★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
J.B. to Treasury
18 Jany 1811
Letter II
Be the nature of the establishment what it may
no great advantage to it can reasonably be expected
from any such circumstances as that of a mask token of
disesteem imprinted cast in the character of him under/to whose whose
management it is entrusted placed.
In the year 1792, eighteen nineteen years ago, when
you first gave in your proposal for the establishment
1000 being the number stipulated for in your proposal,
it was our hope we hoped and and expectation, to find in
you qualities of all sorts—moral and intellectual—
adequate to the management of the whole. The nineteen
years that have elapsed since have indicated warned
to us the us of the danger that would be brought upon should bring on the
public by any government administration which should continue
to give so large a share of confidence. Proceeding
with the caution the necessity of which has been imposed
upon us by a fuller knowledge of your character
we now entrust you as your and even now not without
great hestitation venture to trust you with half that
measure of confidence of which your muddle up
had rather too with too little circumspection been
thought capable of being entrusted with.
There was a time when it was thought and
hoped and thought that you might have been trusted
with the whole. But that time is no more: and now
such as you have been proved to be by your conduct for these
last years, the half of that whole is quite as much as
the prudence so
necessary in our selection
will endure
our trusting you with
|
Identifier: | JB/117/277/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
|
1801-01-18 |
17 |
||
|
117 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
||
|
277 |
jb to treasury |
||
|
001 |
|||
|
correspondence |
1 |
||
|
recto |
d10 |
||
|
jeremy bentham |
|||
|
letter 2100, vol. 8 |
38894 |
||
