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18 Letter 3d

Even as to the eventual amount of the expence,
intended or not intended, that the rule of three,
as above employed should, without any further
data be correctly sufficient, is more than I
would undertake to answer for: I would not
haggle for a few millions * * In prison architecture, Blackburn's plan for Battersea kin would perhaps not have been more than about 15 times as much as the Panopticon plan ,instead of the 20 or: no, my Lord, nor for a
few dozen millions. A point I can speak to
with more confidence, is — that the talents which
gave birth to that determination, or at any rate
to the professions made of it, are the very same
which the public is every day experiencing the
benefit of under Your Lordship's auspices: and if
the check which Your Lordship is thus fortunate
enough to possess, for the correction of any error
that may have unintentionally attached itself
to so unavoidably rough an estimate — if so
powerful a security against misrepresentation be
not yet sufficient, I would by leave to refer
Your Lordship to the still more resplendent splendid talents of
the late official sub-professor of political economy,
whose share in the glories of Mr Pitt's poor plan
is without dispute, and who on all agreable
occasions is so fond of "arithmetic and its calculations ". Industry houses upon the gallagher scale and

Identifier: | JB/116/615/001 "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	615	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d18
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38148
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