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11 Apr. 1802 Postpone Dispensing powers
Excuses
3. Crime unnecessary
Thus much as to the simple relinquishment of
the Penitentiary system. business. But for the Duke's (favour.
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A function for
the Gaol measure
would have been
still more hopeless.
The objection would
have been as above
with the additional
ones from the absurdity
of the measure.
succedaneum. his own] (favorite) measure about the
Gaols — that measure to which he has delar declared
his support without and against the authority
of Parliament. Your Lordship sees how much
more hopeless still it could not but have appeared been, than
the others the task it must have appeared in this
case than in the other, to have established the same
measure by authority from of Parliament.
The Hulk system (he would have had
to say) is not a good one: and thus far
he need not have been much in fear of gainsayers.
But then he would have had to say
I want a substitute succedaneum for it: I propose this
Gaol system of mine for that purpose. — A
succedaneum substitute? would some voice or other have cried out
immediately — why - have not you got one?
got one — got one from Parliament already!
The plan you now stand in, is it not the plan of
M<hi rend="superscript">r Dundas? Did not he, years ago, with M<hi rend="superscript">r
Pitt, at his elbow, assisting and assenting, at his elbow, come to Parliament with
a succedaneum, years ago, and obtain it? What
is become of it then? Is it established? if not,
why not? — The answers to these questions would
have been encompassed with involved the same difficulties as those which
have just been noticed as not easy to be encountered
and
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