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d69 / d70 |
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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 |
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