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11 Apr. 1802
Dispensing power
The letter, according to your comment explanation interpretation of upon it
went to deprive the Penitentiary House of its inhabitants
altogether: and thence, as you say according to you, to frustrate
the instructions designs and usurp the power of Parliament.
Yet after all according to your own shewing
the practical result of this very same letter, is – the
giving you no less th a number than 2150
for the measure of your Penitentiary House: a
th number more than double to that which, by
your own shewing, the Treasury stood engaged to
give you: and though for the sake of round
numbers or on the considerations that number
was indeed afterwards reduced – still on the 20th of Feby 1800 four months after this letter it
stood as high as 2000 – the exact double of the
number originally asked and granted.
My Lord in point of fact I admit, as above the
observation to be a true one: but my answer
to it will I trust not be an unsatisfactory one to it is extremely simple. Charging criminality
in the design, I do not take upon me to charge
consistency or so much as common sense in the
course of argument or conduct taken in pursuit of it. The
reasoning – the doctrines – the portraying are such as
your Lordship has seen: they are not the less so,
for whatever any thing that may have been added about numbers.
The reasoning came from one source: the numbers
from another. The reasoning, was nature: the genuine pure
product offspring of the cerebellum of Mr King: the numbers were
from
Identifier: | JB/121/470/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
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"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.
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