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26 Jany 1812
Panopt. Paul
Page 47. line . The Governor is directed to buy the best
meat, the best wheat, and other articles of consumption
in the market. Here the worthy Baronet and the is I
are at issue: and notwithstanding all his probity
and all his zeal, both which are altogether out of doubt
I do beg have will venture to put it to every man by whom
either enlightened humanity or justice are at the same time respected
and understood, whether justice to the public
purse or justice to the unoffending poor, justice to the overloaded
people of the rich indeed but heavily loaded country, – whether
professing with such principles of management as in it is
possible for a man to be fit for the management of any
concern that is to be carried on at public office expence.
That if without prejudice to life and health any Reforms
can be made That men howsoever unoffending are
maintained not by the fruits of their own industry, but
by the fruits of the industry of others, taken by compulsion
from those others, ought not to fare so expensively luxuriously
as those others – no not even those who to the
character of the most perfect purity the add the claim of the
most perfect helplessness is one position which I have had
ventured to submitt to the public, on the simple ground
of its own reasonableness. That again, and on the
same supposition, men who on the score of delinquency
and for the purpose of punishment are placed in a situation
in which, the at the expence of and by a form put upon the
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