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Police Revenue Bill
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Penitentiary
Suspecting Apprehensive from the length of this interval that
had elapsed since the impress made of the that same
above station attended of into the hands of Mr Bentham
that list whatever might have been the views in which with
originally issued, a maturer consideration
might have placed the expediency of the measure
in a less favourable light. Your Committee was
previous to any exy examination of Mr Bentham
were desirous of obtaining what lights
might be obtained obtained from undistracted
questions respecting the completion of this business.
Accordingly Mr Colquhoun have come been
before Your Committee to be examined several times for the other purposes
above stated, they even took the opportunity of
inquiring whether what were might be the sentiments of
that gentleman in regard to a plan which
from the reception given to it by authority, as well as
from the nature of it compared with the nature of
his functions and ... would not well fail to be supposed
to have escaped from his notice have come under his cognizance. Mr Colquhouns To The
answer was as no less satisfactory as it was simple: that
to Your Committee as may it was honourable to the quarter person from
whom it came - That Mr Colquhoun
he himself had had a plan relative to the same
object - that after his plan had been matured
and completed, that Mr Bentham's plan fell into his
hands: that he found in it every idea that had
occurred to himself - that he found in it many several
that had not occurred to himself - that he approved
of all of them - that he regarded the
Plan in toto as adapted in an eminent degree
to the compleatly adapted fulfillment of its
purpose: and that he had no soner seen this of Mr
Bentham's, than he gave up all thoughts of prosecuting
his own. By way of fixing the views pointing the attention of
Your Committee and shewing ... what it was his view had
in view which speaking of Mr Bentham's plan, he produced and by order of Your Committee left with them a paper
paper, which though printed does not appear to have been published in which the principal factors of Mr Bentham's plan are delineated in terms little varying in substance from those of the suggested Draught copies of which as stated had been in from the Draught
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Identifier: | JB/150/340/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150. |
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150 |
panopticon versus new south wales; police bill |
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340 |
police report |
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002 |
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jeremy bentham |
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