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To the gentleman himself it would have seemed,
that in making any such offer he knew what he
was about : — but the "great person" would have known
better things . The more beneficial to the public he
had , in his own view of the matter, made his terms ,
the more appalling the scorn with which he might
have been looked down upon , by the intuitive and
supercalculative wisdom of such high personages : —
after learning from one great person that his terms
were too high , he might learn from another that
they were too low ; or from each of them that they
were too high and tyd too low at the same time: —
and if on any other occasion he had evenr been guilty
of thinking for the public this too might have been
numbered among his "flights". —

What will become of the worthy Magistrate
whose existence , to judge by the terror he seems to
be in of being prosecuted for flattery , seems to depend
upon the breath of the great person's nostrils ? If a
wish to submitt to a limited deduction from a sum
of £12000 a year for maintaining a 1000 prisoners
creates doubts of sanity what mercy can there be for
an offer to maintain 200 prisoners or thereabouts
for a sum of £400 a year — not plus but minus.
How much longer will great persons suffer him
to go about without a keeper ? I see him tremblingly
alive all o'er : — I see Your Lordship trembling
for him in mere sympathy : I hasten to present tell him so upon the very best authority . Your Lordship can shew him a much more "beneficial "way" of "expending from the public purse" the interest of double the money : desire him only to look at the next article where instead of £4000 once paid for correcting an abuse — he may see a still greater abuse and of exactly the same kind - and £350 a year paid for looking at it and screening it . Your

Identifier: | JB/116/632/001"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	632	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d41 / d42
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	38165
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