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Letter 3d Observations

XVI Improved prisons 24
On pretence of forcing
removing the removal the mischief
this letter avows
the intention of
encreasing it.

Such, (Your Lordship sees) is the treatment the Duke of Portland gives to an Act of
Parliament, which he has examined and understood the object of it.

Your Lordship understood the plan — Your Lordship
Such is the plan for the professed to be by chalked out for Your Lordship
by Your Lordships most noble predecessor. such is
the folly Your Lordship has been in for these

Such then (Your Lordship sees) was the Duke his Grace's
of Portland plan? professed at any rate to be pursued
pursued or not pursued by his Grace pursued adopted or not
pursued adopted by Your Lordship it is for Your Lordship
. He was to "crowd" the "Country Gaols";
crowd them with Convicts designed forbidden by Parliament for to
another place; be sent there; — to crowd them till they were crowded to
such a degree that the removal crowded state of them
should have considered the uncrowding of them "absolutely
"necessary": and it so is by this alternate crowding and uncrowding
of the existing Gaols that somebody else — any body else that chose to be at the expense necessary? The only person in whose power it is What
in the abuse, the case of which constitutes that improvement pleased was to be forced to <add>omit bigger ones. — What in that case</add>
the "spirit" of which his Grave is this anxious
to ? — It is the too crowded state of the existing
Gaols. What is the course taken by his Grace for the
of this abuse? the crowding them still more The only person and the only person</add>
who could prevent the abuse of it would and whose duty it is whose duty it is to put an end to the grievances, and who could put an
in whose power it is to prevent the abuse is
and to it if he would, determines to and will not be forced
determines to encrease it that those who have no power may be can not be forced, may think
be forced by thus be forced this means to remove it. (a)

Would it not have been more manly and quite as safe
for his Grace to have said what certainly he has not
said — [+] Lord a case of our friends in any particular friends He
said nothing instead for a by , which the ground was
the ground functioned buying a for the prison, but when bought
it occurred to him that it ought profitable as the vicinity would be to his in the opinion of his
agents be profitable to <add> </del> it would not in his own prison not be pleasant to him to be
it made use of. I have in my afford no greater pleasure
than[+]

(a) Not in 3 separate
page

[+] This thing meant
not to go on: — Lord such
a one it will
be inconvenient to him:
he must not be obliged: he is
one of our best friends

His wish is that
the £12,000 public
money that has been spent
in the purchase may be
thrown away, together with
as much more as may be
[+] than that of making
agreeable to mis
necessary for misadministration. Which
he

Identifier: | JB/116/559/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	24
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	559	Info in main headings field	letter 3
Image	001	Titles	observations
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f22
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38092
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