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7 Oct. 1811
Panopt. Rudiments for Observation Holford's Report

(J.B.s backsliding friends)
These gentlemen have
probably found some
arguments that have
had the effect of quieting
their conscience,
and rendering them
satisfied with themselves.
But such self-satisfaction
can not have been
administered, on any
other assumption than
the compleatly corrupt state of
that portion of society
by whom alone, redress
of such a
state of government
all redress was not
hopeless would have come
to be administered.

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Barbarity

Were they to hang J.B.
or transport him saying
he is a dangerous
man – the proceeding
would be more cruel
but it would not be more
compleatly unjustifiable
and indefensible.

This will help determine
whether this be
a government of tyranny
or of reason,
whether in the conduct
of government considerations
of reason and
justice have any share.

Breach of faith

Let any one try if
he can to imagine that
engagement under the circumstances of it which could
not be broken upon
grounds at least as
good as these.

If he Whoever not,
then understand thus
the question is not
merely whether the faith
of government shall be
towards the particular
individual be kept in
this individual case,
but whether those persons
in whose hands the government
of this country happens
to be placed, shall
be considered as
subject to the obligations
of good faith and morality
in any case.

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☞ The practicality – the
&c – mention
it only as matter of
suspicion – the Imbecillity
of Holford.
as confirmation of the
suspicion. Then put
it to and
H. of Commons to do away
the suspicion by
good faith &c.

Let Though at the brink
of the precipice, they have
not yet any
there let them stop &c.

Perfect civility and
even indulgence have
been th all along the
characters of the course
of proceeding that has
been observed in relation
to me him.

But though the razor
employed against me
has been (according to
the expression of )
a chosen one, it is to
cut my throat that it
has been employed: to
cut my his throat has been
the employment given
to it:

and against an article
that serious, no lawful
means of defence consistent
with truth and
justice can well be
looked upon.

Breach of faith.

A power
to relieve me from dispense with the
fulfilment of engagements,
equivalent to
the Pope's.

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Breach of faith.

Even immediately
the verbal &
virtual contract
the violation
would have been a proven
injury: the pretence
now made a barefaced
fraud.
How much more after
a 17 or 18 years
of perfidious delay &c?

If faith be this broken
with J.B. those who
break it will have no
rational ground for complaining
of breach of
faith to their prejudice
by anyone else.
to his
immediate.

Committee to perform
the office of Pope and
dispense with engagements.

What they are really
afraid of is not mismanagement,
but good
management.

If after 17 or 18 years
of deliberation no
engagement has thus
broken has much
more readily any
recent one?

If such the pretence
in question be a sufficient
one, on what
imaginable can a
pretence equally
sufficient ever be
wanting?

Identifier: | JB/118/238/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1811-10-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	238	Info in main headings field	panopt. rudiments for observations on halford's report
Image	002	Titles	barbarity / breach of faith / predetermination
Category	rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	39292
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