JB/116/561/001

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Letter 3

3d Jan 1802

XVI. Improved Prisons

grant their the relief they pray for. Little did they suspect expect
to see the day, and a day recurring occurring to soon that so early a one, in which
that so soon after when it would be established by a according to a document
by a document under the noble Duke's own signature, that the "crowding" plan
would prove to be was a plan adopted deliberately by his Grace, in
for a particular special purpose, to afford a pretence for his design of defeating the
object of an two Acts of Parliament; and that the inconvenience—an
inconvenience which it was now determined to multiply and
spread extend all over its all the Counties, was a result directly
in the contemplation of his Grace, produced by him, professed or at least professed to be intended to be produced, on
purpose, as a means of give effecting or giving colour to
that design plan of his for setting himself above Parliament.

The "expence" is another subject of their complaint. They
represent it as a heavy one being "very severely felt"; and,
so persuaded are they of the injustice of the measure proceeding by which
it is thrown upon their County, that they are "confident"
in their hopes of having it reimbursed to them—viz: by
Government. They may now see that this expence, that sat so heavy upon them— the
casual expence of resulting from the temporary maintenance of
a few State Prisoners, was but a feather in comparison
of the load—the double load—so soon after destined for their backs by
the same potentate: the annual and perpetual expence of maintaining Convicts
of all sorts instead of their being maintained from the funds
prescribed by Parliament, and the expence of building providing
another Jail or two, under under/to relieve themselves from the pressure of the "crowding"
provided by his Grace for this very purpose: the first an
annual expence, and according to his Grace's plan a perpetual one:
the other an expence in the shape of capital
many one paid one for all—of capital advanced:+ Little
did they suspect, that any expence which to their feelings was every thing,
was is nothing in the conception of this arbiter of their fate: that in the same proportion
in which in this estimate it was encreased, it was reduced in
the estimation of this Chancellor of the Exchequer Extraordinary of the
Exchequer, by whom a burthen is considered as annihilated when
it is thrown upon a wrong fund.

+ say, to begin with,
some £60,000, to £80,000
more, in addition to
the cost of this already now
established Gaol, over-
crowded already to the
degree of which they
complain thus heavily.

Identifier: | JB/116/561/001 "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	561	Info in main headings field	letter 3
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2 / f22**
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38094
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