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3 Jany 1802 + Note *22 Letter 3 (1 (a) Note to p. 22

XVI Improved Prison
(a) That this plan of the Duke of Portland's taxing crowding
Gaols and taxing the Counties [by his own authority absolute
power] was not in every point of view a new one, appears
from a Memorial, of provided by the Middlesex Justice to his Grace about
16 months before, on the subject of the Note Answers committed
[by him with] to Cold Bath Fields. The Memorial is printed
at length in the "Papers presented to the House of Commons relating
"to the His Majestys Prison in Cold Bath Fields. Ordered to be
"printed 18 Dec<hi rend="superscript">r 1800. pp 78, 79.

"His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Middelsex ...
"do ... humbly entreat Your Grace to take into consideration the difficulties
"under which they labour; which are yet further increased by
"the addition of so great a number of Prisoners of the above description."
[State Prisoners] "to those whom the House of Correction was originally
"intended to receive, and with which it is crowded to a great degree
"of inconvenience" ....

"They also beg leave to observe, that a very great additional
"expence has been incurred on account of Prisoners of the above
"description; which expenditure, as the various Burthens upon the
County that are already very severely felt, they are deeply concerned
"to be under the necessity of adding to the ordinary charges
"of the Prison; but this Expence the Magistrates confidently hope
"will be reimbursed to the County, on a fair statement of the
"several particulars."

This From this which the so often mentioned posterior Letter of His Grace's, which
I have had the honour to bring to light,
information in no small degree interesting may now be derived by
from these same Magistrates. In May 1798 they complain of the
"crowding" of their Gaol with prisoners not intended for it by [otherwise] and speak of it as an inconvenience, it assume (as was but natural) that in that respect it was the inconvenience was, as such, unintentional on
the part of the Grace Duke, and, in mentioning it in that character, conceive
that the consideration thus submitted to him that noble personwill, in the character
of a motive, give birth in his Grace's mind to a determination to
grant

Identifier: | JB/116/560/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-01-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	560	Info in main headings field	letter 3
Image	001	Titles	(a) note to p. 22
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1 / f22*
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38093
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