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17 Letter 3d

240 penitentiary houses instead of one will, instead
of 72 times, be 7 times 72 times, that is 504 times,
as great as it need be. —

And do you mean seriously, Sir, to make me
believe, or to make any body believe, or do you
yourself believe, that according to any plan of mine
or any predecessor of mine, an expence 504 times
as great as that of your proposed penitentiary
house — aye, or a half or a quarter or a tenth
part of that expence will be, or in any case
would have been incurred ? — Most certainly not
my Lord. Of any such expence I do not take upon
me to say, that it was so much as intended:
though of that plan which approaches much
nearer to it than of any other example which
the history of public waste affords, the execution
was most indubitably intended. Far therefore be
it from me my Lord to undertake to maintain
that the execution of any such plan was ever
so much as intended: all I can pretend to say
is, that the intention of bringing about the
execution of a plan of that sort was professed:
and, for so saying, my warrant, the only warrant I
pre pretend to have for saying so, will presently
be in readiness to meet Your Lordship's eye. —
Even

Identifier: | JB/116/614/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	614	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d17
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38147
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