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* that this plan of the Duke of Portland's for crowding
Gaols and taxing Counties was not in every point of view
a new one, appears from a Memorial presented by the
Middlesex Justices to his Grace about 16 Months before, on the
subject of the State Prisoners committed to Cold Bath Fields.
The Memorial is printed at length in the "Papers presented
"to the House of Commons relative to his Majesty's Prison
"in Cold Bath Fields". Ordered b to be printed 18, Dec<hi rend='superscript'>r 1800. pp 78, 79.</hi>

"His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of
"Middlesex ... do ... humbly entreat Your Grace to take into
"consideration the difficulties under which they labour; which
"are yet farther encreased by the addition of so great a
"number of Prisoners of the above description" [State Prisoners]
"to those whom the House of Correction was originally
"intended to receive, and with which it is crowded to
"a great degree of inconvenience ....

"They also beg leave to observe, that a very great
"additional expence has been incurred, on account of Prisoners
"of the above description; which expenditure, as
"the various Burthens upon the County Rate, are already
"very severely felt , they are deeply concerned to be under
"the necessity of adding to the ordinary Charges of the Prison;
"but this Expence the Magistrates confidently hoped will
"be reimbursed to the County, on a fair statement of the
"several Particulars". -

From the so often mentioned posterior letter of his
Grace's, which I have had the honour to bring to light,
information in no small degree interesting may now be
derived by these same Magistrates. In May 1798 they
complain of the "crowding" of their Gaol with Prisoners
not intended for it, speak of inconvenience, assume (as
was but natural) that the inconvenience was, as such,
unintentional on the part of the Duke, and, in mentioning
it in that character, conceive that the consideration thus
submitted to that Noble person's will, in the character of
a motive, give birth in his Grace's mind to a determination
to grant the relief they pra pray for. Little did they expect
to see the day, & that so early a one, in which by a document under

Identifier: | JB/116/625/001 "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	625	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d28* / d28**
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	letter was never sent; see note 8 to letter 1747, vol. 7	ID Number	38158
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