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9 July 1802
N.S. Wales Conduct
VI Causes

Pitt differently
chargeable, in
respect of this Colony
as two different
epochs.

In regard to this mass the conduct of Mr Pitt that Ex-Minister in relation
to this his "improved" colony, I must beg of Your Lordship
to distinguish between two degrees of depravity features of it, and degrees of depravity, as manifested
at two widely distinct distant epochs. The first is consists in in the free
determination taken to give birth to such a sense of abomination,
some avoidable practice preventable perhaps others unpreventable
avoidable and unavoidable.[+][+]incapacity in the
parallel to that
degree manifested
afterwards by the
same hands (for
beyond them the force
of incapacity can
no further go) in the attempted foundation
of the home
Colony by the Poor
Bill. This had for its cause, nothing
worse than incapacity and negligence carelessness though both in
the manifest degree extreme. The other feature is the pretending to believe
that system of matchless depravity to be a good one,
fancy it a good one knowing it to be no such thing
in full face and in face and full view of all its their abominations: and thus
for the sake of the pretence of setting aside, and corrupt influe from a corrupt
on the ground of corrupt and secret grounds,
motives of private corruption which I am prepared to prove
the very system which, at his own instance, had received
the repeated sanction of Parliament, and of the goodness of which
he was so well convinced all along in his own heart no doubt and had ever been feigned so much as
made it his .

As to his successor, in what degree and in what
thought prudent avoidable by them to become or less
... in their guilt will be rather of
subsequent and separate inadequate investigation, in a proper place.

For the first period is a period of comparative innocence.
on the part of Mr Pitt. There was existed not at that time as
yet on the part of Mr Pitt any of that—or at least in
any thing near so high a degree as afterwards any of that
sort of criminal consciousness, which in French is called mauvaise
for—in Latin and Law-Latin mala fides—and of which I wish we were as much without
an example as without a name. It was only in the
second period that he became on this occasion without
possibility of doubt, what on so many other all occasions. I have by
nine years sad experience found him to be.

As to his successors, in what degree and mode it has been
thought advisable by them to become sharers partakers in his guilt will be
matter of subsequent and separate investigation in a proper place.

Upon this I have
my mind change to
tha
[+]incapacity

in the attempted

Identifier: | JB/116/202/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-07-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	202	Info in main headings field	n. s. wales
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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