★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
"at the earliest opportunity :" the nex Wednesday following, Mr Adam
having desired an audience, gets one immediately, the Panopticon
plan is spoken of as a thing of his executing at Edinburgh and by
him, Mr Dundas congratulating him and speaking of the
satisfaction with which he shall see the progress of it there, in
September: while I the author, ten eighteen months after a proposal
from me had been given in, and three months after
an audience had been announced to me for the then next
week, am adjourned to an earliest opportunity which seems
to be rendered but the more uncertain as well as distant by
the fortnight which has elapsed in consequence. Either I am
mistaken, or when a man in favour is determined to crush
a proposal what he can find nothing to say against, this is the he does by it
exert sort of course which he finds it necessary to pursue he does by
it just exactly as Mr Dundas has done dealt by mine. [Crush it he may,
and certainly can: but I can must no longer sit still with my he may my submitting any longer
hands across to see it stifled] If these the testimony of appearances speak true & Mr Dundas chooses rather to
see corruption corrupted under Mr Campbell than reclaimed
and provided for for ever by me at a less price; the publick is without
remedy:
Identifier: | JB/541/350/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 541.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
1792-07-16 |
|||
541 |
|||
350 |
|||
001 |
|||
Correspondence |
|||
Jeremy Bentham |
|||