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to you in the River Plata. They assure me that the force they are now sending
is necessary for the protection of private property, from being plundered at this crisis
by the miscellaneous population: if this be all they mean by it nothing can be more
less objectionable. Upon the whole the contrast between their wisdom & Spanish folly
is matter of universal admiration here.

My Letter to Colombia as above — an enormous long one — turned chiefly
upon two topics — the Panopticon plan of construction & Management for Prisons &c. &
the Junction of the two Seas. Being so well acquainted as you are with the Traité de
Legislation
&c. Panopticon can scarcely be altogether out of your mind: if it be, what you
will find in the Testimonial part of my Codification Proposal may serve to replace
it. Colombia having in her service in the rank of Colonel an Englishman of the name
of the name of Hall, a very superior man who is in high trust & favor there, that
part of my letter had for its object the engaging the Colombian Government to set on foot
not Panopticons by hundreds which is what the Prison Committee of the Spanish Cortes
recommended as you will see, to be done in Ultramaria as well as the Peninsula,
but one single one to begin with & Col. Hall to whom I also wrote to undertake the management
of it. In Portugal José Fernandez Thomaz was Commissary General
during the war: the best of all introductions to a management of the sort in question.
After looking over my English work in two volumes on that subject, José has promised
me that he will use his endeavours to obtain that employment if his Brother
Manuel, without whom he does nothing approves of it, which is what we little doubt
of. it. Of that part of my Letters to the two functionaries my chief purpose was — to
present to their view, the facts, the principal ones, public in the utmost degree of publicity,
from whence it might be seen, that it was not any doubt of the excellence of
the plan, but the personal vengeance of Geo. 3rd that caused it to be laid aside:
George 3d, but for whom Minister Pitt was about to place not only the prisoners of

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Identifier: | JB/012/387/004
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Box

012

Main Headings

Folio number

387a
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Image

004

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c1 / c2

Penner

richard doane

Watermarks

g & r.turner

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Paper Producer

edward wakefield

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

copy of letter 2898, vol. 11

ID Number

4448

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