JB/118/093/004

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Even had "proper" been the only word, the conclusion
would have been still the same. In a spot which was
not a proper one, a 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 would 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 her 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: &
this negative he humbly begs leave to exercise once for
all, upon every other spot that has or can be thought
of.

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/118/093/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	093	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f31 / f32 / f33 / f34
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39147
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