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11. That in addition to the above expedient the delay itself, should, after it had been spun out to a sufficient length, be employed as a pretext to final relinquishment together with any other with any other more plausible present though neither supported nor capable of being supported by proof — such as the flourishing state of the New South Wales establishment — the improvement made in the Country Jails — and so forth. —

12. That, as a means of weakening my resistance, and compleating my ruin with the trouble, by inveighing me into the exchange of a good claim for a bad one, a prospect of "compensation" in the event of the "relinquishment" of the plan, should, at a time when my spirits might be expected to be sufficiently broken & subdued, beheld out to me: — in which case, the realising of such proposal being in truth impracticable — not only from the nature of the case, but even from the want of legal powers, the consequence would be — that, while the release thus obtained from me would put an end to the original engagement a pretended discovery of the impracticability would put an end to compensation. —

Whether, in so simple a catalogue of ways and means, there was so much as a single article left unemployed, the references, given in the margins for that purpose, may serve to shew. —

a most happy circumstance for this plan was that in the situation which gave birth to it no accident intrinsic or extrinsic - no want of common sense in the plan itself nor any want of common attention or dexterity in the execution of it could render in the thing less than compleately adequate to its intended purpose. The death might be a violent or a lingering one: the coup de grace given with a better or a worse

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	25-28
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	207	Info in main headings field	narrative
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f15
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	38824
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