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Letter 3
27 Decr 1802
3
The enquiry originated
not in the office.
Who was it In whose attention With whom did the enquiry originate?
With any of the gentlemen who under in your Lordships
direction office, under by one name or another, Secretary, Under
Secretary, Secretary, Clerk Law Clerk, Secretary's Law Clerk
Clerk, are so well paid for looking after these things? No
my Lord, the wretches might have been rotten, the whole
hulk-full of them, as, and at the rate at they were rotting, half of them which they were rotting would
have been by this time, before any of these Under
would have thought
it worth while or perhaps have
claimed to whisper a syllable into his ear of disturbing the sleep slumbers of the Subaldar
by so a single syllable whisper much as a whisper about what was passing in the
Black
Hole: in the Black Hole which exceeded as it has
been in mortality—eclipsed as it is in barbarity, as
much as the barbarity of a night is eclipsed by the barbarity
of months and almost years, will henceforward yield
in proverbiality to Lord Pelham's the Duke of Port and
Mr King's and Mr Baldwin's Hulk: the Hulk La Fortronic:
for such by a strange horrible catastrophes, happens to
be the denomination of this ever memorable scene
of official barbarity and negligence.
Identifier: | JB/116/584/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116. |
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1802-12-27 |
3-4 |
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116 |
panopticon versus new south wales |
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584 |
letter 3 |
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001 |
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correspondence |
1 |
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recto |
c1 / d3 / f42 |
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jeremy bentham |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7 |
38117 |
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