JB/121/435/001

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31 March 1802
§ Dispensing Power

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Excuses
2. Intention abandoned

But was not this letter (says Your Lordship) retracted
or somehow or other laid aside — and is not that
what you mean and thereby confess when you speak
of it as suppressed? Was it not in some other letter
that this resol from the Secretary of State's Office that formed the resolution of the Treasury
in consequence of which the Treasury letter was written to you
fixing on a less number viz: 2000 as the number
you were to build for? My Lord

Supposing the contents
of it and in some
measure erroneous
would impute guilt
to a man from
and call for punishment
to be inflicted
on him for an error
in judgment which
he as such he recedes
from and repairs?

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Though other
letters and not
this may have
been the letters
to which the
proceedings of the
Treasury referred,
yet this Letter
exists and serves
to show principles
and explain
designs

My Lord as to that state the exact state of
that letter, and the precise degree of rank which in the scale of estimation it held
upon the shelves of either floor of the Treasury Chambers
that is a question which it is neither important possible nor
at all material to me to find an answer. What
I complain of — what I regard as punishable is
not this or that letter considered in itself — but such and such a trace of designs
and the Letter — the foolish letter — no otherwise
than as evidence of the criminal designs. The
criminal designs, though not acted up on that letter
not so far at least as consistency required — were
however sufficiently manifested and betrayed even by that
letter — and acted up to most compleatly afterwards,
in the measure and to the degree found in
those which followed (upon) it.

# Criminality 3. Collateral circumstances.
Never were the eyes of a criminal more widely open
to the repugnance between the illegal act and the law violated by
it: never was greater part a more indefatigable perseverance manifested — never
was greater obstinacy display'd in the rejection turning a deaf
ear to all observation tending to the by which the illegality was
painted.

Identifier: | JB/121/435/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.
Date_1	1802-03-31	Marginal Summary Numbering	22
Box	121	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	435	Info in main headings field	Dispensing Power
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	Recto"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	F30
Penner		Watermarks	1800
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	001
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