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A No 2
Mr Long to Mr Bentham. —

Treasury Chambers 24th March 1801

Sir
Having laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majestys Treasury a Letter
from the Duke of Portland, together with sundry other Papers respecting the Contract for erecting
a Penitentiary House and maintaining the Convicts, I am commanded by their Lordships
to desire you will state, under what terms you are willing to Contract for building a
Penitentiary House for 500 Persons, + and for maintaining the Convicts, if the measure
should be resolved upon: and if, upon consideration of that proposal the plan should
be relinquished altogether, my Lords desire you will inform them || what compensation
you conceive yourself entitled to for your expenses and Loss of Time in preparing for the Undertaking.
I am Ac—

+ See Note to B below: No 3 — Mr. Bentham's Note in the letter written 28 Mar 1801

|| Their Lordships will have no such trouble. — They have no powers for any such
thing: — nor could have, without a petition from me to Parliament. — When I petition, it will be for an Address for the execution of the Law, not for compensation for the
breach of it. —

B. (Copy) No 4
Mr Long to Mr Bentham —

Treasury Chambers 25th March 1800.

Sir.
Having laid before the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury a Letter
from the Duke of Portland relative to the number of Convicts which the Panoptican,
proposed to be erected by you is intended to accommodate, I have received their Lordships
commands to acquaint you that the proposed building of a Panoptican is to be calculated to accommodate Two Thousand Persons. I am Ac.

No 5
Mr Benthams 2d Note in the above Letter, written the 28 March 1801

Three years ago the Committee of Finance assumed compensation, besides 1000
Prisoners: now, the idea is — to give 500 without compensation, or compensation for
the 500. But compensation is impossible. See my Evidence. — [as presented
in the 28th Report of the Committee of Finance Au 1748.

No 6
Mr Bentham's f Note on No 4. written 27 Aug. 1802.

This was in answer to a letter of mine written more than seven months before:
viz: on the 17th of August 1799: asking of Mr Long the number of Prisoners I was to
build for, that I might make preparations accordingly. This letter is the 7th in the
list of the documents, the publication of which is applied for by No 10 infra.

Identifier: | JB/116/391/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1801-03-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	391	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	1798 am
Marginals		Paper Producer	frances wright
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public	copies of letters 1619 and 1630, vol. 6	ID Number	37924
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