JB/117/067/001

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To J.P. 2 Apr. 1798

Sir

The intended Penitentiary House Establishment being
retarded by the causes you are apprised of, if I
might be allowed a present sum of £10,000 – not over and
above the £1924,000 (which together with the
purchase money for the land it was intended I
should have had this summer for the building)
but on account of, that sum and to be deducted
afterwards from, that sum, I would engage (and I think
if necessary I could find collateral security) to
have erected and ready for use, within six months
after the receipt of the money, a temporary Penitentiary
House of wood, upon exactly the same a plan
in similar to that of the intended permanent one. The spot I have in view is a
spot that belongs to nobody: the licence to employ
it depends upon the City of London as conservators
of the navigation of the Thames, and it is
upon the event of my obtaining this Land (an
event which however I regard as probable) that this offer the proposal I am now submitting consequently
depends. In extent it the spot includes little
more than would be necessary for the site of the building
itself; with it some outworks for greater security: it is a small bank⊞ ⊞ the Kent side on this side of Charlton about 1/4 of a inch above the Sand wharf called Charlton Sand Wharf on the Kent side about midway between Greenwich and Woolwich without the situated
between the navigable part of the River and the embankment
wall. It is stands so high as not to bear grass, and not
to be covered but at spring tides: but by a ditch trench
with which it might easily be surrounded, the
situation of it might be rendered similar to that
of a ship at moorings: in a word to that of
the present Hulks. It would be accessible by water only:
with the land, it would have no communication. It has
not a house, I suppose, within a mile of it or more, except an
inconsiderable new built house close to the river which I have been told is public House.
From Lord , it is I suppose two or three times as far as the present Hulks are
now from which it is distant at least half a mile.

Identifier: | JB/117/067/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-04-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	067	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of letter 1321, vol. 6	ID Number	38684
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