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"dispositive" will reamain — that "difficulties" will accumulate &
that this will go on, till all recollections are at an end — and
that this execution and indemnification for non-execution
will glide away together.

After the difficulties I have found in obtaining attention
for measures which I could speak of boldly as beneficial to
the Public, it may be imagined whether I can have confidence
enough left, for coming forward with claims, of a tendency
such as I could not myself represent as otherwise than purely
burthensome: and after having for such a length of time
been permitted to entertain prospects, such as those
delineated in the plan which the Committee have before
them, it is easier to conceive than express the reluctance
with which, were it even in my power I should see myself
fastened as a Dead Weight upon the Public I had hoped
to serve. As to terms, mine is not a Situation to make
terms. Were I to say I cannot do so and so upon such
terms, the answer might be — then it cannot be done at all.

Turning aside from what some in my Situation
might call Justice, considering what, if any things, in
the way of compensation retained a chance of being
found practicable, an Idea that occurred to me not
long ago was — that in the event of the Penitentiary
System's being proceded with, there might, perhaps be no
great objection to the turning over the convicts to me,
a little earlier than would otherwise be done, to be provided
for under the present plan, until the Penitentiary House
should be in readiness for their reception. As since the
passing of the Act of the 7th of July 1794, it was
impossible that the Persons now occupying the
Situation in question, should not have long ago

Identifier: | JB/117/098/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-06-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	098	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles	examination of jeremy bentham esqr / june 23rd 1798
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	38715
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