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Dispensing Power

9 Apr 1802

II. Communicating.
Act of 1779
Hulk .

At the feet of Parliament I am content to be:
my pride has always been to humble myself before the
law. But at the feet of Mr Pitt or the Duke of
Portland I never did nor ever can be. To My
Sovereign I have never cared to be from the hour of my birth been
a dutiful affectionate and quiet subject: but though
no tractor, I shall can never be otherwise than a rebel
to the autocracy Duke of Portland.

Suppose Give the existence to
of The Hulks—an
establishment by which
male convicts that
is almost all the
convicts my be
of according
to law in any number
there is an end of
the pretence for cramming
the Gaols: that
is of the only if
is for the preventing that
neglect of those which
as with the inconceivable
train of calamities of
which that possible calamity
is to be productive.

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The power
thus assumed over
the Hulk System
was necessary to
the plan he rested
on for starving
the Penitentiary House.

The treatment thus professed to be given to the Hulk system, is
not continuously given.

For this time the
The power thus assumed over the authority of Parliament in respect of
Their professions about the Hulk System is not made
wantonly: assumed: it is not assumed it nev though overright: the assumption of it is indispensable it is optional to his
purpose. Convicts, so long as they can be concerned "such as the Gaols can contain"
into any of the existing Gaols, are not to be moved (he says) sent into
the a Penitentiary House—why? because the Gaols
would remain unimproved and "neglected" and so forth
if any of such Convicts as the Gaols can be made to contain were to be "moved out of them from the Gaols", the Gaols would
be "neglected", and so forth.+ But if this neglect of the Gaols is
to be the consequence of the moving of Convicts out of
those Gaols then what difference does it make, to this purpose
to which class the Convicts so moved belong, or
into what the place the is into which they are moved?
whether it be the a Penitentiary House or the a Hulk?
To abide by his principle—to avert the calamity of
which he pretends to be so apprehensive—he to keep the
Gaols as full at all times as they can hold—it is
necessary that all rival establishments would be to should be starved
and sacrificed alike: the Hulks, no less than the Penitentiary House.
Accordingly in the plan of distribution thus declared—
New South Wales the favourite Colony and the Home Jails are between them to have as much many
inhabitants as possible—the Penitentiary Houses as few
as possible and next to none and none at all in effect none—the
Hulks absolutely none—for they are thrown out of altogether.
They+

+ form no part
whatever of what he
declares he "understands
"to be the object of these
"Acts".

The convicts to
which this particular observation
is more particularly
applied are
indeed the second
of the two classes of
convicts only the
untransportable ones.

Identifier: | JB/116/013/002"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	013	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37546
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