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24 Aug. 1802

9 July 1800

undergone, and at any time of life it was a matter an accusationI could not submitt to to
see a measure held up for so many years as a definitive
one converted in this way into a measure of experiment
I was asked what difference it could make to me, reasoning
as I should of course the most liberal compensation for
every reduction that should be made.

My answer was 1. That I saw no reason
whatsoever for saddling the public with any such burthen that
I did not choose to be instrumental because be made an instrument of a burthen
to the public in any shape:—that adequate compensation
was in the nature of the case impossible: that it was not the
Treasury had not at that time any legal power for affording
any on any such ground—that it did not appear to me
that any good ground for any such expence could be made
to Parliament that in comparing with the establishment under upon
any scale howsoever reduced—the idea of compensation
was altogether new to me—and that whatsoever might have
been my willingness to accept of it I had never desired
the least symptom appearance of any dispensation to afford it to me.

Upon this both gentlemen joined in expressions of
astonishment, that for a moment I could suppose the
intention that any such reduction was not intended
to be accompanied with compensation. Direct Assurance of
such compensation was too weak a mode form for the expression
of the original and avowed determination taken on that
topic. The precise words I do not recollect: but the
manner was magisterial and to the last degree impratical.
The idea was—that that blindness—not
to say wilful blindness—absurdity—perversity were the
causes of my not seeing if it were that were really true which
was scarce credible viz: that I did not see that from the
first to the last no idea of reduction unaccompanied with compensation was ever
entertained

Identifier: | JB/121/339/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-08-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon versus New South Wales
Folio number	339	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Notes public		ID Number	001
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