JB/106/006/001

Click Here To Edit 8 Nov. 1793 1 Jeremy Bentham Esq:r to Evan Nepean Esq:r Under Secretary of State

On Oral and Secret Conversation to unlimited Distances - by Jer Bentham Esqr

Sir
Before the experiments are made public I must beg Conversation-Tubes for Unlimited distances.
indulgence for a few words relative to some political uses
not before mentioned that might perhaps be made of the Conversation
Tubes.

With regard to a communication between the offices
of the several Members of the Cabinet I saw no more than 1 Secrecy - in what instances might be material-
you appeared to do why any point should be made of secresy:but it was not for me to judge: In some Orders to a Military Station from
still less to pass a judgement that would have been irrevocable. In some other instances that circumstance may perhaps be not altogether a
matter of indifference.

1. Communication between both Houses of Parliament and 2 Houses of Parliament
the Horse Guards. The practicability of this communication (I
mean the facility of carrying on conversation at such a distances
even in a low voice) is pretty well ascertained by the experiments that
have been already made.

2. If the distance should not be too great (a point which might be compleatly
ascertained beforehand by experiments that might be made without in
impience of the purpose in the compass of my own garden) Communication (even immediate) between the Royal Residences and
the Horse Guards.

3. Communication between the War Office and the Tower. This 3 War-Office (to the Tower)
if necessary, might be through intermediate stages.

It is I believe unprecedented, and would probably be unpopular,
that Westminster Hall should be habitually surrounded with 4 Courts of Justice
guards. It isseems perilous however at all times, and particularly in such as

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Date_1	1793-11-08	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings
Folio number	006	Info in main headings field	jeremy bentham esqr to evan nepean esqr under secretary of state
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	sir samuel bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	sir samuel bentham	Paper Producer
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