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a twelvemonth ago the Journals of both Houses as
low down as they were then to be bought. How
low that is I can not precisely say, not for the
occasion blowing over, I have not yet, to confess
the truth got the him. If got you could honestly
supply me with any that are not to be
bought I should be much obliged to you. A copy
of an unpublished fragment of a work which I thought then of publishing

on Parliamentary tactics on an occasion not
worth dwelling upon here, wh and which was the
shall follow you to Ireland, with another two others
which I will by the favour of you to present
to the speakers of the two Houses.

As to Mr Orde's Education-plan, it happens
oddly enough that I have not never yet seen. it. I
shall now immediately: and if should find any
thing to say upon the subject, as I probably shall,
the expression I have of your indulgence assures me leaves me little doubt of a
hearing. Do your want a plan of Education just now
or a plan of any thing else? These are my amusements.⊞ ⊞ One thing is pretty much the same to me as another; & it is well just as it is more pleasant to a man to write to some purpose than to none.

As the Panopticon book refers to the View of the
Hard Labour Bill, might it not be of use there should be a
few copies of this View in Ireland: the rather
as it fights the battles of the Penitentiary plan against
its rival transportation. If so, how many? & for speed
& certainty may I address them to you through the
official channel?

⊞and it is just as well for one to take a subject that will find readers, as one that will find

Identifier: | JB/117/048/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	048	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f15 / f16 / f17 / f18
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 716, vol. 4	ID Number	38665
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