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The date of my
Examination
but 3 days before
the Order
for printing the
Report will
serve to shew the
reluctance with
which it came:
or rather was
extorted from me,
My The great business/endeavour difficulty
was saying
but the truth
to avoid saying
the whole truth
and in short to
say as little as
could be said without
absolutely betraying my
own cause. Accordingly My
stud great care
throughout was
to impersonalize
and generalize
every thing. The
Committee seeing
that the business
would not altogether
bear enquiry,
and having
no more wish
to hear the examination accusations
than
I to exhibit proffer them.
took every thing
as it came: nor
did they suppress
a syllable. Had
such a man as
Mr Marsdan for example attended
he might
have made if no
fine
bad harvest out
of it. He might
have


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have got out of me
amongst other things
that Battersea Rise
was promised to
me five times over
two in those times
spontaneously and
officially — that
this had been alledged
by me over
and over again in
black and white,
and never controverted
— and that
when understanding
though from other
quarters that the pursuit
was hopeless,
I gave up the pursuit
of that spot
and proposed another,
even then all those
promises remained
unretracted. All this I have sent
in a sort of Journal with
pursuit, words, times and places.
He
would have got out
of my
Irish Letter thus
of


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of Lord Spencers, in
which his Lordship
after amusing me for
four months, informs
me that if I can
compell him to give
me Battersea Rise
then and not otherwise
he will give me not
the spot I can compell him
that spot to give me but another
which he others had offered
me of his own accord
he thus retracted.

One great use
of the Temporary
Establishment would
be the salvation of
the Country Convicts
by the last Returns
lying to the number
of between 4 & 500
in the Jails. Of
these I could find
means to secure
number even
before whole before the
Temporary Penitentiary
House
was put up and
thus save them from
the contamination
of the Hulks.


Identifier: | JB/117/055/003
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.

Date_1

1798-07-17

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

117

Main Headings

panopticon

Folio number

055

Info in main headings field

to rose brouillon

Image

003

Titles

Category

rudiments sheet (brouillon)

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

38672

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