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Lordships auspices it is not the custom for gentlemen
in office make Reports: especially when paid for it,
& when Parliament has made it their duty in express
words. Not official certainty my Lord: gentlemen
if they did make Reports would not complain of
their own acts._

Omitting the effusions of the heart_the litter
tokens of remembrance- from one poor creature to
another- but especially, and most carefully, omitting
the names_I transcribe verbatim whatever bears
reference to the present purpose. Verbatim I say,
my Lord: literatim not. Spelling so quizzable, how
could facts could be credible? Of this argument, the
best the case admitts of - I have deprived, defrauded,
gentlemen and Noble Lords. Alas, my Lord, how many
hundreds of poor wretches had been in this world instead
of another_head been comparatively happy_had
been comparatively pure_if no worse logic than this
has paper from gentlemen on t'other side the waistcoat,
had passed upon Noble Lords?

"11th October 1802
"...I promised to write to you as soon I came
"here ,but could not so soon as I wished to do, for when
"I came here I was robbed of all my papers & pens
"and all that I had*... About 500 Convicts was drafted "on

*He does not say by whom robbed, whether by his fellow prisoners of by their Keepers. But if not by the Keepers but only by the prisoners, what, even on that supposition, must be the Keepers? Such care! such custody! Such crimes, such oppressions, close to them, all round them and no redress! In a Panopticon Penitentiary House could such things

Identifier: | JB/116/646/002 "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	646	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d69 / d70
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	38179
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