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the whole island: who could answer for his not
consenting to charge himself with two or three
spots. Year after year he had gone through the
same sort of business gratis: who would answer
for his refusal to undertake for a portion of it,
for a price. Year after year he had done the same
sort of business without authority: who could say
that with or without ordinary recompense, he might
have accepted of that authority, the effect of which
could not but be to second in such a variety of
ways, his generous endeavours. Below-above-every
where- authority, even though it were without power,
is of use. Below, it commands information: above,
it gives a claim to notice.
Were these gentlemen, or either of them, so
much as consulted with on the choice?_ Nor that nei-
-ther. How could they have been? Under the auspices
of Lord Pelham- under the administration of gentlemen
on t'other side the wainscoat- places are made for
gentlemen, not gentlemen searced out for places. Is
it not so? a page or two will for demonstrate.
Would there have been any thing wild, spec-
lative, incongruous, so much as unaccustomed in
a choice guided by considerations such as above sug-
-gested? Let us look back a little. In the case of
Convicts Howard was the first investigator of the
system of abuse: Howard's was the hand first chosen
for the app hand first chosen for the application
of the remedy: I speak of the Penitentiary
-ment in its first intended shape. In a succeeding list
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correspondence |
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john herbert koe |
1800 |
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1800 |
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letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7, and note 4 to letter 1824, vol. 7 |
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