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1793-8-16

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itself, and they not resident, substitutes a single individual like myself.
By an article which I took care to insert, I am subjected, as Your Lordship
may have observed, to be removed or censured by the Court of King's Bench
in a most summary way, at a minutes warning and by the terms of that
article, should I ever recede from any of my engagements, whether as to
those points in which the neighbourhood as such would be interested or any
other, there is not that individual so obscure, who might not make his
appearance in Court, in person and without any expence, and face to
face call me to account for the failure.

But along with the good company (it may be supposed)
may come bad: and will come were it only to visit their friends in
durance. — No such thing my Lord — see them they may indeed, but
not hold the smallest converse with them, unless I please: such is
the construction of the building. No man who does not come
decently clad, will be admitted: every man will be liable to be
searched, were it only that he may not conceal any instruments of
hostility or escape: every man will be liable to be questioned as
well as searched if I or mine see cause : nor can any man get in
at all without presenting himself to his Examiners. To the officers
of the Police the establishment will be open of course, and thither
they will come at times not foreknown, if there be any prospect of
prey, while to a Malefactor who is once within my gates, escape
will be impossible. Under these circumstances will a man whose
conscience accuses him of a crime come and plunge himself into the
Net? — Impossible. — He has every thing to fear, and has nothing to
gain by it. — In Newgate and other prisons upon the common footing
containing criminals as yet untried men of similar characters cannot be

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Date_1	1793-08-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
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