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Bath 20th December 1792

I am extremely obliged to you, my dear Sir, for your letter,
but I assure you that you very much over-rate and
over-thank me for my feeble efforts in the cause in question.
I am certainly well-pleased that the invention should be
yours, because I think it does you infinite honour; but
had it been that of a perfect stranger, I should have
recommended it with the same zeal, being persuaded
that it's adoption would be a most important public
benefit. - au reste. I am utterly unable to divine when
and where I may have been fortunate enough to produce
the favourable improvising to which you seem to allude.

I shall be in town about New Year's Day, and will call
upon you immediately after my arrival, which indeed
I should have done equally, if I had not heard from you.
During my late tour I have seen some of our most
celebrated provincial places of confinement, and particularly
that at Gloucester, but the plan of none of them seems
to me to be in any degree comparable to yours. I confess
however that I have still my doubts whether,if your

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Date_1	1792-12-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	017	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	lord st helens	Watermarks	ja
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 880, vol. 4	ID Number	3318
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