JB/118/435/001

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10 Sept. 1812
To Ld Sidmouth

– Mr B. is perhaps a good well-meaning man,
at lea for the present at least: but what will be his
successors?

My Lord – if I am what I ought to be, such
as I am will my successors be. My practice,
my rules, will be public: the instant they cease
to be so, out with me. Being public, what there
is good in them, will be as so many laws to any
successors: whenever to any successor of mine it
happens to swerve from any of those god good laws
out with him.

But no: to form a pretence case for the intended breach of faith
in the first place imag the existence of misconduct in every
imaginable shape the future existence of misconduct
is assumed – and then thereupon another assumption is –
the impossibility of all remedy.

My Lord, of my supposed successors thus much
at any rate is known, or at least may be known,
viz. that they are will be insulated, unconnected individuals
without anybody to protect or screen them
in case of misconduct: as in the other case what is known
of the intended managers is that they be a detachment
of the ministry, to whom the appeal will be to themselves
against themselves.

Identifier: | JB/118/435/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	6
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	435	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b10 / e10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	draft; not included in letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39489
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