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2 Apr 1802
Dispensing Power
to his own notions – his own independent and superior notions
– of expediency. The actions on this head
are – that nothing short of "absolute necessity" can
render it otherwise than "very independent, to move"
any of those untransportable Convicts "from the County
"Gaols": that is, to do what on this head the Act "requires"
to be done.
Consult
So well informed is he on the subject, and therefore
so decided that he is not satisfied without giving his
reasons: which reasons together with some sort of explanation
if there, Your Lordship has seen in another
place.⊞ ⊞ § 8 F.9 Note [1] A good Gaol in town A single One Gaol in town, upon the⊞ ⊞ Panopticon plan, good or bad, would be enough to make
all the Country Gaols bad: and if the good Panopticon Panopticon Gaol were built erected
where Parliament "requires" it to be erected, the expence
of it would be borne by the funds pointed out for that
purpose by Parliament, instead of the funds by which it
is borne at present. These results he looks upon is "inclined to think" would be
"very inexpedient" ones: and therefore it is
that he determines to do what depends upon him
towards preventing them from taking place. Parliament,
he thus finds, requires a controul, and that
controul he is determined it shall find, in the wisdom
of Mr Baldwin, and the power of the Duke of
Portland.
Parliament is not the only authority by for which
this controul is requisite to be applied. He sits the Judges
before his eyes: he considers
what
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