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24 Nov 1802 Letter 3d

No 91, P. 41. "Few places of confinement can be under worse regulation
"than the New-Prison, . . . . The arrangement of the
"prison itself is such, as renders it impossible to prevent its being
"one of the most dreadful seminaries of vice and profligacy
"that can be imagined," (a) [In this respect, I should suppose as would not be bad as
worse nor better than the hulks: nor yet a great deal worse than the Cold Bath Fields</add></del>
and the last are together at some times, though not at all ] if it be time, as I suspect, without being able to affirm at to a , that the worst and the best are together at some times, though not at all times <p>No 10 2 Pp. 42,43. "Four years ago . . . . plan and estimate . . . . laid
"before the Court; the business, was postponed sine die, under the
"idea, that the County rate, already burthened in a great variety
"of ways, would be found inadequate without great inconvenience,
"to the additional expenditure of £4000. But may we not hope,
"if application were made, where applications well founded will
"never fail of due attention, that such <hi rend='underline'>relief would be obtained,
"as, without adding to the burden of the county-rate, would
"enable the magistrates to carry the plan into effect?<b) (c)

No 11 3. P. 44. "What then may not reasonably be expected from one,
"who certainly feels, as much as any man, the importance of
"restraining vice, and of improving morals, to the welfare of society.ca*
"It would be impossible, I verily believe, to expend from the
"public purse four thousand pounds in any way more beneficial
"to the community than that which is here pointed out. (c) <p>"* This testimony, it is humbly hoped, will not be consider'd
"as an instance of flattery to the great person here alluded to,
"but as a declaration, the truth of which, all to whom his
"character is known will readily confirm." (c) From one Any information to
this effect would at least be

On this occasion I must beg leave to put in a word
trouble your Lordship with a word in favour of this worthy
Gentleman Magistrate that I may not leave to accuse myself of having doing him</hi>
<add> </add> him into a . Considering what your Lordship
and I know about all that your Lordship the
might be sold I but I must for
intreat beg of your Lordship's candour to remember that he
was at the I protest to your Lordship most solemnly
the sort of concert or
better the gentlemen and me</p>

I come new my Lord to the second part of my text: viz that <add>according to of the that the of the the Holy Ghost that whatever
that as to be the a the offence the of the of is
Lordship <add> of the worthy man; that be
that

Identifier: | JB/116/573/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1	1802-11-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	573	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles	note (a)
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f33
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	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	38106
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