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3 Apr. 1802
Dispensing power
After so many instances manifestations of the ha as Your Lordship has seen
of the habit which habitual propensity on the part of the conspirators are were in of taking advantage
of their own wrong for the effecting of their guilty illegal and eventual purpose, it would
be the less wonderful and much more excusable if this wrong to in trying
to save themselves they were to take advantage of the folly – the confusion⊞1 ⊞1 that pervades this letter, and endeavours to extract from it a sort of presumptive evidence, of the want of criminal consciousness on the part of the persons concerned in it and shame of the non-criminality of it.
A speech or a paper – may in itself be an
But this subterfuge will as little serve them as any other. I
may observe one, yet the design at the bottom of admitt as much confusion as they please: but nothing follows from
it may be a clear one. it in disproof of guilt. I admitt in this letter not only those the design to
impress confusion upon the minds of their eventual judges, but
as much confusion as they please in the head that give it birth.⊞2 ⊞2 But this admission will be of no sort of use to them. A design is one thing: the language held upon occasion in prosecution of that design, is another. In the present instance, the language, the clear or confused arguments as employ'd as means of prosecuting effecting the design, as they please: – but the design itself as clear as possible.
In obscurity of Mr King the deputation of the Duke of Portland may
vie with that of Ephraim Jenkins: but in transparency, ultimate
transparency of design it is not inferior to it. The
pretects to be picked in this case are not quite so
easy to be counted as in the others if the number may be reckoned. Those of the
contributions to the Poor Rates – Mr Wise's – the
occupying tenants of the Salisbury Estate – and though
last not least plundered – that of the unfortunate author
of the plan, converted by Mr King and Mr Long
into the "project" about the Penitentiary House Establishment.
The involving every thing in clouds is was from the first among
the arts relied upon for the consummation of this
plan which unhappily is something more than a
project – the Treasury plan of the Treasury for defeating the
Penitentiary Establish plan or project which it was their duty to carry into effect. The more perplexed a
business, the less the danger in the first place that Parliament would so much as
take cognizance of it take it up to look at – in the next place that it
should bestow attention enough upon it, to see through it,
to the bottom of it.
I do not
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