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by the substitution of a better has been
on sale among the Booksellers ever since
the year 1791 or thereabouts under
the name of Panopticon or the Inspection
House.

A ray of hope, how faint so ever
having been called forth by this enquiry,
it occurrs to me, that by it to the high functionary
in question it might be at any rate a
gratification to curiosity some little information,
which is not to be made from Booksellers,
may, in the character of a gratification
to curiosity at any rate, be not
altogether unacceptable.

The system of punishment therein
proposed and developed was adopted by
Pitt the second, approved with as much
warmth as his the cold and haughty nature
of whose

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of that Minister was susceptible of, embraced
with enthusiasm and trumpeted in
Honble House by Lord Melville the first
as the Debates of the time show.

Aº 1794 An Act was accordingly passed
for the purpose of giving execution and effect
to it, and a tract of land at Milbank
half a mile in extent length, one part of which
the existing Penitentiary is erected, put into
my possession in consequence.

Had it depended upon Mr Pitt,
Lord Melville (at that time Mr Secretary
Dundas) and Mr George Rose, cum – in the
first place, all the Prisoners in the country
would have been placed under my management;
in the next place all the paupers
in the country: and for this plan of mine, Mr
Pitt and Mr Rose (such was the magnanimity
of these men) gave up a plan of
their own which they had brought before
Parliament.

Identifier: | JB/011/357/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	357	Info in main headings field	jb to peel
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	4054
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