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22 Letter 3d

Persons who (one might almost venture to affirm)
never saw the inside of a prison in their whole
lives — persons by much too high to have ever
bestowed upon any such low object any thing
that call be called a thought — persons who are
as much at home in "improved" prisons as
they are in "improved" colonies — it is by such
lovers of improvements, and by the lovers of
such improvements, that the penitentiary system
in its most improved form has been consigned
to "relinquishment", and the authority that prescribed
it to contempt. —

It was not my original intention,, my Lord, to have
attempted giving Your Lordship on the present
occasion any trouble on the subject of the official
letter, to which the plan thus alluded to has
been consigned: but, having gone thus far, it is
becomes se necessary for me I fear to transcribe
a part of it at least, on pain of seeing the above
statement exposed to the suspicion of being groundless,
and perhaps as to the charge of being unintelligible.
The letter then to which the determination
in question, or at any rate the expression
of it was consigned, bears date the
14th of October 1799: Signature that of the Duke of
Portland, at that time filling the high office Your Lordship

Identifier: | JB/116/619/001 "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	619	Info in main headings field	letter 3d
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d22
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	38152
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