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THIRD LETTER
TO
LORD PELHAM,
&c &c &c
On the Hulks and the "Improved" Prisons
IN CONTINUATION OF
THE COMPARATIVE VIEW
OF
THE SYSTEM OF PENAL COLONIZATION
IN NEW SOUTH WALES,
AND THE
HOME PENITENTIARY SYSTEM,
Prescribed by two Acts of Parliament of the Years 1794 & 1799
MY LORD,
My last concluded with a sort of half promise: I now proceed
to the fulfilment of it, and with as much punctuality
as if it had been a whole one. Sir—you are too good . . . . .
Not at all my Lord; I will be judged by the Printer, who
was the person I had in view. Indeed, Sir? - and nobody
else? - So you are not read, and it is upon this supposition that
you write? something like it, my Lord. THe reader I am
sure of is the Printer: the reader I am not sure of is the gentleman,
if there be such a one, who, on petty occasions like
the present, has it in charge to read and think for your Lordship,
or at any rate to read.
On the 19th of August, indeed your Lordship's own
"mind" was to have been "applied to the subject" - and
that "at all events." On the 19th of August, your Lordship's
own "endeavours" were to have been employed to
get something settled, and "settled" before the meeting of
"Parliament." Parliament met the 16th of November,
this is the 18th of December: magna otia coeli all the time.
Yet if Mr. Secretary Vansittart is to be believed, Lord Pelham
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xv hulk systems compared with penitentiary and new south wales systems / i penitentiary system / ii hulk system / iii n. s. wales system |
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