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14 Feby 1802 Before F 3 §8 Establishment increased
In the title of this Section, Your Lordship sees at 3 Beginning, end,
& final case of
the business shewn
by the title of the
section
once the commencement of this branch part of the business —
the termination — and on one part on the part of the higher powers the final cause
of it: an augmentation granted: had the grant employ'd
by the grantors themselves as a pretence for crushing the establishment
instead of increasing it: and the intended destruction not
only the result of the pretended increase, but the very object [which they had in view] for the purpose of which they announced it.
In the and ever memorable confusion Increase of the
Establishment to
2000 started
and not disapproved
of in the first
conversation with
King in Decr 1798
of (I had almost said so far forgot myself
as to say conference) of Decr 1798 — in the
moment of effervescence and reciprocal expansion (reciprocal as I
fondly thought it) I that took place during the honeymoon,
or rather honey-minute, of our the inauspicious
union of two such ill-paired minds — a topic
was started — I scarce remember by which of the interlocutors th
by the destined victim or the self predestinated executor
— that of the numbers to which the
building was to be adapted: and consequently the from whence resulted by implication
and without any express mention of it, the consideration of the question of the
allowance for the expence. of it To increase add any thing the
numbers of convicts, the Con which the Treasury should be stand bound
to fund for me, was certainly never
mentioned — a proposition never <add>so much as mentioned on either part:</add> for
on my part it would not so much as have been
accepted. could any such offer have been expected: were it possible it should have been made:
but what did not appear to me too much either to expect,
or to prepare was the — the enlarging the [+] content of the building
to a degree adequate
to the eventual reception
of such greater number,
as, number
physically capable of being provided for if supplied, to an
equality
with the number that,
calculating from
past
experience,
would otherwise have been provided for, under
systems that, by
Parliament at least, had
been deemed less
eligible.
eligible.
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