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D.L.P. 8 Augs, 1795

Sir
Permit me to state to you the light in which
I have all along understood the matter now in doubt:
should Mr Pitt, after calling to mind the intervening incidents if in the opinion of Mr Pitt, it can not
in justice to the public be understood in that light,
I submit to his decision without reserve.

The basis of my Proposal was what I then understood
to be the full price - for a thousand prisoners, £27,000. Give me, said I, that price
for the first year, every year after I will do the business
at a reduced price [£12,000]. [Expense of
building I take upon myself.]

Requiring Mr Campbel's price for one year, but
for one year only, what idea could I have that
my representations should be expected to refundaccount for a
single penny of it, any more than that MrCampbels
representations should refundaccount for a the allowance made for
to him?his for the price
received by him? What if I had required the same price for
half a dozen years, or all along for the whole term?
Could I suppose that I was to fare the worse for making
the reduction abatement so much the sooner?

MrCampbel's first price was £38 a head:
[=£ 38,000] There more were manyreasons, why afterin my instance the first price
should exceed the subsequent one, still more given in his, and that without adverting to the building. After the first
year Furniture and clothing & will have been provided the advantage of the labour too may be reckoned upon might expect to become productive: for
the first year very little or nothing could can be depended upon on
that account score.

Further businessIt could not surely be expected supposed that I meant to
keep up the establishment for nothing any year: still less this first of heaviest of
all years. What less then could I be supposed to expect than the whole of the very sum I was requiring for that purpose.

Identifier: | JB/115/120/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 115.
Date_1	1795-08-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	115	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	120	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 1077, vol. 5	ID Number	37495
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