JB/117/277/001

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J.B. to Treasury

18 Jany 1811

Letter II

Be the nature of the establishment what it may
no great advantage to it can reasonably be expected
from any such circumstances as that of a mask token of
disesteem imprinted cast in the character of him under/to whose whose
management it is placed entrusted.

In the year 1792, eighteen nineteen years ago, when
you first gave in your proposal for the establishment
1000 being the number stipulated for in your proposal,
we hoped and it was our hope and expectation, to find in
you qualities of all sorts moral and intellectual
adequate to the management of the whole. The nineteen
years that have elapsed since have indicated warned
to us the us of the danger should bring on the that would be brought upon
public by any government administration which should continue
to give so large a share of confidence. Proceeding
with the caution the necessity of which has been imposed
upon us by a fuller knowledge of your character
we now entrust you as your and even now not without
great hestitation venture to trust you with half that
measure of confidence of which your muddle up
had rather too with too little circumspection been
thought capable of being entrusted with.

There was a time when it was thought and
hoped and thought that you might have been trusted
with the whole. But that time is no more: and now
such as you have been proved to be by your conduct for these
last nineteen years, the half of that whole is quite as much as
the prudence so
necessary in our selection
will endure
our trusting you with

Identifier: | JB/117/277/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1801-01-18	Marginal Summary Numbering	17
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	277	Info in main headings field	jb to treasury
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2100, vol. 8	ID Number	38894
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