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' | <p>Will you <add>promise</add> make a promise to the Penitentiary<lb/> | ||
System that if on <add>calling upon</add> <del>putting the question</del><lb/> | |||
to those on whom <add>it</add> the business depends <del>calling</del><lb/> | |||
<del>upon</del> to <sic>shew</sic> cause why it is not established<lb/> | |||
no cause is <sic>shewn</sic> <add>nothing besides than what you have seen</add> you will then give me<lb/> | |||
Your <add>judgment in my favour</add> assistance. A promise this conditional<lb/> | |||
is what I would not give sixpence to exchange<lb/> | |||
would be worth quite as much to me<lb/> | |||
<add>for</add> as an unconditional one. You wish to<lb/> | |||
hear the other side—good: but do the other<lb/> | |||
side wish to hear you, or any man whose<lb/> | |||
wish it is to see justice done?—no: that they<lb/> | |||
don't. The fact is you have heard the<lb/> | |||
other side: for the four grounds of relinquishment<lb/> | |||
stated in Letter I are all that <del>ever</del> any<lb/> | |||
body has ever been able to say on the other side<lb/> | |||
<foreign>Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor</foreign> <!-- Ovid, Metamorphoses vii, 20 --><lb/> | |||
from first to last been the exact history of the<lb/> | |||
business. To M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Wilberforce, to Sir Charles<lb/> | |||
Bunbury to I know not who besides, L<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> Pelham<lb/> | |||
<add>has</add></p> | |||
<pb/> | |||
<p>from the first to the last professing or at least<lb/> | |||
insinuating his approbation of the Penitentiary System<lb/> | |||
<del>his disapprobation of the New South Wales system</del>.<lb/> | |||
By this means he save himself the trouble of finding<lb/> | |||
what was not to be found—something to say against<lb/> | |||
it. At the same time he was expressing his<lb/> | |||
disapprobation of the New South Wales system: another<lb/> | |||
trouble saved—that of finding what was not<lb/> | |||
to be found something to say in favour of it.<lb/> | |||
Ask your friend M<hi rend="superscript">R</hi> Addington, you will find<lb/> | |||
the subject unpleasant to hear: he will stave it<lb/> | |||
off with some general answer, or tell you he<lb/> | |||
has turned it over to M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Vansittart. Ask M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi><lb/> | |||
Vansittart you will find the subject equally unpleasant<lb/> | |||
to him. <add><del>By Sir</del> Even</add> | |||
<del>From M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Nepean, I<lb/> | |||
was informed that</del> About 4 months ago, M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi><lb/>Addington not knowing how</p> | |||
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Will you promise make a promise to the Penitentiary
System that if on calling upon putting the question
to those on whom it the business depends calling
upon to shew cause why it is not established
no cause is shewn nothing besides than what you have seen you will then give me
Your judgment in my favour assistance. A promise this conditional
is what I would not give sixpence to exchange
would be worth quite as much to me
for as an unconditional one. You wish to
hear the other side—good: but do the other
side wish to hear you, or any man whose
wish it is to see justice done?—no: that they
don't. The fact is you have heard the
other side: for the four grounds of relinquishment
stated in Letter I are all that ever any
body has ever been able to say on the other side
Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor
from first to last been the exact history of the
business. To Mr Wilberforce, to Sir Charles
Bunbury to I know not who besides, Ld Pelham
has
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from the first to the last professing or at least
insinuating his approbation of the Penitentiary System
his disapprobation of the New South Wales system.
By this means he save himself the trouble of finding
what was not to be found—something to say against
it. At the same time he was expressing his
disapprobation of the New South Wales system: another
trouble saved—that of finding what was not
to be found something to say in favour of it.
Ask your friend MR Addington, you will find
the subject unpleasant to hear: he will stave it
off with some general answer, or tell you he
has turned it over to Mr Vansittart. Ask Mr
Vansittart you will find the subject equally unpleasant
to him. By Sir Even
From Mr Nepean, I
was informed that About 4 months ago, Mr
Addington not knowing how
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