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Sept. 14
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-bourne, (whose son is was assured Chancellor of the Exchequer, is now Marquis of Lansdowne, and who, having been in the days of the his youth a personal of George the third, and in the years 1782 and 1783 had been Prime Minister) assured me assured me at the time I had on that occasion the King for my antagonist:[+] [+]1 (it has since appeared that his Majesty how and then used to try his hand hand at a letter in a periodical, of course under feigned signature.) thereupon came came a reply, in which the strain of contempt and indignation was still fiercer than before. I sent a copy of the two printed Letters to Mr Pitt with a private letter to himself. Lord Melbourne, who was then in opposition, and who though I was in with him, knew [+]2 [+]2 not, till the first of these Anti Ministerials was published, that I had written it, but had guessed at the author and received my confession, was in extasies with both of them, and made the most of them: — the was given up — Minister Pitt, who was coldness and lessness itself — whom I did not like, and in company with whom, a little before he came into office, I had passed some days with at a Country mansion of Lord Shelburne's Country , could of course especially after the above letters, have no personal kindness for me. But he had a magnanimity, with which the little mindedness little mindedness of his Royal master made a stiding striking contrast, and he shewed, on more occasions than occasions than one, he shewed the desire he had of giving the public country the benefit of some of the services, which, in his estimation estimation I was was capable of rendering to it. Not content with putting all the convict Prisoners, in the country England into my hands, at one time he was about to put all the poor, in the co of England into my hands. Intimation of this was This disposition had for its ground ground, the Panopticon book, to which you, Sir, have under your Paper, Sir, has have lately under honoured with so favourable a mention your paper,, and a system plan of for the Poor, which, in the year 1802, was translated into French by order of the Constituted authoritiews of Paris, as M. — I forget his name (Quenoy I believe — it began with a Q.) told me at the time I being then at Paris: By he, Maire of one of the 12 Arrondissements, and the person under whose direction it had been done. writing to Paris any body in Spain, who thought it worth while, might of course procure that French translation. I therefore forbear sending a copy in English, there being but one or two left. Mr. Pitts disposition on this subject had been notified to me by his right hand man (Secretary of the Treasury) Mr. Rose. I was to have dined
We were to have had a dinner on the subject, at Mr Rose's, Mr Pitt, Mr Rose, and I in a few days. But the day never came. There could be no doubt who it was that prevented it. When a paper necessary to the progress of the Panopticon Penitentiary scheme was presented to him for signature, he refused, and never could be prevailed upon to give it. This was after he had passed that of Parliament which had no other object. But my name had been kept out of the Act.
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