JB/116/597/001

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Letter 3

22 Decr 1802

So much for theory, now for Theory has been spoken of—now comes experience: so much for duty now
Your performance has been spoken of—now comes performance. Even upon
the face of the law, the duty is meagre and inefficient: and performance falls
short even of the meagre
so carefully
chalked out and narrowed
by the law.

At By the Act, at the commencement of every Session this Report is to be made.
On the 16th of Novr The Session commenced the first session after the appointment.
On the |^^^| of Decr the House adjourns and no such Report has
been ever made. At the very outset, the duty is not done—no
not even that meagre portion of beggarly account of empty duty that has been made
obligatory by the Act. When which that which is made
obligatory is left undone, can there be so much as a hope left for that whole with that which is made free
be done? is free? left free? When that duty which is attended with without expence
to the office is left undone, will that be done by him
the expence of which, if repeated with a certain degree of frequency done frequently would
eat out a great part of his recompense? would swallow up the only motive for acceptance?

I have no personal complaint against quarrel with the gentleman. I have not the honour of non personal knowledge of him Knowing no of him
except as of course far be it from me I speak now to say any. Finding him
established in ground which I had purchased—to clear the ground
of him? if it could be done or say belongs
rights to be of common right were by law.

A gentleman whose duty it was under Your Lordship and the Duke
of Portland and Your Lordship to have prevented the abuse and
who if he had not to avoid preventing the abuse wrote that
set aside the two Acts of Parliament by the letter which the D of Portland
enough to give and signature this
instead of preventing the abuse nurses it—he nurses it for
months and even years. He nurses it still it appears
and then came the occasion for recommending a friend to look at
it. A friend and what friend? A gentleman whose whole time
had been already been brought for the public and twice over paid
for it: paid by one Act, now paid by another Act an Act made on purpose.
Two Acts made for one gentleman: both of them at the instance of
Your Lordship's Secretary both of them under Your Lordship's
auspices. One to overpay a man for Duke's business he was already paid
for which in his own estimation as proved by the very best evidence his own as by his acceptance he
had been paid enough already: another to call him off from that
to other business, pay and overpay still continued one for making him
more money: another for making him do less service.

Identifier: | JB/116/597/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-12-22	Marginal Summary Numbering	7
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	597	Info in main headings field	letter 3
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d14 / e54
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38130
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