JB/116/415/001

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Dispensing power

21 Apr. 1802

Quere if not superseded

Note
II. Commonality

The 2150 in the
recognized part of
the letter; no proof
of the intention of
giving none.

In the Among the words omitted out of this Extract

In the small part omitted out of this Extract, would
be found (I am inclined to think, as already intimated)
words giving 2150 as that number of transportable Convicts greatest
number the number alluded to in the letter by the description
of the greatest number of "the four last years
of peace":—but my application for to Mr Addington for the publication of this letter having been
together with other suppressed documents, not having been complied
with, I am reduced to speak of these from thus
to draw upon an uncertain memory, instead of referring to
black and white. Taking however this for the number / This answer being assumed Assuming this as the number
given it might afford at first sight a sort of
argument against the proposition that this letter had
for its object the defect of the Penitentiary establishment
or even the the cutting it out down below the proper
magnitude: especially as the number contracted for
was but 1000; and a subsequent letter from the Duke's
office gives me 2000.

But in a little consideration further closer view the force of this argument
will vanish altogether:—for
1. This number (supposing it 2150) is not given as in
this letter as the number of transportable Convicts for a to
be provided for in the Panopticon, but as the number to
be disposed of as therein in the manner so often mentioned: viz: divided between
N.S. Wales and the Gaols the Parliamentary transportation
establishment, and the Duke's establishment of the Gaols: no more than the
possible but unintended overflowings only of the Gaols Gaols being in appearance destained
for the Panopticon, at the time of writing this letter
at which time the Hulks as Your Duke (as your Lordship has) had overlooked
the Hulk establishment, which as soon as it had reinstated
itself in his memory, would probably have put in its
claim to these overflowings, if they had amounted to any thing
and

Identifier: | JB/116/415/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-04-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	415	Info in main headings field	dispensing power
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public	[[notes_public::"quere if not superseded" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	37948
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