JB/118/432/001

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10 Sept. 1812
To Ld Sidmouth

Too much power for an individual, too much
power to lodge in an individual hand! In the
mouth of a man who ever set two feet in parliament
who ever set foot in office, who was bestowed upon
either situation the slightest glance is it possible
that it in the present instance in such an objection there should be anything
of sincere or so much as serious sincerity, or so much as seriousness?

In my hand too much power! in the hand of
an obscure individual destitute of all political connection
destitute of all support the mass of power too great
for endurance! a man whom for those twenty eighteen
years past all his power has never been able to pocket
from one of the most notorious and flagrant barefaced oppression and
breach of faith ever witnessed!

Yes to be sure of of a species of an establishment of which the
characteristic is unexampled transparency is the distinguishing
characteristic were a malefactor's den a den of Cacus
into which the light of day were never to penetrate.
In such a case state of things most assuredly all the power that a
man saw above him would be against all manner
of malpractices of which he might be disposed to make render that
den to some be a check and security but was but too
manifestly insufficient.

Identifier: | JB/118/432/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	432	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b7 / e2 / e7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft; not included in letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39486
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