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Q.S.P. Westmr 23 Feb. 1798.

Sir

I understand from the Sollr Genl that the
Bill (the Tothill Fields Penitentiary Bill) is unexceptionable
– that the consent of the parties may
be dispensed with – but that the Bill is regarded
as an Inclosure Bill – and that as such it can
not be brought into Parliament this till next session, for want
of certain notices which in the such cases must be
and that this is also the opinion the Speaker, to whom the Sollr
has had the goodness to mention the business
of his own accord.⊞ ⊞ making 5 1/2 years
from the time of
my being ordered to
take my arrangements
at the end of which
commences I am thus doomed This then is a certain suspension
of the business for twelvemonth another year⊞ ⊞ For my own part
I do not perfectly
pretend why how it should be it is that
government is to should in a public bill be bound
by restrictions intended
only for individuals, for the sake of
parties who after all
are to derive no benefit
from them since do after
all they are to what any will part with
their rights: – but so it is
competent judges have
spoken, and return is my past
after a struggle
of 4 1/2 years. as the end
and at the end of it a prospect the brightness of which has over which
already so much delayed by experience of which period I shall have for my consolation
is but too much clouded by experience has already thrown in dark
the privilege of receiving the same effects under cloud
the same circumstances which hitherto have rendered
them delusive. Under these circumstances
pecuniary advances are not the greatest even if his pecuniary
sacrifices would be regarded by Mr Pitt as a fit transaction
I will venture to submitt to your consideration, Sir,
of the business. In this persuasion I will venture to submitt
and to beg of you to submitt to the consideration
of Mr Ptt, an expedient the adoption of which
would at least not be detrimental though it would leave the Public where it stands, would
afford me some relief, without expence to the public government
or cause of complaint to any body. Had my plan
taken place at the time originally intended, the existing
plan so far as the Hulks are concerned would have ceased long several years ago. The adoption
of the new plan has never been a secret to the
conductors of the old one: whatever may have been
the benefits of it, therefore already they have been in possession of these benefits
longer, much longer than the could naturallyhave expected.
There seems no reason why they should reap a profit from this
fresh misfortune coming upon the back of so many other .
A Mr Dun The death of a Duncan Campbell Esq.
and the sale of his effects I suppose Mr Campbell
the was

Identifier: | JB/117/072/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 117.
Date_1	1798-02-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	117	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	072	Info in main headings field	panopt. to rose
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public	letter 1309, vol. 6	ID Number	38689
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