JB/116/618/001

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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.
Date_1		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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