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20 Jany 1812
Evidence
Accordingly from thenceforth so far as concerns
personal acquaintance nothing could be more strictly true.
He was wholly unacquainted with the respectable individual,
and why? – perhaps that upon occasion he might have
to say so, and at any rate because he made a point
to keep himself so.
That with the character of the individual the
worthy Baronet was equally unacquainted he does not it not said
say: but "discretion and humanity" being in question
this and nothing less is what the argument requires
to be supposed supposed intended.
"It is only since I have been desired to appear
"before the Committee" (says the worthy Baronet in another
place) "that I have seen the designs of the Panopticon, or
"heard of the partly effected purpose of former Ministers".
It must be an extraordinary case indeed if this be not
to be added to the instances of his forgetfulness to the number
of facts which by in the prohibition in question had been lost their
place out of his remembrance: and if so it be that
he had never seen escaped from the dangers of the Panopticon in question and as also
from hearsay of the purpose in question it must have been
because both the sight seeing in the one case and the hearing
in the other were so far from agreeable being acceptable.
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