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§8 Establishment increased a pretence for crushing
F.9. Duke of Portland to Lords of the Treasury. — 14 Octr 1799.

Pretends to have examined the Acts — puts a groundless interpretation on
them — confusion and inconsistency — Will not allow Panopticon any convicts
that can either be transported or kept in the Jails. it would check the imprisonment
in the Jails — Will not execute the Acts — because the expence would fall on government
yet proposes 2150 as the number.

Mr King having laid before me a Letter from Mr Long
of the 27th ulti<hi rend='underline'>e</hi> desiring, by command of your Lordships, to be
apprized of the number of Convicts, which the Panopticon proposed
to be erected by Mr Bentham, is intended to accommodate.
I have examined (b) the Acts of the 19th and 34th of his
present Majesty relative to the building of Penitentiary Houses
for confining and employing in hard labour, person convicted
of transportable and other Crimes. —

I understand the objects of those Acts to be, that such
Penitentiary Houses should be used principally as receptacles
for such transportable Convicts, as the several gaols of the
respective Counties cannot contain, from the time of their receiving
sentence, till an opportunity may offer for their being transported. (<hi rend='underline'>c)

With respect to the probably number of transportable Convicts,
no safer rule can be adopted, than by taking the greatest number
of the four last years of Peace: [though it may increase, +, yet
the increase yet th of live stock & will probably more than
counterbalance the difference.....] ] (d)

As to other Convicts, it will depend on the opinion of
the Judges who try them, what number of them it may be
proper to confine in the Panopticon: it is impossible to ascertain
with accuracy the number to which they may amount:
but I incline to think it would be very inexpedient to move
such Persons from the country Gaols, unless the crowded state
of those Gaols should render it absolutely necessary: for it
would naturally tend — not only to check that spirit of improvement,
which now so universally prevails, in the several
Counties.

Identifier: | JB/116/400/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1799-10-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	400	Info in main headings field	establishment encreased a pretence for crushing
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d14 / f41
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 1514, vol. 6	ID Number	37933
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