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13 Sept. 1812
To Ld Sidmouth

Want of inspection is the considerable and ever
acknowledged cause of everything that is amiss: and
still, my Lord, is an uninspectable prison to be preferred
to an inspectable one?

A man the spotlessness in whose instance even in the
in the very act of trusting him Honourable Gentlemen
were even forward to acknowledge make their acknowledgements
on condition that the practical inference which
in every other instance all other instances is made from such acknowledgements should not be made drawn from it – a man who
but for the course taken to deprive him of this as of all
other plans would
on all points on which the secret arbiters of his fate could
not deprive him of the faculty of rendering himself approved
has on this very ground been for these 34 years been a tried man, and
but for the most undisguised injustices and breach of
faith would, on this very point, have been so for these 16 or
18 years
a man whose zeal for the in the service of his co mankind
and of his country if his country disdain not to be a part of mankind
has been proved by the earliest possible sacrifice of
all professional prospects and with how little soever fruit
for of which want is it to pass to those who for want of his will want perhaps even the places to dance
by the close and unremitted labour of little less than half a century,
a man who though howsoever trodden upon on his own, has in
perhaps almost every other part of the civilized world as upon occasion he would prove, one object of
such sentiments as the mention of would not from his own
pen be endurable – is be if it his after be after all to be
put aside, and at the expence of an openly acknowledged breach of
faith by Act of Parliament, with his name in the title of it, as unfit to be trusted bear my part even with the management of a Jail, is he after all in conclusion to cast himself in
vain upon your Ld Sidmouth's justice?

Identifier: | JB/118/448/001 "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	448	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b14 b2 / e2 e14
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::draft; not included in letter 2190, vol. 8; "omitt at least at first" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	39502
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