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upon it thou ready-prepared smiles which Your Lordship
has treasured up in store for it to be dealt out to it
in regulated measure , so long as the projector lives ,
or till a warrant can be found for converting pi prudential
smiles into undissembled frowns : - a warrant
such as the precedents of office may without much
difficulty be made to furnish — "the length of time" (for
instance) "that has elapsed" , or the informality and
intemperance displayed by adversions such as these.

In what degree , if in any, death may in that
superb and roomy Jail , spite of every relief that the attention
of a humane keeper can bestow , have been the fruit
of all this crowding and all this misery , it has not
fallen in my way to learn . On board the Hulks the sort
of attention which his Grace and his Noble Successor
have bestowed upon the subject — the attention of crowding
those receptacles likewise with Convicts designed for
the Penitentiary House by Parliament , has not been
without its fruit : but of this fruit , sweet , I suppose,
to the taste of those who cultivate it , bitter I should
have supposed to the taste of any , every man who has any sense
remaining either of humanity or justice , the description
which has just reached me called for another station
under the resumed title of the Hulkes . -

Besides the abovementioned , inconveniences the
plan for thus forcing the County to fill itself with
County and other local Penitentiary Houses upon the
gallynot scale he's open to two objections . — One is , that
the Counties (as has been already hinted) will not all
of them suffer themselves to be thus forced . Another is ,

Identifier: | JB/116/628/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	628	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d33 / d34
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38161
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