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Mr Bentham to Mr Thornston Esq. 1800.

Presuming on your disposition to afford the requisite assistance, to a
man who above two years ago appeared to you to have been hardly treated, and whose situation
has not since been mended by two years perseverance in the same course of injury, I take
the liberty of suggesting to a step, that appears to me likely to promote the end in view,
and that so exclusively that any thing more can not be done at present, and any thing less
will not be productive of any effect.

This is — to take the fittest opportunity for mentioning the matter to Mr. Long
in the House: - (for instance upon the occasion of the Thames Police Bill- Mr Windham's
Soldier's Children Establishment-or Mr Pitt's motions relative to the unvoted remainder of the
supplies) and then and there to give to understand in distinct terms - in a word by
Notice that at the commencement of the next Session, if the business is not settled before, a
Motion will be made for a statement of the steps that have been taken in the pursuance of
the Penitentiary Contract Act (7th July 1794) and for an enquiry into the causes that have
hitherto prevented the execution of that Act.

This being all that can be done, I will not attempt to trouble you with any
detail

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Identifier: | JB/116/390/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1800-07-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	390	Info in main headings field	negotiations of mr nepean and messrs long & king
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	cw 1797
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1797
Notes public	copy of letter 1576, vol. 6	ID Number	37923
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