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Panopt. versus N S Wales
Among the amusements of early years, did it ever happen to
your Lordship to include the Peruvian Tales? The monster with
a head upon his shoulders was not a more an object of more
tender compassion to the headless nation, than your hapless correspondent
has discovered himself to have become, on this or that
occasion, to this or and that right honourable or otherwise dignified distinguished
personage — more of them than he cares to think of — on the score
of this humble, and as he thought innocent attempt, to sacrifice
a moderate and well-weighed portion of personal profit, upon the
altar of public justice. It was but t'other day that a gentleman in
high office — a most intimate friend of your Lordship's — with that
candour which was fitted to the occasion and the purpose — and that
superiority of intuition which is among the appendages of such
high office — was pleased, in conversation with a common friend,
to number this among my "flights": this simple one possessing of
itself a sufficient degree of eccentricity to ground a presumption
of as many more, as it might be convenient to give me credit for.
The gentleman had not then by any means made up his mind
upon my project, and of such his indecision the evidence of insanity
afforded by this flight of mine was — if not the only cause —
at least the only cause which it was found convenient to
speak of.... And must I then, my good Lord be made company for
the Margaret Nicholsons and the Hatfields? Must my reputation —
a very obscure one indeed yet in all other points a spotless one —
be sent to Bedlam, and with it my poor project, with the stamp
of the Parliamentary sceptre, twice imprinted, and still so fresh
upon it? Procedure, thus summary! score the secretum Judicis!
No commission issued — no Physicians, no nor so much as the
patient, heard! — Alas, my Lord! and is the offence inexpiable!
If in either the gentleman's official or his private calendar, disinterestedness
and a too poss passionate love of justice on upon
the list of nuisances and crimes, can not nine years spent
in disgrace and solitude be accepted as a sufficient punishment?
My good Lord! The key of the door which opens to the
foundation of Royal mercy is in your Lordship's hands. — Tell
me then my Lord, in pity tell me — by what submissions, if by any,
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