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21 Letter 3d

Would Your Lordship have supposed it? - It is
upon the very merits — the acknowledged or at any
rate the alledged merits, of the Penitentiary system,
in these its less perfect forms, that the hostility
to it in its more perfect form has grounded itself.
So well has the system succeeded in this and that Count Country, that for that very reason there
is to be none for England: so well has it succeeded
upon a small scale, that it is not to
be suffered to shew itself upon a large one scale: —
so well have the existing prisons succeeded at
an enormous rate of expence, that for that
very reason a still better prison is not to
be suffered to be built at a tenth a fifteenth
or a twentieth part of that expence. So peremptory
was the determination to cover the country with
prisons unthought of by Parliament, that
it is for that very reason it was determined not
to have the one prison, that had so long ago and
so repeatedly been prescribed by Parliament. —

The conclusion made by the patrons patrons
and organizers of the most improved of
all these improved prisons has been somewhat
different. Yes, my Lord: It is among the most distinguished
of its rivals, that the Panopticon plan
has ever found the most cordial of its well-wishers —
the most generous of its supporters. — Persons



Identifier: | JB/116/618/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 116.

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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

116

Main Headings

panopticon versus new south wales

Folio number

618

Info in main headings field

letter 3d

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d21

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

38151

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