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<p>2 Jan<hi rend="superscript">y</hi> 1802</p> | |||
<note>XVI. Improved prisons</note> | |||
<p>many are in Your Lordship's hand—grudge not a few<lb/> | |||
drops from it to save this worthy gentleman. If it<lb/> | |||
be in the power of virtue to give a claim to mercy<lb/> | |||
<del>to convert it into justice</del> has he not virtue to command<lb/> | |||
it? His faith, his hopes, his charity, do they<lb/> | |||
not all center in great persons?</p> | |||
<note>Remove for the benefit<lb/> | |||
<add>comfort</add> of his <gap/> and<lb/> | |||
<add>downcast</add> adoring eyes a corner<lb/> | |||
of the curtain that<lb/> | |||
covers and adorns <add>sanctifies</add> the<lb/> | |||
sanctuary.</note> | |||
<p>Speak to him then, my Lord, once more:—<lb/> | |||
say to him any thing that will make him easy.<lb/> | |||
Shew him how right and wrong depend upon existing<lb/> | |||
circumstances: whisper to him that all this Machiavelism<lb/> | |||
for throwing prisoners upon counties was a mere<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">make-believe</hi>: <del>assure</del> <add>satisfy him/<del>bear witness</del></add>, that nothing can be a matter<lb/> | |||
of more profound indifference <add>to any body</add> than it is to great<lb/> | |||
persons in what Jail, or Hulk, or improved Colony<lb/> | |||
and in what numbers, human creatures starve or prison<lb/> | |||
one another, so that there be not a "Panopticon for<lb/> | |||
"them to be sent to": <add>remind</add> <del>bid</del> him <del>observe</del> <add>+consider</add>, | |||
<del>that whether<lb/> | |||
improved or unimproved, no Jail, in the place <add>any such high place as</add> he has<lb/> | |||
in view, can ever rise up to give <gap/> to Noble<lb/> | |||
Lords, to noble and <gap/> <gap/><lb/> | |||
and <gap/> Lords, for whose <hi rend="underline">veto</hi> <gap/> is capable of<lb/> | |||
<add>strikes</add> striking a <gap/> <add>at any time</add> into <add>the hand</add> Acts of Parliament:</del> | |||
<add>assure</add> <del>satisfy</del> him,<lb/> | |||
that neither <add>by</add> the one great person, nor <add>by</add> any <add>other</add> | |||
<del>predecessor<lb/> | |||
of his in the same office, nor any colleague or predecessor<lb/> | |||
of a colleague in any neighbouring one <add>office</add>, has ever <note>put himself to any such trouble</note><lb/> | |||
<add>so much as harbour</add> harboured any risk <gap/> as that of taking the power<lb/> | |||
<add>ever thought of</add></del> | |||
<del>of</del> <add>is</add> the purse <add>ever taken</add> out of the hands of Parliament, unless<lb/> | |||
for a particular purpose, <add>and</add> <del>for example</del> to oblige a friend:<lb/> | |||
<add><del><sic>shew</sic></del> certify</add></p> | |||
<note><add>+</add> that in the place<lb/> | |||
he has in view<lb/> | |||
no <gap/> can by<lb/> | |||
any Jail, or any<lb/> | |||
number of Jails<lb/> | |||
improved or unimproved,<lb/> | |||
<del>can any</del><lb/> | |||
<del>umbrage</del> <add>come</add> be given<lb/> | |||
to Noble Lords, whose<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">veto</hi>, when they are<lb/> | |||
pleased to pronounce it<lb/> | |||
is so fatal to Acts of<lb/> | |||
Parliament.</note> | |||
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Letter 3
2 Jany 1802
XVI. Improved prisons
many are in Your Lordship's hand—grudge not a few
drops from it to save this worthy gentleman. If it
be in the power of virtue to give a claim to mercy
to convert it into justice has he not virtue to command
it? His faith, his hopes, his charity, do they
not all center in great persons?
Remove for the benefit
comfort of his and
downcast adoring eyes a corner
of the curtain that
covers and adorns sanctifies the
sanctuary.
Speak to him then, my Lord, once more:—
say to him any thing that will make him easy.
Shew him how right and wrong depend upon existing
circumstances: whisper to him that all this Machiavelism
for throwing prisoners upon counties was a mere
make-believe: assure satisfy him/bear witness, that nothing can be a matter
of more profound indifference to any body than it is to great
persons in what Jail, or Hulk, or improved Colony
and in what numbers, human creatures starve or prison
one another, so that there be not a "Panopticon for
"them to be sent to": remind bid him observe +consider,
that whether
improved or unimproved, no Jail, in the place any such high place as he has
in view, can ever rise up to give to Noble
Lords, to noble and
and Lords, for whose veto is capable of
strikes striking a at any time into the hand Acts of Parliament:
assure satisfy him,
that neither by the one great person, nor by any other
predecessor
of his in the same office, nor any colleague or predecessor
of a colleague in any neighbouring one office, has ever put himself to any such trouble
so much as harbour harboured any risk as that of taking the power
ever thought of
of is the purse ever taken out of the hands of Parliament, unless
for a particular purpose, and for example to oblige a friend:
shew certify
+ that in the place
he has in view
no can by
any Jail, or any
number of Jails
improved or unimproved,
can any
umbrage come be given
to Noble Lords, whose
veto, when they are
pleased to pronounce it
is so fatal to Acts of
Parliament.
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jeremy bentham |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
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