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of the country, but all the paupers in the country in my hands. It being
essential that for responsibility's sake, the management should be by contract, par
entreprise — profit & loss — profit at any rate — being in or in partnership
with Government, for the account of the Contractor, if there be any man of adequate
talent & probity, whose fortune you would wish to make, any gratuitous
services, such as could be rendered by me in this country should be at hyour & his
command. My Panopticon was to have contained 2,000 prisoners, all of them visible
at all times by one man at one view. With the help of machinery from England
think of the profit extractible from that number of hands, not one of which need have
a morsel of bread till his task wasere done! For a Commercial Agent for such a purpose
as well as for every thing else that afforded a promise of usefulness to mankind
Bowring would be your man, of all men I ever knew, or can hope to know.
Criminal Code may be heaped upon Criminal Code, but without such an instrumen
belonging to it, no tolerably efficient one will be found in countries the population
of which is in the state in which yours is, & in this opinion I am far indeed from
being singular.

The other topic was the junction of the two seas. I forgot whether I did
not mention it to Bolivar in a former letter. Upon my mentioning it to his Agent
Echeverria of whom above, he informed me that it had not passed unheeded by his
Government, & that with a view to it, an individual whom he mentioned had in
Feby been sent from this part of the world to take surveys. He expressed no desire
about secresy: I know no reason why he should: I therefore break no trust in
making this mention of it to you. In answer to some hints of mine, he said the desire
was — to accomplish the matter in their own territory with their own capital
& if shape capital enough could not be obtained in it, then & not otherwise to

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	388a "a" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 388.	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5 / c6
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	g & r.turner
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward wakefield
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	copy of letter 2898, vol. 11	ID Number	4449
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