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'' | <p>be excluded, because before trial no man can be prevented from concerting<lb/>his defence with whosoever may present themselves in the character of<lb/>his friends: <del>can</del> neither can they be subjected to examination in the way<lb/>of questioning because such examination would be inconsistent with the<lb/>freedom of admission which is deemed essential to that purpose. No, my<lb/>Lord — the last place in which a felon at large will think of trusting<lb/>himself of his own accord, will be my Penitentiary House.</p> | ||
<p>Allow me here to mention a circumstance which in this<lb/>point of view may perhaps appear to Your Lordship tolerably conclusive.<lb/>If setting aside the contriver of the plan, one man<lb/>more than another should be supposed to have a just view of its probable<lb/>effects in this as well as other particulars, it should be M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>. Nepean,<lb/>who has had so much occasion to consider it. T'other day in <lb/>conversation, I <hi rend="underline">want a little bit of ground</hi> (says he) <hi rend="underline">in the country,<lb/>within reach of London to build a house upon: - do you happen to know<lb/>of any such thing?</hi> Yes, says I, <hi rend="underline">I do</hi>; <hi rend="underline">there is a board up, advertizing<lb/>ground to be let on a building lease, close to the premises, just<lb/>on the other side of the one of the roads that bounds them. Oh! is there?</hi><lb/>(says he) <hi rend="underline">then I will go and look at it: it's just the spot for me, its<lb/> vicinity to the Panopticon would be a recommendation to me.</hi></p> | |||
<p>No wonder indeed if people enough should be found, who<lb/>hearing that felons were to come <hi rend="underline">among</hi> them, as report might say, that<lb/>it is no great distance, and knowing nothing as yet of those circumstances<lb/>of the plan which could render that vicinity an advantage instead of<lb/>a prejudice should be more or less alarmed at it: now considering the<lb/>differences of mens tempers and casts of Character, it is possible to say<lb/> that there should be nobody who, even after hearing every thing that<lb/><add>could</add></p> | |||
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be excluded, because before trial no man can be prevented from concerting
his defence with whosoever may present themselves in the character of
his friends: can neither can they be subjected to examination in the way
of questioning because such examination would be inconsistent with the
freedom of admission which is deemed essential to that purpose. No, my
Lord — the last place in which a felon at large will think of trusting
himself of his own accord, will be my Penitentiary House.
Allow me here to mention a circumstance which in this
point of view may perhaps appear to Your Lordship tolerably conclusive.
If setting aside the contriver of the plan, one man
more than another should be supposed to have a just view of its probable
effects in this as well as other particulars, it should be Mr. Nepean,
who has had so much occasion to consider it. T'other day in
conversation, I want a little bit of ground (says he) in the country,
within reach of London to build a house upon: - do you happen to know
of any such thing? Yes, says I, I do; there is a board up, advertizing
ground to be let on a building lease, close to the premises, just
on the other side of the one of the roads that bounds them. Oh! is there?
(says he) then I will go and look at it: it's just the spot for me, its
vicinity to the Panopticon would be a recommendation to me.
No wonder indeed if people enough should be found, who
hearing that felons were to come among them, as report might say, that
it is no great distance, and knowing nothing as yet of those circumstances
of the plan which could render that vicinity an advantage instead of
a prejudice should be more or less alarmed at it: now considering the
differences of mens tempers and casts of Character, it is possible to say
that there should be nobody who, even after hearing every thing that
could
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