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Rochefoucault – the first man – take him
for all in all – in that country at that time
moved in the Assembly the translation of
that work for the use of the appropriate Committee.
He was out voted by the jealousy of the
then famous Abbé Sieyes.

My p Proposal for the establishment of
a Penitentiary House by Contract, upon the
plan developed in the above mentioned work,
may be seen in the famous Report in
four 4 Volumes & made to the House of Commons
Ao 1797 and 1798 by the first
Committee of Finance. Chairman, the
late Lord Colchester Colchester, who had been bred
up by my father, his Mother being my
fathers second Wife.

It may be seen again (if I misrecollect
not) this same proposal of mine reprinted Ao 1811 in a Report

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made by a Committee got up by Lord
Sidemouth then Minister Sidmouth at that time your predecessor to whom had been committed the task
of extinguishing the odious system of
"Official aptitude maximized; expense minimized";
and, to the system of management by
Contract with the eyes of the world fully open to the execution
of it substituting the system of darkness
under patronage, the to What effect has long been since this long time past been visible.

Instead of so many hundreds of thousands
wasted in the production of an impenetrable Bastille
cost £1,000 per head has been the calculation
what the Panopticon plan would (as per Contract)
have cost, was a capital of £27,000
with an annual sum of £12. per
head during for the term of my life, reduced to 0
if continued in the management, reduced to 0
on and by my death.

In that Proposal it be may be seen
with how unexcepted a degree of compleatness
in the instance of the proposed Contractor,
interest was connected – say rather
identified with duty. I shall The Contractor would have
not much: the more I get, the better but for the counter the more he got, not
the worse would it have been but the better:
for not a farthing could he have got till he
had not made the whole to the county the whole of the saving as
above-mentioned.

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