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13 Sept. 1812
To Ld Sidmouth

The answer, of course, was not satisfactory: if it had been,
there would have been an end to the pretence for the town of
town of 600 House with the two or three hundred thousand pounds
worth of extra and needless expence attached to it.

Thus – and with such so delicate a touch as not scarce to have any
soil the on Honourable fingers – thus was Panopticon blackened. What remained
was – to whitewash the Hulks. All difficulties When
a thing is really to be done, all difficulties vanish.
There had been Rumours, to this effect the effect in question, there had been, it
is true: but these rumours (Parliament was to understand), were groundless. How as this
found? By refusing established? – In one or other of two ways: either by avoiding to hear evidence, or, after
having heard it, by supporting it. My Lord on the part of Honourable
Gentlemen had chosen to hear Accordingly in this paper,
which calls itself a Report on the Hulks, there is not a single
examination printed: no, nor a⊞ ⊞ no – not one iota
of information, in
⊞ of anything but
in that shape that sort of a thing
any shape but that in
which, where examini
it is to be had in the shape of
examination, it is to be had
is not fit information as the
Lord Chancellor declared
and protested
in Your Lordship's House
but t'other day,
is not, even under
the sanction of an
oath, fit to be
received as evidence. single My Lord,
had been convenient to have it, Honourable Gentlemen not been determined not to have evidence in the only shape
that is not palpably deceptitious, Honourable Gentlemen
knew well enough where it was to be had. I myself without,
ever having looked for it, could have named to them – in
person at least, I believe, on further enquiry several I am sure of, and if I do not misrecollect, persons
more than one, who to a gentleman an official person, a gentleman of character,
had confessed the practice, as habitual in his their own
instance, and with number, when he they would have named: –
Confront, my Lord, – do my Lord, be pleased have the justice to confront this silence, with the sort of interrogationess, exercised upon me, O Note whether the like were which, throughout the whole course of the
ever exercised up Report just quoted, was exercised upon me.

To that the Hulk system was tolerable, letters For a foundation, ground was to be made for the hope assurance
that, defective as it was is in its present state, was in its present state⊞
⊞ the Hulk System
is not even in its present state, so bad as to
be incorrigible: is not
so bad, but that it ought
to be preserved: which a measure
which
as much some persons,
who might require to be consulted, might have be have been apt to make
objections to, if, in the character of actually extensive the once abundant prevalent howsoever
for the present suppressed or not suppressed practices, are whose irregularities in question had been
suffered to come to light. Certificates and so forth, to prove of the capability of he system were obtained accordingly
in all the forms of regularity, were obtained and printed in the
printed from Appendix. Obtained and from where? – From all persons interested in possession or in hope
in the continuance and extension of it: certificates, some
it is true from neutrals, but others from official persons
bearing testimony to their own merits.

Identifier: | JB/118/395/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	395	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a14**
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	draft of enclosure to letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39449
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