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for that object £45 a year per head has never been no expence has ever been thought
too great in Your Lordship's Office, any more than
in the office underneath: I mean so long as improved
Colonies have been the scene of it. But
reformation is another thing. As to the ought
and the ought not, these are speculative points
and may be left to speculatists. The fact is,
that money for this purpose is grudged, and to
such a degree grudged, as to prevent the issue of
it. If such be the fact, and (Your Lordship a
little farther on will see it is) in the most opulent
of all opulent Counties, what may it be
expected to be in the rest!? —

Grudged or not grudged, another fact is, is
must be confessed, that in some instances many more than I could <add>should have thought</add> the
money looked upon as necessary for this purpose has
been issued and prisons built accordingly: viz: these
improved prisons. (b) (b) Put Table from Nuld.

Improved prisons built, and what has been
the result,? In respect of reformation, separation
over-done, over-done in some many instances to the
degree of absolute solitude: in all of them, or at
least almost all of them, the influence of that
solitude at the same time disturbed at least, if
not utterly distroyed, regularly recurring associations.

In respect of economy, £1000 a year perpetual
rent, and for that £1000 a year £500 nexat profit - (neat in other respects) produced. Neat loss £50 per cent
of the rent: and to produce this loss — that is to reduce the

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	608	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d11
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		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	38141
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