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13 Sept. 1812
To Ld Sidmouth

For strengthening the foundations, the next thing to be done
was to To prove some manifest the impartiality and candour of Honourable
Gentlemen; and accordingly a confession was made that in those plans as yet every
acknowledging in substance that in those receptacles everything in those plans is not yet, exactly as it should be.

Upon the present plan (Third Report p.144) .... "those
"persons" (it is said) "must be expected to return into society with more
depraved habits and desperations ....

But when the remedy a panacea is at hand, the more desperate the
disease, for the reputation honour of the Physician at least so much the better.
"Such Alterations and corrections as will in a great degree lessen
to which the intimation of it is the "if not altogether remove the evils" .... Such are the words⊞
⊞ in and by which an intimation thus consolatory is conveyed.

Now my Lord what is this panacea? Oh my Lord
considering who the Physicians are, an answer is almost
superfluous a superfluity – Offices! – Offices! The Yes, my Lord: the of offices
promised, with the expences attached to them innumerable. To begin with a are innumerable. A few thousand a year in
offices (p.148.): of in formation, is it still tardy? a few thousands a year
more to quicken it; and so on till it the cure is perfected ....

It is a Yes, my Lord: it is among the maxims with of Honourable Gentlemen, that if any in an establishment of this sort anything is amiss, it is
for want of offices. It is among their postulates, that every man who
is paid for doing duty will do it in perfection, provided the hands reality of
patronage, and show of superintendence, is in the hands of Honourable Gentlemen,⊞ ⊞ whose whole time is demanded for higher duties, and who have neither interest in, nor affection other than that of contempt for this law business, the inspection
occasional only, instead of being, as in Panopticon uninterrupted
unremitted, and above all, provided that neither the inventors
of the Panopticon system, to whom the faith of government
has for these twenty years been pledged, nor anybody that would have come after them, shall
have anything to do with it.

Such is the purity of Honourable Gentlemen, such is even
their simplicity – the species of interest constituted by patronage,
coupled or not coupled with irresponsible power, is a
among the species of sinister interest, which such in their party such they have no conception of.
even their simplicity – Honourable Gentlemen may of have
hand of or at least never could frame to themselves a concept
of.

Identifier: | JB/118/396/001 "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	396	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	39450
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