JB/118/059/002

Click Here To Edit

34

a Spot which was not a proper one, or Person,
standing in the Relation of your Memorialist —,
might find it Physically impossible, for him to
carry into Execution any Engagement he might enter
into for the purpose. On a Spot which —
appeared to him, to a certain degree, not a
proper one, it wod be a breach of probity
as well as prudence, to take upon him any
such Engagement. Could he be called upon to —
engage for maintaining Prisoners, on a Spot
where in his Judgment he could not keep them
alive.' — On a Spot, where the means he could
collect would not suffice to keep them.' — On
a Spot, where (as was the Case on Board the
Hulk at Langston Harbour) every sixth Man of
them would Die in the compass of a year.' On
this Ground alone therefore, if there were no
other, your Memorialist, supposing a new Spot
to be proposed, has, by the very nature of the
predicament in which he stands, a necessary —
negative upon the Choice: and this Negative he
humbly begs leave to exercise, once for all, upon
every other Spot that has or can be thought of.

29.
No agreement,
preclusive of such
a choice, can have
been made on
the part of
administration—

Your Memorialist would not be much
surprised, if, in consequence of one of those misconceptions
into which, where the affections are Engaged, we are so apt.

Identifier: | JB/118/059/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	29
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	059	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f33 / f34
Penner		Watermarks	coles
Marginals		Paper Producer	patrick colquhoun
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 988, vol. 5	ID Number	39113
Box Contents