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"so that they that can get things eat but little of
"the ship's allowance. This is a very bad place...
"it is impossible to live here long."

Well, Sir, but this correspondent of yours
who is he? None of mine my Lord: yet nor the less
but the more credible in his undesigned & artless tale.
Had the person written to been a person from whose
interposition any the faintest hope of relief could have
been connived, motives for exaggeration at least, if not
for absolute untruth might have been imputed, &
not altogether without cause. The fact is- written to
a sharer though not companion in affliction, as above
described, it fell by mere accident, though not without
sufficient authentication, into the hands of a
gentleman by whose permission the copy I have /the
original having been also in my hands] was obtained.

But his name, Sir? -No, my Lord: there your
Lordship will have the goodness to excuse me. I have
read Don Quixote, my Lord: I will not follow his
example. The scourge of the tyrant shall not be
brought down with redoubled force, by an interference
so powerless on my part, so inefficacious so much
worse than inefficacious elsewhere. To a Committee
of the House of Commons...Yes, my Lord, at any
time: not to his Majesty's Secretary of State, so long
as Lord Pelham continues his Majesty's Secretary of
State- least of all to the gentlemen behind the
wainscoat, so long as he continues on the other side
of the wainscoat. Of frank disclosure to Lord Pelham,
what could be expected to be the consequence? Let experience

Identifier: | JB/116/647/002 "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	647	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d71 / d72
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	38180
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